Posted on 07/21/2023 7:55:36 PM PDT by lowbridge
Everyone noticed the lack of socks.
When President Joe Biden stepped off Marine One on a recent Sunday morning at Dover Air Force Base, he had just wrapped up a Delaware beach weekend. With his bare feet tucked inside his sneakers, he walked slowly across the tarmac to board Air Force One, which was headed to London for the start of a four-day European swing.
The informality of the president’s wardrobe distracted from something else — something reporters who travel with him have been noticing for some time. Biden boarded using the shorter set of retractable stairs that fold into the belly of the plane. The routine began a few months ago, the president increasingly avoiding the grander, more traditional doorway near the front of the aircraft on the main passenger level, higher above the tarmac.
The new routine looks to be another subtle accommodation to the president’s age. It is hiding in plain sight, although the White House won’t concede that interpretation. Three weeks ago when the president traveled to New York, again using the lower stairs to board, Bloomberg’s Justin Sink pressed press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about it during her in-flight gaggle. Was Biden having “mobility problems,” Sink asked, or was it “to address — you know, he’s had a couple incidents falling on the stairs getting up and you guys just decided that it would be better for him?”
“I don’t have any decision process to walk through,” Jean-Pierre replied. “I’m sure there’s a protocol that’s used for the — for Air Force One. I just don’t have one.”
Traditionally, presidents have used the lower stairs when heavy rain or wind makes the taller steps unusable or in rare cases
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
““There are a series of factors that go into the logistical decision-making on this, including weather, what kind of airport we’re landing at and whether there is a formal greeting planned for the tarmac where we expect that press will want an official photo at the bottom of the tall stairs,” a White House official said. “There’s not one hard and fast rule — it is a decision made on a variety of factors in a wide range of settings and circumstances.”
Is one of those factors his dementia?
but subtle accommodations are being made“
Nothing subtle about it. Politico is downplaying it of course. 2:00 lids, shortened stairs, earpiece feeding him lines, basement campaign on and on and on it goes.
President Retard says he’s fit as a fiddle. Fake news agrees and repeats it. Libtards believe it
He will be hospitalized soon. Not so subtle.
Bare ankles. At least we’re not seeing his nether regions like Moochelle.
2 days ago
VIDEO: Joe Biden appears weary while reading off note cards during his meeting with Israel’s President Isaac Herzog.
https://rumble.com/v310dz8-biden-mumbles-incoherently-joe-biden-appears-weary.html
It’s normal for POTUS to almost pass out when talking to heads of state.
They just can’t be honest and clear about a single dam thing.
So, they are running out of ways to cover Biden’s age infirmity.
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I hope no more excuses are made before the primaries.
Nobody tell Politico he is senile.
I have not seen such horror and thus am not blinded.
Politico is state-run media. This is how they phrase this important topic?
A vote for Biden in 2024 is a vote for President Harris.
Harris is the most unqualified politician to hold the VP position in American history.
“A vote for Biden in 2024 is a vote for President Harris”
She will be president before the 2024 election. He’s going to step down so that the dems can go down in history as having the 1st woman (of color) president. This was always the plan. They just hoped that she would be more impressive & popular than she’s turned out.
I’m tired of this crap about age. My father and mother were leading hikes in the ALPS when he was 80.
He could still do it today at 90 but stopped only because it got boring seeing the same things time after time. My mother is a spry 86 and they still hike various parks and trails around the US.
It’s not about the age. It’s about the infirmity.
H
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