Lucas: Biden looks weak to the world

You know you’re in trouble when both former Joe Biden sycophants Stephen Colbert and Emmanuel Macron dump on you in the same week.

Colbert, the frequently unfunny late-night show comedian and French President Emmanuel Macron, a Charles De Gaulle wannabe, both turned on Biden, a president they both once admired at the same time.

Colbert mocked Biden, 80, for his gaffe-laden comments to NBC’s “Today” show host Al Roker during the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll.

After Roker asked if he planned to run for re-election, Biden stumbled around and then said, “I’ll either be rolling an egg or end up being the guy who’s pushing them out” — whatever that means.

Colbert then joked about Biden being “mentally fit” to run again.

It may have been funny, but Roker got more out of Biden than the reporters who cover the White House. Biden does not hold press conferences.

The Macron break with Biden over Taiwan and America’s role in Europe was much more serious.

Following a Beijing meeting with Chinese  President Xi Jinping — during which the Communist Chinese practiced an invasion of Taiwan, Macron said it was wrong for France and Europe to side with the U.S.

“The question Europe needs to answer,” Macron said “is it in our interest to accelerate (a crisis) over Taiwan? No. The worst thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the U.S. agenda and a Chinese overreaction.”

Macron also called on the European Union to reduce its dependence on the U.S. in order to avoid becoming a vassal of the U.S. Instead he proposed that Europe become “a third force, alongside Washington and Beijing, which was De Gaulle’s pipedream following World War II.

While Macron was criticized for his comments by other European leaders, his message to Biden was clear. And that message is that France does not have Joe Biden’s back or the back of U.S. when it comes to Taiwan.

And this is coming from the leader of a country that was saved by U.S. intervention in World War One and World War Two.

It would have been refreshing had Biden called Macron to tell him to visit Normandy Beach where 10,000 American soldiers are buried, killed in the expanded Normandy invasion to free France from the clutches of Nazi Germany.

Of course, there was no reaction — no comment or phone call — from Biden, either before, during or following his visit to Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.

It was just another humiliation from another foreign leader who has lost all respect for Joe Biden, a loss of respect that began with his disastrous, botched and deadly abandonment of Afghanistan, his war on domestic fossil fuel, his insane open borders policy and massive intelligence leaks.

Biden in effect has no world leaders to call—if indeed they would take his call. Nobody fears him.

You may dislike him — and there is a lot to dislike — but Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if Donald Trump were president.

Nor would Putin have arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on phony espionage charges. If he did on Trump’s watch, Trump would have had him freed by now.

Biden is the Rodney Dangerfield of the American presidency. He gets no respect.

Biden does not even talk with China’s Xi Jinping, who is on the verge of invading Taiwan and starting a major war. Nor does he have the seriousness of purpose to tell Xi Jinping to stop shipping over the ingredients of fentanyl to the Mexican cartels who sending it through open borders to kill thousands of young Americans.

Instead, seeking friends, he made a pit stop in Northern Ireland to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the peacekeeping Good Friday Accord, which he had nothing to do with, before visiting his ancestral home in the Irish Republic.

No doubt the 1.9 million people in Northern Ireland were pleased.

The 1.9 million illegal immigrants (not counting the getaways) President Rodney Dangerfield invited into the country in fiscal 2022 are also pleased.

Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.