For the less informed, Joe Biden happens to be the U.S. vice-president and Obama’s right hand man. Seriously, that’s exactly where he was sat for the entirety of Barack’s final State of the Union address.

Now, rather worryingly, Biden has said in an interview that he thinks Donald Trump might actually have what it takes to go all the way in the Presidential race. Those comments as reported on Mashable:

“Yes, I think it’s possible,” Biden [said]…

“I hope if that were to occur — I hope it doesn’t because I have fundamentally different views than he does — I hope that he gets a lot more serious about the issues, a lot more serious about gaining knowledge about how this nation functions in foreign policy and domestic policy,” Biden said. “But look, that’s a long way off”…

“I think he’d have to acknowledge he’s very divisive. That’s not healthy,” Biden said of Trump. “We always do best when we act as one America, we always do best when we appeal to our better angels, and we always do poorly when we appeal to our fears and our differences.”

Biden does share ‘fundamentally different views’, he’s not a racist who wants to build a wall along the Mexican border and ban people from entering the country based solely on their religious beliefs.

Obama himself then weighed in with a few body shots:

Asked by NBC’s Matt Lauer whether he felt responsible for Trump’s rise, Obama shot back: “Talk to me if he wins.”

“The message that Donald Trump’s putting out has had adherence a lot of times during the course of our history. You know, talk to me if he wins. Then we’ll have a conversation about how responsible I feel about it,” the president said.

Yet Obama added that he didn’t expect a President Trump to be giving a State of the Union address like the one he will deliver Tuesday night, at least any time soon.

“Well, I could imagine it in a Saturday night skit,” Obama said, chuckling.

That chuckle could become a nervous laugh if Trump continues to poll well, although one has to have enough faith in humanity to believe that this joke can’t go on forever.

[source:mashable]