Naomi Biden lashed out at the forthcoming book from CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson — which explores the extent of her grandfather’s obvious cognitive and physical decline while in the White House — and claimed it amounted to little more than “uninspired lies.”

Naomi, whose father is Biden’s embattled son Hunter Biden, responded to a post on X that claimed Tapper and Thompson were publishing the book in an effort to make themselves the “center of attention” — and that they would be better served to focus on President Donald Trump and his “daily assaults on our constitution.”

“Tapper and Thompson want to be the center of the conversation because it will help them sell books. But with daily assaults on our constitution by the current inhabitant of the WH, the rest of us have, or should have, more important things to focus on.” https://t.co/RPleruhgwI

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 19, 2025

“Just read a copy of this silly book, and if anyone is curious for a review from someone who lived it first-hand: this book is political fairy smut for the permanent, professional chattering class,” Naomi Biden wrote in response. “The ones who rarely enter the arena, but profit from the spectacle of those that do.”

“Put simply, it amounts to a bunch of unoriginal, uninspired lies written by irresponsible self promoting journalists out to make a quick buck,” she complained. “It relies on unnamed, anonymous sources pushing a self-serving false narrative that absolves them of any responsibility for our current national nightmare. All of this at the expense of a man so completely good and honest that it is impossible for these people to ever understand the why or how of it all. There are real stories to be told and one day they will be. I suspect history will reward the truth.”

The book, set for release on May 20, will hit shelves just two days after the former president’s office announced that he was diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer that had already metastasized to his bones. That announcement led to some — even some who had been critical of Biden’s fitness and his decision to run again in 2024 — to say that perhaps he should be left alone.

David Axelrod, who served as chief campaign strategist to former President Barack Obama, said that the conversation about Biden’s cognitive fitness “should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s struggling through this.”

.@davidaxelrod: Conversations about Biden’s mental acuity “should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s struggling through this.”https://t.co/ULDkqRS9O9

— Adam Wren (@adamwren) May 18, 2025

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 on Monday that the Trump administration can remove Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for around 350,000 Venezuelan migrants who were allowed to remain in the United States under the Biden administration.

In an unsigned order that included no opinions, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration the green light to end TPS for Venezuelan migrants pending an appeal of the case, likely paving the way for the administration to ramp up deportations, The New York Times reported. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Biden appointee, was the only justice to say she would have denied the Trump administration’s request.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem kicked off the controversy over protected status for Venezuelan migrants in February when she terminated an 18-month extension of TPS for the migrants granted by Biden just before he left office. The extension would allow the Venezuelan migrants to remain in the United States and seek work authorization until October 2026.

After a lawsuit was brought against the Trump administration, Judge Edward M. Chen of the Federal District Court in San Francisco blocked Noem’s move to end TPS, saying that plaintiffs would have likely succeeded in showing that the secretary’s decision was “unauthorized by law, arbitrary and capricious, and motivated by unconstitutional animus.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit then rejected Trump’s request to pause the district court’s ruling before the case ended up in the Supreme Court.

In Solicitor General John Sauer’s appeal to the Supreme Court, he wrote, “The Secretary’s decision whether to designate, extend, or terminate TPS implicates sensitive judgments as to foreign policy and, in this case, the ‘national interest’—a discretionary determination that Congress expressly committed to her judgment.”

Monday’s order from the high court is welcome news for Trump after justices ruled against the president 7-2 last Friday, ordering the administration to pause deportations of suspected Venezuelan gang members to a prison in El Salvador. In that case, the majority ruled that the Trump administration must give detainees more time to raise legal objections. Only conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented. Trump blasted Friday’s decision, saying, “The Supreme Court won’t allow us to get criminals out of our country!”