Joe Biden's presidency is filled with some pretty embarrassing defining moments, including his triple tumble while walking up the stairs of Air Force One, the infamous Red Speech where he called half the country MAGA extremists, his disastrous 2024 presidential debate with Donald Trump, and the incredibly disturbing moment he called out for a deceased Republican Congresswoman during a White House event.
Some of them have involved repeated attempts by reporters to get his attention, something we've seen often throughout Biden's nearly four years in office, where oftentimes his handlers have aggressively run interference in shielding him from those trying to get answers to shouted questions as he leaves or heads back into the White House.
Here's one such moment from back in April:
The strategy was fine-tuned in 2024, as we reported at the time, to even more severely limit the media's access to Biden at a time when more questions were being asked about his age and fitness to lead the country. This was done not only to keep Biden away from the press but to try and prevent voters from seeing how he shuffled across the White House lawn.
Here we are now, roughly two months before Biden's lone term in office draws to a close, and we have yet another one of those defining moments to report on, with this one being as Biden was preparing to board Air Force One after his G-20 Summit trip. A reporter got increasingly desperate to the point of screaming to get him to answer a question, which they said would be a "birthday present" to the media (Biden's birthday, where he'll turn 82, is November 20th):
“Mr. President, happy early birthday. For your birthday, will you talk to us, sir? As a gift to the press, will you please talk to us? Mr. President. President Biden. Please, we haven’t heard from you all trip. Mr. President!!!”
He never responded.
Watch:
The reporter, as it turns out, was not wrong. Biden barely talked to the media during his entire trip to South America for the summit:
During a six-day foreign trip to Peru and Brazil that wrapped up Monday, the president rarely spoke in public, answering almost no questions despite repeated efforts to engage him. One television producer took to writing messages on a large pad of paper, holding it up as Biden boarded and departed Air Force One.
“Xi?” one said, a silent request that Biden discuss his meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. “Ukraine???” read another, amid reports the president had authorized the firing of long-range U.S. weapons into Russia.
When reporters are reduced to screaming out questions and scribbling keywords on a notepad to try and get the purported leader of the free world's attention, you know it's bad.
Only eight more weeks of this and then change is comin'...