plummeting approval ratings during the opening monologue of his Monday night episode. “I read that Dr. Fauci plans to retire by the end of President Biden’s term,” said Fallon, 47, before quipping: “Yep, then everyone turned to Biden like, ‘Is there anything you’d like to announce too?” The joke coincides with a recent poll that found nearly two-thirds of Democratic voters (64%) want the party to pick a different candidate for the 2024 presidential race, while more than three-quarters of Americans (77%) say the country is moving in the wrong direction.
Meanwhile, 13% say that the US is on the right track, the fewest since the depths of the Great Recession more than a decade ago.Nonetheless, Biden, who is the nation’s oldest-ever president at 79, has repeatedly said he intends to run for re-election and even snapped at a reporter last week for suggesting that his party wants him out after just one term.Elsewhere in his monologue, Fallon lampooned the Commander in Chief’s controversial fist bump greeting with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman during last week’s meeting.“Biden said that wasn’t a fist bump, that was me trying to punch him as hard as I could,” the comic quipped, lampooning Biden’s advanced age.
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