A new Rasmussen Reports survey finds 48% of respondents prefer Joe Biden’s tenure as president, while just 40% said Donald Trump is doing a better job.

President Trump mocked ex-President Joe Biden for only giving speeches that lasted “a matter of seconds” — except for one time where he claimed Biden was “high as a kite,” Mediaite reports.

Said Trump: “It would be very short —although the one time they had him spruced up pretty good, remember? he was high as a kite… He was floatin’ he was up there, way up.”

Hunter Biden estimated in a new interview that he is in debt to the tune of up to $15 million, and admitted that “I have no idea” how to pay that amount back, the New York Post reports.

Said Biden: “Nobody’s riding to the rescue for Hunter Biden. My dad, you know, entered the presidency as the poorest man to ever take the office. And he left the presidency as the, you know, not poorest, I mean, he’s fine, but he has no, we have no generational wealth.

“Former President Joe Biden has raised only a small fraction of the money needed to construct a presidential library, leaving uncertainty about when a library might be built and its viability as a stand-alone project,” the New York Times reports.

“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.”

Former President Joe Biden delivered a strong critique of his successor, arguing to a room of supporters that President Donald Trump has “taken a wrecking ball” to democracy, CNN reports.

Said Biden: “I knew Trump was going to taking a wrecking ball to the country, but I had no idea, I have to admit, I didn’t know there was going to be an actual wrecking ball.”

At times during the remarks, Biden addressed Trump directly: “You act in a way that embarrasses us as a nation, quite frankly.”

Andrew Sullivan: “There was something perfect about the Supreme Court’s review of President Trump’s tariff spree the week Dick Cheney passed away. What the court was weighing, after all, was Cheney’s core legacy: the limitless executive power now claimed by Cheney’s Frankenstein monster, Trump.”

“In that sense, Dick Cheney pioneered the Trump presidency. Without Cheney and Addington, no Trump and Vought. Cheney was never a constitutional conservative; he was always an extremist, a pioneer of an elected, unaccountable, and secret monarchy that has reached its zenith in the GOP today. His attempt to cast himself in recent years as some kind of principled, old-school constitutional Republican is classic Cheney: i.e. shameless misdirection, calculated spin, and a big fat lie.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom told ABC News that former President Joe Biden will go down as “one of the most successful presidents in the last century.”

Said Newsom: “I will defend that to my grave.”

Greg Sargent: “The left-leaning Roosevelt Institute is releasing a major new report Tuesday — with input from nearly four dozen former senior Biden officials — that seeks to diagnose the administration’s governing mistakes and failures.”

“One of its most compelling conclusions is that the Biden administration seemed reluctant to engage in ‘picking the fights worth having’ and sometimes took refuge in incremental policy gains due to a self-limiting ‘risk aversion.’”

“After Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance last year his team fell into a civil war, with longtime aides insisting he was fine and others — including his chief of staff and Cabinet members — saying he should consider exiting the presidential race, a new report by a GOP-led House panel says,” Axios reports.

“The report, released Tuesday, is the first time most of Biden’s top aides have gone on the record to respond to questions about the former president’s declining health, and what aides did to obscure it from the public.”

New Yorker: “Karine Jean-Pierre feels that Democrats were so mean to Biden that she is becoming an Independent.”

“Since Donald Trump entered the White House nearly nine months ago, most Democrats have wanted Joe Biden to stay on the sidelines — and the former president has mostly obliged,” the Washington Post reports.

“But behind the scenes, the lifelong politician is uneasily adjusting to a quieter, lower-profile life and remains bitter about being pushed to drop out of the 2024 race,”

“Biden remains a voracious consumer of news and regularly debates with his small team of advisers in Wilmington, Delaware, on whether to weigh in on Trump’s latest actions and statements — especially the direct, often unsubstantiated attacks on Biden in settings including an address to the United Nations and a rare gathering of military generals.”

Former President Joe Biden is now receiving radiation therapy for his prostate cancer, ABC News reports.

Three people familiar with the Biden pardon process told NOTUS that former FBI Director James Comey “was never seriously considered for a pardon.”

“But two of those sources said that Comey did initially come up briefly in discussions by a tight group of high-ranking Biden aides after it was floated by an outside advocacy group.”