Jimmy Fallon turned Joe Biden’s upcoming memoir into a roast, joking that the real ghostwriter behind the book was the former president himself.
On “The Tonight Show,” Fallon put the cover of “Promise Me, America” on screen Wednesday and went straight for the authorship gag.
“The book was written by a ghost writer, Joe Biden,” Fallon cracked.
The late-night host kept the bit rolling by treating Biden’s new memoir as if it belonged beside ancient literature.
“It’s the second book Biden has written,” Fallon teed up. “The first was ‘The Odyssey.’”
Fallon also mocked the idea of Biden recounting his presidency from memory.
“So it’s three pages,” he quipped.
I’ve written a book about my time as President. It’s called PROMISE ME, AMERICA. It’s coming out November 17th and is available for preorder now. https://t.co/uMINr9efxS@littlebrown pic.twitter.com/yzWfZyD31A
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 15, 2026
Then he dragged former Vice President Kamala Harris into the punchline, joking that the memoir changes authors before the end.
“It’s kind of a strange book because toward the end it starts being written by Kamala Harris,” he sniped.
Conservatives seized on the same opening Fallon did, questioning whether Biden was really the author behind the book.
“What are the odds Joe Biden even knows he’s releasing a book?” White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson posted.
Former Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt dismissed the memoir outright and accused politicians of using book deals for corruption.
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“This guy couldn’t even sign his own name. He’s not writing books. LMAO,” Pratt wrote.
“Politicians write books to launder money. Nobody wants to read this, but the corrupt NGOs he provided for as President will buy up 100K copies and burn ’em to hold up their end of the bribes.”
Conservative commentator Steve Guest framed Biden’s rollout itself as the first falsehood.
“The first lie of Joe Biden’s book launch: “I’ve written a book,”” Guest wrote.
OutKick founder Clay Travis also questioned who would buy the memoir, while tying its release date to the midterm calendar.
“Joe Biden couldn’t sign his own pardons. Now he’s ‘written’ a book, which Democrats forced him to release after the midterms so he wouldn’t be in the news to remind people how bad he was,” Travis wrote. “Who in the world is buying this book?”
Biden rolled out the book himself on X, using the announcement video to update supporters on his life after the White House and his cancer treatment.
“Since I left the presidency, I’ve had a lot of people ask me, ‘Joe, what have you been doing?’” Biden said.
“I’ve been spending a lot of time with my family. I’m dealing with a cancer diagnosis, and I’ve been getting treatment. It’s been going really well.”
The memoir lands Nov. 17, after the midterms are already over.
The sales pitch promises a “candid and revealing” look at the “deeply agonizing calculation” that led Biden to abandon the 2024 presidential race.
Biden’s own framing was sweeping, casting the memoir around the crises and decisions that defined his presidency.
“It’s about the challenges we faced as a nation, about the decisions I made, and why I made them,” he noted.
“Leading the country through COVID, rebuilding our economy, and restoring our democracy after the attack on January 6th, ending our nation’s longest-running war in Afghanistan, strengthening NATO, and supporting Ukraine.”
Fallon’s Kamala Harris punchline landed as she was already facing another round of mockery, this time over a locker-room speech to the WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks.
Critics called it another “word salad” moment after Harris praised the team’s cultural reach in a winding message about who watches the league.
Kamala Harris gave a locker room speech to a WNBA team that made zero sense and then led a together cheer with them. This league has still never had a team visit the White House with Trump in office. pic.twitter.com/cwjA9mRjzK
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 12, 2026
“I travel our country. Young girls, boys, people of every gender background, race, watch the ‘W’, and understand how inspiring it is,” Harris said.
“So keep doing what you’re doing. You guys are impacting people who you may never meet,” she continued, saying some people “may never know your names or mine but they are aware of what you are.”
Harris told the players their impact extended beyond the game.
“And it is giving them a sense of their value, their dignity, and what they have a right to expect from this world – so congratulations on this game, but congratulations as much as anything else for the path you guys are charting. It is extraordinary to watch.”
Travis ripped the appearance as nonsense. “Kamala Harris gave a locker room speech to a WNBA team that made zero sense and then led a together cheer with them,” he posted.
The ridicule comes as Harris continues to leave the door open to another White House run after her 2024 loss to Donald Trump.
“Listen, I might. I might. I’m thinking about it,” Harris admitted to Reverend Al Sharpton in April. “I know what the job is and what it requires…I’ll keep you posted.”
On “The View,” Joy Behar was already waving Democrats away from another Harris nomination.
Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed to Harris’ polling, fundraising and name recognition, but Behar wanted the party looking somewhere else.
“I have a better list. I love her, she was great, but she didn’t win one time. What makes you think she’s going to win again?” Behar asked.
Behar named Jon Ossoff, Josh Shapiro, Gavin Newsom and JB Pritzker as alternatives, while Sara Haines floated Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and former Biden Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
“Look, we all love Buttigieg,” Behar said. “Are they going to vote for a gay guy?”