I know that right know the uppermost thought in your mind is “How is Joe Biden doing” and “I hope he’s raising enough money to build a presidential library to convey his legacy of pardoning major criminals and family members with an autopen”.
Bad news though, it seems like it’s hard to turn influence into cash when you have no more influence.
In filings with the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Biden’s library foundation revealed that it had not received any new donations in 2024, the final year of his presidency. The foundation was instead seeded entirely with $4 million left over from his 2021 inauguration. The library foundation declined to say what it had raised in 2025. It said that Mr. Biden was only now beginning to actively raise money.
Actively is doing a lot of heavy lifting when it’s applied to a guy who falls asleep in the middle of falling asleep.
Still, Mr. Biden’s foundation told the I.R.S. this year that it expected to bring in just $11.3 million, total, by the end of 2027.
How? Why? Where? Who wants to donate even one ocher cent to a project that has all the appeal of its namesake sniffing your hair. Still considering that Biden’s autopen wielders have set a goal of $11.3 million for 2027, but don’t want to close how much they raised in 2025, that means it’s not even in the 7 figures, and you can revise it downwards from there.
That would be far below the pace set by other recent presidents, and far less than the $200 million that Mr. Biden’s aides say they want to raise eventually.
Have they considered out of the box ideas like romance scams, crypto or male prostitution, because nobody is giving $200 million to this thing. Not even 200 million Japanese yen. Or 200 million Zimbabwe Mugabebucks. Or whatever combo of cocaine, dollars and fossilized oil chips Venezuela is using for currency this minute.
John Morgan, a longtime Democratic donor who was one of Mr. Biden’s top bundlers, said he would not give “a penny” to the former president’s library, citing poor treatment from Mr. Biden’s staff.
“The Biden staff, they ruined any type of good library for him,” Mr. Morgan said. “He’ll be lucky to have a bookmobile.”
Just add ice cream and it’s perfect.
