After Nancy Pelosi spearheaded the Democratic attempt to dissuade her husband from running for president in 2024, Jill Biden disclosed that she and Pelosi are still at odds.
Prominent Democrats, including Pelosi, publicly called for Joe Biden to resign following his disastrous June 2024 debate against Donald Trump, in which he was unable to put together meaningful words.
The 74-year-old former first lady claimed that the treachery was both public and private, since Pelosi, 86, encouraged him to leave behind the scenes in July 2024.
While Biden and Pelosi had just made amends, Jill claimed she had not been able to do the same in an interview with the Wall Street Journal regarding her forthcoming memoir.
In January, the former president and Pelosi met in person at the Kennedy heiress Tatiana Schlossberg’s burial.
Jill gave her husband credit for kindly getting up from his pew to shake her hand during the Mass’s “sign of peace” ceremony.
However, Jill pointedly disclosed that she hadn’t approached Pelosi when given the same chance to make amends only a few feet away.
“I haven’t really seen her to reconcile with her or not.” Jill remarked, “I didn’t even see her in the church.”
Jill has not extended forgiveness to Pelosi or made a special effort to reconcile with the former Speaker of the House.
Since then, Jill has released her memoir, View from the East Wing, in which she considers Biden’s presidency and its effects on their family. She is promoting her book this morning on MS NOW.
On May 3, 2024, Joe Biden gives U.S. Representative and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a ceremony held at the White House in Washington, D.C.
Given Joe’s recent cancer diagnosis, the former first lady is adamant that she’s prepared to move on: “That’s what I’ve learned through this cancer diagnosis … Life’s so short.” Why endure all of the suffering and rage? I mean, get over it. Let’s proceed.
From his time in the Senate in the 1980s to her ascent to the Democratic leadership of the House, Biden and Pelosi collaborated closely for decades.
During the Obama administration, the two formed a close political alliance and worked together on significant legislation while Pelosi was speaker and Biden was vice president. Their families remained close as members of Washington’s Democratic elite.
However, in a significant turning point following Biden’s disastrous debate against Donald Trump in June 2024, Pelosi refused to declare her support for him, saying that the President should determine whether or not to run. Time is of the essence, so we’re all urging him to make that choice,” Pelosi stated on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Four months after leaving office, in May 2025, Biden, 83, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that had spread to his bones.
Since then, Jill has written a memoir titled View from the East Wing, in which she discusses the effects of Biden’s presidency on their family.
Following Jill’s statement that she thought Biden was suffering a “stroke” or had been “drugged” during the Trump debate, when he struggled to talk and put together logical arguments, the book is causing a great deal of controversy among former Biden associates.
On January 5, 2026, Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg attended her daughter Tatiana Schlossberg’s funeral in New York City.
At Tatiana Schlossberg’s funeral in New York City on January 5, 2026, Joe Biden and John Kerry (right) asked, “Is this a stroke?” I had the impression that we were viewing a glitchy AI hologram of the man we knew. In View From the East Wing, Jill asks, “Has he been drugged?”
“Oh God, will people assume this is how he is all the time?” she recalls wondering.
As he stammered through the historic June 2024 confrontation with Trump—a turning point that led Democratic supporters to publicly doubt his suitability for office—Biden looked weak and frequently lost his train of thought.
Not only did his followers witness the catastrophe, but Joe himself acknowledged that he had been in a car accident during prime time in front of voters, according to Jill.
“I really f***ed up, didn’t I?” Biden said to her as he left the stage.
“Yes, you did,” Jill writes. “I whispered back.”
