Hunter Biden is trying out a role few would have predicted: banter buddy to his MAGA trolls. After years as a favorite whipping boy of the right, Axios reports that former President Biden's 56-year-old son has reappeared online and in conservative media with a mix of blunt self-awareness and gallows humor about his addiction and scandals—an approach that's nudging some critics toward reluctant respect. With seven years of sobriety under his belt, he kicked off the charm offensive with a lengthy sit-down with conservative commentator Candace Owens, who had long mocked him. "I was a crackhead," he told her, prompting an on-air apology as she acknowledged she'd treated him as a caricature.
He's since taken that tone to X, riffing with users accusing him of being behind the White House cocaine incident ("I would never have forgotten my drugs"), his drug use (one user told him to "do another bump," notes Forbes, and he responded "Why does everyone keep saying this? I smoked crack. I would never have wasted cocaine by putting it up my nose") and trading jokes that sometimes end in well-wishes for his sobriety. But the rebrand isn't just confessional; it's political. Biden is using his notoriety to contrast himself with Trump's family and to swipe at media figures he says go easier on the Trumps. Many on the right remain unconvinced, and critics say his outreach has meant entertaining fringe theories. Biden, for his part, seems unfazed, embracing the label "MAGA whisperer" and posting his new creed: "Radical honesty. No f*cks given, no f*cks taken."
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