After President Joe Biden held his first cabinet meeting in over a year, social media voiced concerns after it appeared that First Lady Jill Biden was helping him through the meeting. In the first cabinet meeting since October of last year, Biden was joined by his wife to speak about the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research.
The president introduced the First Lady, stating, “Here and across previous administrations, first ladies have attended these meetings for specific reasons. This is the first time Jill has joined us, and it goes to show how important the issue is, which she is about to speak to.” Biden handed the meeting off to his wife, stating, “It’s all yours kid.”
Notably, Jill Biden sat at the head of the table during the meeting, a spot typically reserved for the president to sit at. Reports indicate that the First Lady “read from a binder about maternal health initiatives for four-and-a-half minutes after her husband spoke for just two minutes off the top of the meeting.”
Jill Biden has allegedly been referred to by insiders as the “most influential first lady since Edith Wilson, who tightly controlled access to her husband, President Woodrow Wilson, after he suffered a debilitating stroke in October 1919.” Throughout the Biden-Harris administration, many have speculated about the power and influence of the First Lady amid Joe Biden’s apparent cognitive challenges.
Following the cabinet meeting, users on social media voiced their concern about Jill Biden speaking at the meeting. “She’s literall Edith Wilson except right out in the open in a 24/7 news cycle and nobody in the media cares,” conservative commentator Greg Price said. Steve Cortez added, “Wow. A visibly exhausted Joe Biden just held a full Cabinet meeting for the first time in 11 months and immediately turned the mic over to his wife, Jill: “I’d like to turn it over to Jill for any comments she has. It’s all yours, kid.” Who is running the country?”
Similarly, Sean Davis commented, “I wasn’t aware that our constitutional system of government bestowed any power whatsoever to the unelected wife of the figurehead president.” Another user weighed in, “It’s insane that the world’s #1 nuclear superpower just sort of stumbled its way into a power vacuum. It’s even more insane that the vacuum has been filled by the former ruler’s wife, who holds no legal governing authority.”
White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates commented on the cabinet meeting, telling Fox News Digital, “Before President Biden updated his cabinet and the country on the continued achievements of the most successful administration in modern history, he asked the First Lady to join for the top of the meeting to showcase groundbreaking work they are leading to fundamentally change how we fund and approach women’s health research.”
“If the only response these critics have are conspiracy theories that devalue historic progress researching women’s health – including terrible diseases – then that says a lot about why more and more American women feel that the right couldn’t care less about them, including as it pushes radical abortion bans,” he added.
Watch the cabinet meeting below:
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