Rambling Joe Biden goes on bizarre rant after facing questions about state of economy

Joe Biden went on a bizarre rant against the press after struggling to answer questions about a blowout jobs report that has irked markets today.

The 80-year-old President was making a speech about data that showed employers added 336,000 jobs in September, a robust gain despite interest rates and fears of recession.

Speaking in the White House, Biden touted the strength of the economy, but after his remarks appeared to come unstuck.

And, after being asked about Donald Trump backing Jim Jordan to become the new House Speaker and about the construction of the Mexico border wall, Biden stopped and bemoaned the “negativity” of the press pack.

“I gotta choose my words here: You all are not the happiest people in the world, what you report,” he said.

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Biden told the reporters: “I mean it sincerely - it gets more legs when you report on something negative. I don’t mean you’re picking on me, it’s just the nature of things.

“You turn on the television, and there’s not a whole lot about 'boy saves dog as he swims in the lake' you know? It’s about 'somebody pushed the dog in the lake'.”

Biden then says he “gets it”, pauses for five seconds and meekly says: “If you just listen to what’s going on around the world, there’s reasons for people to be concerned.

“There’s reasons for people to be concerned about what’s going on with Russia - to be concerned about what’s going on in other parts of the world.”

The President then says: “I think that the American people are smart as hell and know what their interests are. I think they know they are better off financially than they were before - that’s a fact.

“All that data, all that polling stuff shows that they’re more positive about the economy then they’ve been, more positive about their jobs, et cetera.

“I just think, let me put it this way: If you just watch what happened last week in the Congress, how excited are you gonna be about much of anything? Anyway…”

In fact, according to a CNN poll in August, 51 percent of Americans think the economy is still in a downturn and getting worse.

And in a recent ABC poll, only 30 percent of voters approve of Biden’s handling of the economy.

It comes after Biden claimed he “can't do anything” to stop the new construction of a Mexico border wall.

Yesterday it emerged that the President waived 26 federal laws in order to greenlight the construction of a new wall along the southern border in Texas.

Friday’s report from the Labor Department also showed that the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.8%, not far above a half-century low.

The job market has defied an array of threats this year, notably high inflation and the rapid series of Fed interest rate hikes that were intended to conquer it. Though the Fed’s hikes have made loans much costlier, steady job growth has helped fuel consumer spending and kept the economy growing, defying long-standing predictions of a forthcoming recession.

When asked whether he believes the wall could work, Biden replied bluntly: “No.”

“In the meantime, there’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated for - I can’t stop that,” he told reporters in the White House.

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