The Biden White House spent four years lecturing Americans about unity and healing.
But now that he's out of power, the 46th President is learning a harsh lesson about loyalty.
And Joe Biden got some bad news from his closest friends that left his legacy in ruin.
Former President Joe Biden is discovering what happens when you take your biggest supporters for granted.
The 82-year-old politician launched his presidential library fundraising effort with sky-high expectations and a goal of raising between $200 million and $300 million.
Instead, he's running face-first into a brick wall of donor rejection that would make even a seasoned fundraiser wince.
"I want an $800,000 refund," Florida personal injury lawyer John Morgan told NBC News when asked about contributing to Biden's library.¹
Morgan wasn't finished twisting the knife.
"I don't believe a library will ever be built unless it's a bookmobile from the old days," he added.¹
The rebuke gets worse from there.
Major Democrat donor Susie Buell didn't mince words: "No one has asked, but I am not inclined to give to libraries."¹
When another former Biden bundler and administration official was asked about contributing, the response was swift: "Me? No way."¹
You want to know what this really means?
For four years, Biden's inner circle treated major donors like ATM machines while keeping the President locked away in the White House basement.
These same donors who wrote check after check for Biden's campaigns couldn't get a phone call returned from the White House.
They were good enough to fund his political ambitions but not important enough to have actual access to the man they helped elect.
Now Biden's team expects these same people to open their wallets one more time - and they're getting exactly what they deserve.
"This is a very difficult time to raise large checks for Democrats," admitted Democratic National Committee fundraising chair Chris Korge.¹
But here's the kicker - Korge himself warned Biden's team about this exact problem years ago.
"I did tell them that if Biden didn't run [in 2024] he would go out as a hero, and he could focus the last two years of his term on setting themselves up to raise a lot of money for the library," Korge revealed.¹
Instead, Biden's pride and his family's political ambitions led him down the path of seeking a second term despite obvious mental decline.
Look at the pattern here.
Biden spent decades building relationships with major Democrat donors, then spent four years in office treating them like second-class citizens.
His handlers created an impenetrable wall around him while these donors watched their investment in American leadership deteriorate in real-time.
One major donor who was part of the administration put it perfectly: "There's a reason why ambassadors are wealthy people - because you need them at some point."¹
But Biden's team was too arrogant to play the traditional political game of rewarding major donors with prestigious appointments.
They thought they could ignore the people who funded their rise to power and then come crawling back when they needed money for a vanity project.
The results speak for themselves.
When Democratic Florida Party chair Nikki Fried was asked about the Biden library effort, she hadn't even heard about it.
"They want a plan of how we're going to save democracy," Fried explained about where donors want their money to go instead.¹
Here's what Biden's fundraising disaster tells us about the entire Democrat Party operation.
These people raised more money than any political party in American history for the 2024 election - and they lost everything.
They don't control Congress, they don't control the White House, and they're watching their influence at the state level evaporate.
Now the same donors who bankrolled this historic failure are asking the obvious question: Why should we keep writing checks to people who can't win?
"This ecosystem, the last cycle, raised more money than probably has ever been raised, and we don't have Congress, we don't have the White House, and we don't have additional powers at the state level," Fried said.¹
The donor revolt against Biden's library isn't just about one old politician's legacy project.
It's about a complete breakdown of trust between the Democrat establishment and the people who fund their political machine.
For folks who work for a living and pay taxes, watching wealthy Democrat donors refuse to fund Biden's library is pure poetry.
These are the same people who lectured working Americans about civic duty and patriotism while their candidate hid in his basement and their party burned cities to the ground.
Now they can't even convince their own supporters to help preserve Biden's so-called legacy.
The man who promised to "build back better" can't even build himself a library.