WATCH: Biden Appears Lost On Stage During Major Speech

President Joe Biden returned to form on Thursday, looking lost on stage as he made a rare appearance to push back on the policies of his successor.

For Biden, delivering remarks at the National Bar Association Gala was one of just several opportunities he has been given since leaving office to share his thoughts on the state of the country he turned over to President Donald Trump. With the Democratic Party suffering from cratering support among the public, many members are eager to turn the page on 2024, even if that means leaving behind the man who first unseated Trump.

Instead, they again saw the 82-year-old Biden bumble his way across the stage as if in a fugue state, passed off from one guiding hand to the next as fellow speakers worked to shuffle him to the podium and back to his seat.

In his remarks, Biden warned about the “existential” threat posed to marginalized groups by Trump, stating immigrants are “dramatically under attack” as a result of federal immigration policies. He denounced the “glee” with which the Trump administration is carrying out its mass deportation agenda.

“So many of you have fought to make this country live up to its highest ideals,” Biden said. “Not since the tumultuous days of the 1960s has this fight been so existential to who we are as a nation, with marginalized groups so dramatically under attack.”

Biden’s speech focused heavily on the contribution of black lawyers to the legal profession, one he equated with the contributions of immigrants to the U.S.

“We see the apparent glee of some of our politicians while watching immigrants who are in this country legally torn from the arms of their family, dragged away in handcuffs from the only home they’ve ever known,” Biden said, the Guardian reported. “My friends, we need to face the hard truths of this administration.”

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During a Q&A period, Biden said he is “working like hell” to finish a memoir about his time in office. He received an advance of $10 million for the book, far less than former President Barack Obama did for his own reflection about the presidency.

Biden left office under a cloud of suspicion about who may have covered up his mental decline in office and ordered the use of an autopen to sign pardons for high-profile individuals and members of his family. U.S. House Republicans have spent the past several weeks deposing former aides to Biden, including one who reportedly “cooperated” with the probe into who knew what and when.