Overview
- On Tuesday Joe and Jill Biden attended a ceremony at Trinity College Dublin where their son Hunter received the College Historical Society’s Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution for Public Discourse.
- Biden has been undergoing radiation and hormone therapy for an aggressive prostate cancer that has spread to his bones and has announced he will scale back public appearances while doctors say they remain encouraged by his response to treatment.
- The visit included crowd tensions and at least two arrests reported by local police as demonstrators gathered outside the College Historical Society event.
- The former president said he will do fewer in-person conversations to promote his memoir Promise Me, America, which is scheduled for release on 17 November 2026.
- The College Historical Society, founded in 1770 and known as the HIST, is the world’s oldest student society and its Gold Medal has previously been given to figures such as Michael D. Higgins and Desmond Tutu, underlining the public profile of Hunter Biden’s recognition and the symbolic nature of the Bidens’ appearance.