There are better ways to call someone old, Nikki Haley

Michael Arceneaux
4 min readMay 3, 2023

It is impolite to suggest that one might die in their second term, but the fear is there among the public.

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I can’t believe she said the man would die in his second term.

Last week, in an interview with Fox News, Nikki Haley said with certainty that if re-elected, President Joe Biden would die in office.

“He announced that he’s running again in 2024, and I think that we can all be very clear and say with a matter of fact that if you vote for Joe Biden you really are counting on a President Harris, because the idea that he would make it until 86 years old is not something that I think is likely,” Haley explained.

Say with a matter of fact?

I know Haley to be the former governor of South Carolina, ex-ambassador to the United Nations, and based on her political ideology, reportedly listed her race as “white” on her voter registration card (for reasons still unknown to this day), an occasional assimilationist.

I didn’t know she was capable of playing God, too.

This was not her first swing at Biden over his age. When Haley announced her presidential campaign, she framed it around the notion of a “new generation” of leadership taking the reins. And in her announcement speech, she suggested that politicians…

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Michael Arceneaux

New York Times bestselling author of “I Can’t Date Jesus” and “I Don’t Want To Die Poor.”