The man who promised to “unite” the country had just taken his seat when host Jimmy Kimmel asked him, “Why haven’t we done anything” about school shootings?

“Well, I think a lot of it’s intimidation by the NRA, and — look, this is not your father’s Republican Party, this is a MAGA party,” Biden said.

“It’s a very different — a very different Republican Party. And so you find people who are worried, I believe, that if they vote for rational gun policy, they’re going to be primaried. They’re going to lose in a hard-right Republican primary.”

Kimmel asked Biden if any Republican lawmakers privately tell him they would like to do something about guns.

“Well, I think — many of them do. You know, I get in trouble for saying this. But I get on — we have very different views on a lot of things.

“But I’ve always had a straight relationship with the majority — with the Republican leader, Mitch McConnell. You know, he’s a guy that when he says something, he means it.

“I disagree with a lot of what he says, but he means it. …I mean, look. He’s a leader of a party that’s moved very hard right. And so in order to get anything done, he has a different problem than he did early on, before Trump became president.”