Biden, whose term spanned Gaza genocide, Ukraine war, Afghanistan withdrawal, announces memoir

Former US president Joe Biden — whose legacy includes calling himself a Zionist and providing extensive political and military support to Israel during Israel’s genocide in Gaza, which analysts and a Democratic report believe cost his party the 2024 election — has announced the forthcoming publication of a memoir about his time in the White House.

In May 2025, just four months after he left office as the oldest sitting president, Biden revealed that he had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that had spread to his bones.

He subsequently began radiation therapy.

“Since I left the presidency, I’ve had a lot of people ask me, ‘Joe, what have you been doing?'” the 83-year-old said in a video on his X account.

“I’ve been spending a lot of time with my family. I’m dealing with a cancer diagnosis, and I’ve been getting treatment, and it’s been going really well,” he said, thanking his well-wishers.

He said his upcoming presidential memoir, “Promise Me, America,” would be about the “challenges we faced as a nation, about the decisions I made, and why I made them.”

He listed several key moments that marked his 2021-2025 presidency, including the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump, the war in Ukraine and the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan.

It will also cover “why I chose to run for reelection, and why I chose to step aside,” Biden added.

His video promotion of the book omitted any mention of Israel’s genocide of besieged Palestinians and the US role in it.