Hunter Biden has caused quite a stir with what he said about politics in America right now. He appeared on the Wide Awake Podcast not too long ago, and when the host brought up extremism and asked if everyone should calm down a bit, Biden had a different take that caught people’s attention.
The podcast host, Joshua Rubin, thought maybe both political sides should ease up on the heated talk about extremism. But Biden didn’t agree with that idea at all. He thought that way of thinking wouldn’t help anything and shared his own views, which have gotten a lot of people talking since then.
“I’m going to get myself in trouble for saying this. No, we need to turn the temperature up,” Biden said while on the show, as per NY Post. He went into more detail about why he feels this way, explaining, “I do not believe that we are going to get to the bottom until we get to the bottom. And I want to get to the bottom faster rather than through this slow kind of process of just being picked apart, a death by a thousand cuts here.”
He’s calling for Democrats to stop holding back
Biden made it very clear that he wasn’t talking about anything violent. He stressed that he definitely didn’t mean violence at all when he said those words. What he actually meant, he said, was “what I mean by turning the temperature up is we need to speak truth to power.”
Then he started pointing fingers at people in his own political party. He said, “We need more people in my party, in the Democratic Party, more people in elected positions or in positions of power, or the talking heads that get paid to go on MSNBC [now MS NOW], they need to start talking about this as it is, not as a conjecture about whether or not the Supreme Court [sic] and this debate.”
Biden didn’t hold back when it came to calling out people in the media either. He went after Jake Tapper pretty hard, saying Tapper was having text message conversations with President Donald Trump. According to Biden, “You have people like Jake Tapper who are having hardball discussions with Donald Trump over text. Like, what the f— are you talking about, man? That’s not journalism. That’s a complete and utter abdication of responsibility as a journalist.”
He brought up other personalities too, like host Abby Phillip and political commentator Scott Jennings. Biden wasn’t happy about how these people just repeat political talking points on television. He said Jennings “goes out there, and he says, just parrots the talking points of the administration. And everybody does that, has done that in the past, but not when they’re parroting what are verifiable lies.”
What this interview really shows is that there’s a lot of disagreement inside the Democratic Party right now about what they should do in response to everything happening in politics. There’s also debate about how news organizations should be covering all of this.
Biden thinks that rich and powerful people are taking over the media world, and he believes this is changing the way news gets reported and talked about. His words are coming out at a time when his father has been speaking out about dangers facing democracy, and while there’s been talk about problems between top Democratic leaders.
Published: Nov 17, 2025 03:15 pm