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Blue-collar Biden criticized for 'tone-deaf' posh Nantucket Thanksgiving visit
WASHINGTON EXAMINER ^ | November 23, 2021 q | Naomi Lim, White House Reporter

Posted on 11/24/2021 8:54:05 AM PST by Liz

Joe Biden is keeping his own family holiday tradition: going to Nantucket.

The president and first lady Jill Biden have long celebrated Thanksgiving on the well-heeled Massachusetts island off of Cape Cod. But with most members of the public unfamiliar with the first family's holiday history, Democrats are dismissing concerns that self-proclaimed "Scranton Joe" will seem out of touch with the working-class voters he is trying to persuade to cast ballots for Democrats next year.

Biden's Thanksgiving plans personify a "Marie Antoinette attitude," according to presidential historian and Ronald Reagan biographer Craig Shirley, as people struggle amid a pandemic-strained economy with record-high inflation.

"Reagan was always disparaged for spending Thanksgiving at the ranch in California, but Biden’s tone-deafness is alarming," Shirley said. "Yes, presidents have often been criticized for where they spent Thanksgiving, but Biden’s choice is especially egregious."

The Republican strategist added, "Going to Nantucket is ill-advised for presidents at 36% approval and falling."

An average of two-fifths of respondents told pollsters they approve of Biden's job as president, while a majority disapprove, according to RealClearPolitics .

A Fox News poll found last week that less than a quarter of registered voters feel positive about the economy compared to a third in December 2020 at the end of former President Donald Trump's administration. More than a quarter named the economy as their most pressing issue before coronavirus and inflation-supply chain problems, the poll found. And higher grocery prices are creating "serious" hardship for a third of respondents, an increase from 28% in August.

But barring "some particularly offensive optic or comment" in Nantucket, fellow historian David Pietrusza predicted there would not be too much political pushback.

"Let's face it: Presidents don't stay at Motel 6," Pietrusza told the Washington Examiner. "Even when Franklin Roosevelt followed up his 1932 election in the heart of the Great Depression and went off sailing on his multi-millionaire buddy Vincent Astor's immense yacht, the 264-foot Nourmahal, there was little significant downside."

"True, the opposition may carp, but then the conversation returns to larger ongoing issues," he said.

Trump spent most of his presidential Thanksgivings at Mar-a-Lago, his luxury private resort in Palm Beach, Florida, except for 2019 when he surprised U.S. troops stationed in Afghanistan. Former President Barack Obama tended to celebrate at the White House, dropping into a Washington, D.C., soup kitchen during the day. He would then travel to Hawaii, one of his childhood homes, for Christmas after vacationing in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, in the summer.

Massachusetts's splashy Cape Cod and nearby islands have been a presidential playground since John F. Kennedy put Hyannisport on the map. His father first rented a holiday cottage in 1926, purchasing what would become the Kennedy Compound two years later. Former President Bill Clinton vacationed on Martha's Vineyard as an incumbent, but Obama became the first ex-commander in chief to buy a place on the island. The Obamas doled out $11.75 million for Boston Celtics owner Wycliffe Grousbeck's 6,892-square-foot Edgartown Great Pond property in 2019.

Biden has spent every Thanksgiving on Nantucket since 1975, minus 2015, the year his son Beau died from brain cancer, and 2020 because of the pandemic. The first couple took their inaugural trip to the island shortly after they started dating following the 1972 death of the president's first wife and infant daughter. The then-Delaware senator's chief of staff recommended the destination as a compromise instead of rejecting multiple invitations, despite his boss's pride in being "one of the poorest men in Congress" raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Last month, Nantucket's median listed house price was $3 million.

Biden's Nantucket accommodation is still unconfirmed, but in the past, he and his family have stayed at Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein’s Abrams Point estate and Obama-era United Kingdom ambassador Louis Susman’s Washing Pond Road mansion . The Bidens typically order Thanksgiving dinner from Faregrounds Restaurant , a sports bar.

The Nantucket escape was preceded by a Friendsgiving dinner Monday with service members and military families at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Joe and Jill Biden will also join Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentlemen Doug Emhoff for a community service project Tuesday before they fly out.

The White House has remained mum about the rest of the president's Thanksgiving itinerary, but local flight restrictions and extra airport security and screening precautions will be in effect until Sunday. He has attended the Main Street Christmas tree lighting and mass at St. Mary, Our Lady of the Isle Catholic Church on previous visits.

