The moment Biden referred to came during a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland over the weekend when Trump was praising his wife and then said, as the audience applauded: “Oh, look at that, Mercedes — that's pretty good.” .
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Myers played this clip before Biden appeared on the show, mocking Trump for apparently forgetting Melania Trump's name. But Trump was addressing Mercedes Schlapp, a former White House adviser, whose husband Matt Schlapp, president of the American Conservative Union, is hosting the conference, according to the former president's spokesman, Stephen Cheung. “The clips were taken out of context by dishonest people,” Cheung said.
However, Trump has in the past misspelled Melania's name on Twitter as “Melanie.” During his deposition in the defamation case filed by E. Jane Carroll Trump mistakenly identified Carroll's photo as Marla Maples, his second wife. A jury found that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll in the 1990s, and a separate jury ordered him to pay $83.3 million for defaming her.
Biden joined Myers to celebrate the late-night show's 10th anniversary, a decade after he appeared on the show's first episode in 2014 when he was vice president. This is Biden's fourth appearance on the late-night talk show since becoming president. He was a guest on Jimmy Fallon in 2021, on Jimmy Kimmel in 2022 and on The Daily Show in 2023.
The audience is important to Biden, who relied on strong support among young voters to defeat Trump in 2020 and needs them again despite polls showing disillusionment among that generation. But he backtracked when asked about his agenda for 2024. “The 2020 agenda is to finish the job,” he said.
Dark Brandon strikes again.credit: @joybidden/X
Myers asked the president about the “Dark Brandon” meme that his younger aides have been promoting online, an elaborate version of the president meant to make him look cool and stylish. When asked if he enjoyed the meme, Biden quipped, “No, I'm very upset by it,” then put on Ray-Ban sunglasses.
When Myers pointed out that many on the political right had embraced a bizarre conspiracy theory that he and Taylor Swift were “in cahoots,” Biden joked: “Where do you get this information? It's classified. This is classified information.”
“But I'll tell you, she endorsed me in 2020,” he quickly added.
