Democrats love Hollywood celebrities and their money. This White House brings in celebrities all the time. Just the other day there was an incident with actress Eva Longoria attending a White House movie screening and the president was caught getting some side boob action she clearly didn’t not want.

To be honest, Republicans would happily take Hollywood money, too, if the left coast elites were so inclined to donate to them. They aren’t. So, with Biden’s re-election campaign stalling out before it even really gets going, entertainment mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg is coming to the rescue. The billionaire mega Democrat donor is advising Biden to – are you sitting down? – embrace his age. That’s right. Just like Harrison Ford and Mick Jagger, Katzenberg said, Joe Biden has to lean in to being 80 and be proud of his age. Ford is already 80 and Jagger turns 80 soon. Like them, Biden should tout his longevity,

What could possibly go wrong? When I first read the article published in the Wall Street Journal, I thought it was amusing. I mean, Katzenberg’s world is Hollywood, a fantasy land. Joe Biden and those around him have done all they can to run from his age. Joe Biden is not a young 80 like Ford or Jagger. Just lumping Biden in with those two men is entertaining enough. But then the eyerolls began to make my head hurt. Harrison Ford still looks like a construction worker, as he was before he was an actor, and he is a pilot. Mick Jagger is still touring and prancing around the stage as only he can do. What is Joe Biden doing to look youthful and on his game? He falls off his bike in front of the press, he is pulled away from the press by his daughter as he walks on the beach in Delaware, and he randomly breaks out into a semi-jog walking to Marine One or approaching a stage. Once on stage, he might take a full-on header when he trips over a sandbag. The day he fell on stage, he also cracked his head on the doorway of Marine One as he exited it back at the White House. And, we all know he is prone to fall up stairs or come very close to falling down stairs.

We know these things because we have seen it all on video. The voters are not fooled by happy talk coming out of the White House from people paid to say he is fit as a fiddle, in fine physical shape, younger staff can’t keep up with the man who has endless energy. Then we hear his former press secretary say Biden doesn’t start work before 9:00 a.m. because he is a night owl. This White House often calls a lid in the late morning, or early afternoon with the press. He comes back from Delaware or Camp David on Monday. He has been on vacation or taking weekends away from the White House for 40% of his term in office. Does that sound like a man full of energy and busting his hump for the American people?

Fear not – Katzenberg was brought on board several months ago and as soon as Katzenberg asks, George Clooney will be on board, too.

That advice is one of the things Katzenberg has brought to bear in recent months, emerging as an influential outside adviser for Biden and giving the president’s longstanding, Beltway-heavy inner circle some things it has often lacked—years of business experience, Hollywood storytelling bona fides and a Rolodex of contacts in California’s entertainment and tech industry.

“He is determined, and the thing about Jeffrey is there’s just no version that he takes no for an answer,” actor George Clooney said in an interview, adding about the coming campaign: “Jeffrey will call, and I will help.”

There is little doubt Katzenberg can get big donors and celebrity surrogates on the phone. The bigger question for Katzenberg—and for Biden’s political fate—is whether the 72-year-old entertainment mogul, with little hands-on campaign experience, can help solve the president’s deeper challenges, including stubbornly low approval ratings and a lack of enthusiasm among both young and working-class voters.

Clooney said Democrats frequently struggle to sell their agenda, and the re-election campaign would be wise to listen to Katzenberg’s ideas on how to spread their message, including on the issue of Biden’s age, which the actor said he had discussed with Katzenberg.

“I always just say, look, everybody keeps coming into Hollywood for cash, and they don’t come to us for the one thing we do better than anybody, which is tell stories,” Clooney said. “And so I think it’s probably a very good idea that they’re going to Jeffrey not just for raising money, but for narratives. And I think that’s a very good thing. Jeffrey, he’s a dog with a bone and he doesn’t let go.”

Two things jumped out at me as I read that. We already know Biden’s narrative, his life story. And he embellishes it on what seems like a weekly basis. Even Hollywood can’t make up some of Biden’s whoppers he tells to audiences. And second, if Katzenberg has been on board for several months, why are Biden’s poll numbers still in the tank and the majority of Democrat voters don’t want him to run again? Shouldn’t there be a fairytale in place to make voters want to support his re-election?

It’s lipstick on a pig. Biden is feeble and frail, dazed and confused, every day. He is not in the same league as Harrison Ford or Mick Jagger. Biden doesn’t prance confidently on stage, he has to be led around on a stage. It isn’t inspiring, it’s sad.

Katzenberg, the co-founder of DreamWorks SKG, was announced as one of seven national co-chairs of Biden’s 2024 campaign. He is the only one who doesn’t hold elected office. His role is said to not be finalized but it will be broad. One main task will be fundraising – Team Biden hope he raises $2B.

Can Katzenberg save Joe Biden? Katzenberg’s recent venture to capture younger audiences, the video-streaming service Quibi, failed spectacularly. We’ll see how he does in getting younger voters interested in Biden.