“He’s doing okay,” Dr. Biden said in a new interview on the daytime talk show.

Jill Biden tells The View Joe Biden wouldn’t be fit for 2nd term after his cancer diagnosis

"He's doing okay," Dr. Biden said in a new interview on the daytime talk show.

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- Jill Biden told* The View* that her husband wouldn't be fit for a second term after his cancer diagnosis.

- Dr. Biden also provided an update on her husband's health.

- "He's doing okay," she told the daytime talk show cohosts.

Dr. Jill Biden has opened up about husband Joe Biden's fitness for a second term in office following his prostate cancer diagnosis.

In a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday with the cohosts of *The View*, the former first lady gave a health update on her husband's cancer, and said that she doesn't think he'd be able to serve as president for a second term following his diagnosis with the disease in May 2025.

"Do you still think he would've been in a good place to serve as president for another four years, until he was 86?" cohost and former Donald Trump White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin asked after the cohosts discussed President Biden's health amid his widely criticized June 2024 debate performance against Trump.

"Not from what I know now," Dr. Biden replied, referencing her husband's cancer. "Who knew? It was so shocking to get a cancer diagnosis." Jill Biden was on Tuesday's episode to promote her new memoir, *The View From the East Wing*.

Jill Biden on 'The View'.

Biden admitted that "our whole life has changed now," again calling her husband's stage IV prostate cancer diagnosis "shocking."

Earlier in the interview, Biden gave an update on her husband's condition, telling the cohosts, "He's doing okay," though she lamented how difficult it is to watch him endure the disease.

"It's hard, it's stage IV, it's in his bones," she explained of her 83-year-old spouse's health. "He's keeping up his schedule, he's going to D.C. on Amtrak. A couple times a month, he's speaking at Democratic rallies, he's writing, he's active, he's Joe!"

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She also praised their "amazing medical team" and said that, while the couple got annual physicals, they didn't detect prostate cancer in her husband due to guidelines that suggested men shouldn't get screenings after the age of 70.

"It does have to change. All you men, I'm telling you, you need to pay attention to your health," she urged. "If you're having a problem, don't just say, 'Oh, I'm going to look at this later.' Do something about it. That's my personal advice. Your body is saying something."

Griffin also brought up questions about President Biden's age, inquiring if there was a "change [Jill] had a blind spot to it" as he prepared to take on Trump in the 2024 presidential election, before bowing out of the race following the debate and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place.

Joe Biden at the White House in 2023.

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"You're saying many aides saw this? No one ever came to me and said, 'Jill, Joe's aging' or something's wrong.' So, when I saw that, I mean, no doctors came to me and said that," she maintained of reported warning signs about her husband's cognitive abilities after the debate. "When all Americans saw that moment on TV at the debate, I mean I was frightened out of my mind because I thought, 'My God, he's having a stroke.'"

She said that doctors cleared him after the debate, and that he was fit enough to do three more live events that night without issue.

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Biden also recounted a profane reaction her husband had as he was walking away from the debate: "I'm not going to say it on morning TV, [but he said a version of] 'I really messed up, didn't I?'" she remembered. "And I said, 'Yeah, Joe, you did.'"

Following the president's performance at the 2024 debate, many figures publicly called for him to bow out of the race, including George Clooney and *The View* cohosts Sara Haines and Griffin.

*The View* airs weekdays on ABC.

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