Add one of America’s most political filmmakers to the list of those calling for Joe Biden to step aside as the Democratic candidate for president.
Oscar-winner Michael Moore published a piece on his website asking the president not to “let your enablers hound you into doing what your body is begging you not to do.”
Then on his podcast, Moore called letting Biden go out on the debate stage last week “the cruelest form of elder abuse I’ve ever been forced to watch…Who would send an 81-year-old out onto any stage to debate a living monster at nine o’clock at night for a brawl that would not end until 10:42 p.m.?”
He then begged the president, “Let the doctors examine you. Then do the right thing.”
Moore’s suggestion for a replacement? Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Be the one who not only stopped Trump, but also the brave man who gave us our first woman in the Oval Office,” he urged. “She will complete your mission — and we will stand beside her.”
Biden, for his part, insisted this morning that he is not only staying in the race, but will win.
Others in Hollywood are not so sure.
After calling for for President Biden to “step aside” over the weekend, Rob Reiner tweeted, “If we see the Joe Biden that appeared on Morning Joe today every day until Nov. 5, he’ll be able to shut up people like me who think he should step aside.”
Meanwhile, author Don Winslow, who has staunchly supported Biden since the debate, called out Reiner on his flip flop.
“It took you all of 24 hours to change your mind and retract your tweet,” Winslow wrote on X, where he reshared Reiner’s post. “The only problem is that your ‘step down’ tweet was seen by 5.1 million and your whoops retraction tweets has been seen by 400,000.