Biden has been pitching his $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal and roughly $2 trillion partisan social welfare and climate spending bill as "a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America."

"When I ran for office, I said there were three reasons I'm running: one, to restore the soul of this country and decency; two, to restore the backbone of this country — working-class and middle-class folks, they were the ones that built America; and three, to unite the


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1 posted on 11/24/2021 8:54:05 AM PST by Liz
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To: Liz

The Kenyan lives on Martha’s Vineyard. If He can do it so can Biden. Leave him alone. We’re not them.


2 posted on 11/24/2021 8:57:31 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Liz

Nothing blue collar about this guy, never was.


3 posted on 11/24/2021 8:57:42 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Liz

Hmmmm. You would think with the rampant inflation, pedo joe (fjb/lgb) would have stayed in d.c. with bootyjudge to figure this out. Maybe unleash some of granholms personal SPR to lower gas prices back to $2.27/gal? No? My patience is wearing thin. Almost to last nerve level. Almost.


4 posted on 11/24/2021 8:59:26 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Liz

Brandon does Nantucket.


5 posted on 11/24/2021 9:02:43 AM PST by JPG (You can't unjab the jab.)
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And Pelosi moving to oceanfront property in Florida.

Amazing how these experts in “climate change” are okay spending millions of dollars on property next to the water. What about the rising oceans? Hmm.


6 posted on 11/24/2021 9:05:37 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Liz

Democrats were right about there being “Two Americas”, they are the “Rich” America.


7 posted on 11/24/2021 9:06:38 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Liz

Okay, folks, please finish the limerick...

“There was an elderly dementia patient from Nantucket...”


8 posted on 11/24/2021 9:09:45 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Liz

Biden , xi”z”, are mass murderers..

Nothing left to say..

https://rumble.com/vpowzz-golden-calf.html


9 posted on 11/24/2021 9:10:18 AM PST by aces (and )
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To: Liz
The then-Delaware senator's chief of staff recommended the destination as a compromise instead of rejecting multiple invitations, despite his boss's pride in being "one of the poorest men in Congress" raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

How can anyone hear that description and not either burst out laughing or regurgitate?!

10 posted on 11/24/2021 9:10:30 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: irishjuggler

Lol.....still pondering......


11 posted on 11/24/2021 9:10:41 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.p)
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To: KC_Conspirator

Yep, Democrats openly mock blue collar worker these days. Trump always attacked “up”. He went after politicians, the media, big tech. Trump never went after hardworking Americans....like Biden and the Democrats do.


12 posted on 11/24/2021 9:11:09 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Liz

LOL, “Let them eat Spam!”


13 posted on 11/24/2021 9:11:41 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (In politicians we get what we deserve, usually the best that money can buy, guaranteed.)
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To: Rummyfan

Where did “The Big Guy” hide his ten percent?

;-)


14 posted on 11/24/2021 9:12:58 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Liz

Ah well, if he’s gone every year since 1975 or whatever, can’t fault him.


15 posted on 11/24/2021 9:14:23 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Liz

Sad part is, Dementia Joe won’t even understand why he is being given the Ceausescu treatment.


16 posted on 11/24/2021 9:14:44 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Liz
When Biden heard about the damage inflation's causing everyday American families at this time of year, he could be heard muttering something like 'let them eat cake'...whatever that might mean...
17 posted on 11/24/2021 9:17:07 AM PST by GOPJ (One man lying to himself is pathetic - - a culture lying to itself seeds it's own destruction.)
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To: All
The Bidens typically order Thanksgiving dinner from Faregrounds Restaurant, a sports bar.


18 posted on 11/24/2021 9:18:33 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.p)
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To: Liz

Why do people, the wash Examiner, for instance, act like he is in campaign mode? First place he never did campaign, he simply stole the election. But this guy doesn’t give a crap what people think or say about him nor do his handlers.

They don’t care because of many reasons but most of all in his particular case, he is beyond lame duck.


19 posted on 11/24/2021 9:21:14 AM PST by stanne
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To: KC_Conspirator

“Nothing blue collar about this guy, never was.”

He has four mansions. Go here:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/joe-bidens-homes-photos-130000447.html


20 posted on 11/24/2021 9:21:26 AM PST by cymbeline
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