Biden's Chief of Staff Ron Klain says the president works out every day before he comes to the Oval

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain gave President Joe Biden grade-A marks for his fitness in a post-State of the Union interview Wednesday.  

‘He’s definitely in better shape than I am, that’s for sure. He’s very fit, he works out almost every day in the morning before he comes down to the Oval Office,’ Klain said in a virtual interview with the Economic Club of Washington. ‘I think his fitness, his vigor, is beyond question.’

Speaking to billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein, Klain pointed to the 79-year-old Biden’s performance at Tuesday night’s State ofthe Union as evidence that being the country’s oldest president isn’t holding the Democrat back. 

‘And I think the American people saw for themselves last night the president stand and give an hourlong address that was filled with passion and power and wisdom and energy,’ Klain said. ‘They saw him hold the longest press conferences in the history of presidents,’ he added, pointing to Biden’s Q&A session in January. 

Biden had one noticable slip-up during the 1 hour, 1 minute and 49 second-speech – accidentally referring to the Ukrainians as ‘Iranians.’ 

‘People see him on the job everyday and then what they see is a person who is fully capable of doing the job, fully vigorous, in great mental and physical health, and taking on the burdens of the office and executing them well,’ Klain boasted. 

White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain (left) told billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein (right) that President Joe Biden is ‘very fit’ and works out every day before heading to the Oval Office 

‘I think his fitness, his vigor, is beyond question,’ Chief of Staff Ron Klain said of President Joe Biden (center), who was captured walking across the South Lawn with First Lady Jill Biden (left) Wednesday night after a trip to Wisconsin 

Polling from ABC News and The Washington Post released Sunday found that 54 per cent of Americans said they did not believe Biden had the ‘mental sharpness’ to serve effectively. 

Forty per cent said he did.   

Asked by Rubenstein if Biden was ‘enjoying’ the presidency, Klain said he didn’t know if that was the way to put it. 

‘I think he’s very glad he ran for president,’ Klain answered. 

‘I think more importantly, I hear from people all around the country – Democrats and Republicans- that they’re very glad he’s the person in the Oval Office right now,’ the White House chief of staff offered.  

President Joe Biden is captured riding a bike during a trip to his Rehoboth Beach house in Delaware in June 

‘And so I think there’s a lot of confidence in him as the person who should be where he is,’ Klain added. 

Klain described Biden as being ‘even-keeled’ when Rubenstein asked if the president was a yeller and screamer.   

‘I think when things are going well he doesn’t get too hyped up and when we’re having tougher days he maintains that composure, that demeanor,’ Klain said. 

He suggested that was because Biden had gone through a number of tragedies in his life, including losing his first wife, his baby daughter and later son, Beau, to cancer. 

‘One thing that is true is that there’s never a morning I go in there with news that’s as bad or worse than someone has had to deliver to him at other points of time in his life,’ Klain said. 

Klain, who is 60, continued to push that he wasn’t in as good of shape as the president.  

‘I wish I was in better shape. I’m not very good at that. I wasn’t very good at that, frankly, even before I was this busy,’ he told Rubenstein. ‘I try to watch how many French fries I order from the White House mess.’