President Biden keeps appearing on video and keeps taking embarrassing criticism from what he does on camera. First there were the many awkward moments in Normandy, France, then there were his awkward poses at the White House’s Juneteenth party, and now he’s taking flack for an awkward handshake moment with Sen. Schumer in a video from way back in August of 2022.
The 2022 video came, as background, when President Biden appeared alongside Sen. Chuck Schumer and others to sign into law “The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022.” During that speech, Sen. Schumer gave introductions and then turned to shaking hands with those there, including Biden. He shook Biden’s hand and then, near immediately, Biden seemed to forget that they had already done so and bizarrely tried to shake Sen. Schumer’s hand again.
Though the video is old, it recently took off again on X when an account, “Gain of Fauci,” posted it on June 12, 2024, with the caption. “It took Joe Biden exactly 3 seconds to forget he had already shaken Schumer’s hand.” Predictably, the post, though of an old video, took off on X and garnered over four and a half million views.
Further, it drew hilarious and concerned comments. One person, for example, wrote, “The Goldfish President.” Another joked, “Love how Schumer ignores him the second time (or didn’t see the hand out).” Many others noted that it is embarrassing for America to be represented by such a man, and scary given that he control the nuclear button.
Another said, arguing that really the video was more sad than funny given what it shows about the elderly president’s mental state and those who are putting him in such a position despite being able to see what he is like, “At a certain point this is just so sad. Anyone who has had an older relative in decline knows what they are seeing here.”
Watch the clip here:
After the awkward handshake moment, when President Biden spoke, he rambled about electric cars for an odd amount of time. He began, saying, “Well, I tell you what: Detroit is making some really hot vehicles. They even got a Hummer that can go 4.1, 0 to 60. That’s faster than my Corvette, and my Corvette is older than I am, almost. But what I realize is that my Corvette is now a hell — worth a hell of a lot more than when I bought it. I got it original, 5,700 bucks. They tell me it’s worth a lot of money. But I know if I ever sell it, Beau will come down from Heaven and smite me down. But, at any rate —”
He then said, “And, by the way, that new Corvette — this electric Corvette — I got a commitment, that I don’t think I’m going to be able to enforce, that I get to buy the first one, because it’s going to be out before I’m out of office. So — but, at any rate — Look, folks — Chuck, you’ve done a hell of a job. You really have. You really have. And, Speaker Pelosi, you always get it done. You always get it done. Come hell or highwater, you get it done. And I want to thank Secretary Raimondo. And, Josh, thank you for the introduction. Josh loves electric cars. He graduated from Syracuse. He’s my kind of guy. What more do you need? Syracuse and electric cars.”
He added, “Look, this bill I’m about to sign into law, in my view, represents what I’ve always believed: America is the only nation in the world — and I believe this with every fiber of my being — the only nation in the world that can be defined, as I’ve told Xi Jinping several years ago, by a single word. He asked me to define America for him when I was in China and he and I were alone on the Tibetan Plateau. I said, ‘I can do it in one word, and I mean it: possibilities.'”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video
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