In a very entertaining moment at the 47th Kennedy Center Honors, both President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden hilariously ignored g Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, as they entered the Kennedy Center Honors and received a standing ovation, with Kamala joining in the applause.
Wildly, the incident came when the Bidens walked up right next to the Vice President and her husband at the event, but then, despite standing right next to them in a publically visible area, refused to either look at or otherwise acknowledge either VP Harris or Emhoff, something that was seemingly quite rude and intentional, though it could theoretically have been by accident.
In any case, in the video of the incident that took off online, both Vice President Harris and her husband stand up, turn toward, and heartily applaud the Bidens as they walk up to the balcony area where Harris and her husband stand. Awkwardly, they then look directly at the Bidens while seemingly searching for some sort of recognition, whether a smile, wave, or something else.
They don’t get it. Instead, as the applause continued, both of the Bidens quite obviously refused to make eye contact with Kamala and her husband. Yet more wildly, and even more blatantly and obviously, Dr. Jill then did a quick 90-degree turn away from Kamala and Doug, ensuring they’re no longer in awkward view from the corner of her eye.
It didn’t end there; rather, it got worse. For nearly a minute after the introductory applause and refusal to make eye contact, the Bidens went on to wave and acknowledge many of the people in the room with smiles and gestures. All the while, they didn’t acknowledge Kamala or Doug, with Biden at one point even looking through them to wave at someone behind them.
Making the incident yet more awkward was that, during the moment where President Biden looked through his Vice President and her husband to wave to others, Doug Emhoff nodded to Biden in obvious hope of recognition. But Biden didn’t give it, coldly ignoring (or, potentially, not noticing) Emhoff and his nod. Watch the incident here:
Jill and Joe Biden are refusing to even look at Kamala Harris tonight 😬 pic.twitter.com/qL6jftoLsu
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 9, 2024
As could be expected, the incident led to a great deal of hilarity and commentary about what happened at the Kennedy Center event online. For example, in a post that got over 3 million views on X (formerly Twitter), the End Wokeness account wrote, “Jill and Joe Biden are refusing to even look at Kamala Harris tonight 😬”
Another commenter contrasted what the Kamala campaign framed itself as with the seeming internal dynamic of the Democratic Party, writing, as the New York Post reports, “What happened to the joy?” Another commenter wrote, the same outlet noted, “Can you blame them[?] Best case scenario she convinced him she would win, worst case the[y] ousted him so she could run. Either way, they probably feel robbed.
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video
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