Hunter Biden Almost Cursed Out Obama Over This Kind Gesture

On Oct 23, 2025

Hunter Biden is still heated about a moment between his father and former President Barack Obama that happened during the elder Biden’s 2024 campaign for reelection.

According to ABC News’s Jonathan Karl’s forthcoming book “Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America,” the first son was furious when Obama took then-President Joe Biden by the hand to shepherd him off-stage at a Hollywood fundraiser last June.

“That really, really, really, really pissed me off,” he told Karl, in an excerpt detailed by Axios on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden laughs with President Barack Obama onstage during a campaign fundraiser at Los Angeles' Peacock Theater on June 15, 2024. — President Joe Biden laughs with President Barack Obama onstage during a campaign fundraiser at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater on June 15, 2024.

The optics seemed bad to the president’s son, who reportedly worried that the moment “was going to be a meme.”

Apparently, he had to hold himself back from lashing out at Obama, telling Karl, “I almost jumped up on the stage and said, ‘Don’t ever fucking do that to the president of the United States again — ever.’”

The episode came just over a week before Biden’s devastating debate against Trump, a shaky performance that only amplified Democrats’ worries about the president’s age and capacity.

Hunter Biden, pictured on Sept. 30, told journalist Jonathan Karl he almost cursed out former President Barack Obama for making his father look weak in front of a hall of Hollywood donors.

Amid pressure from his own party, Joe Biden announced his decision to drop out of the race in late July 2024.

Ever since, Hunter Biden hasn’t held back from airing his grievances toward the Democratic apparatus, which he’s repeatedly accused of abandoning his father.

“We lost the last election because we did not remain loyal to the leader of the party,” he told former Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison last July.