President Joe Biden exhibited awkward behavior during a D-Day ceremony in Normandy, France, on Thursday, appearing to try to sit on a nonexistent chair and seemingly departing precipitously, prompting speculation about why.
“Awkward,” the Republican National Committee’s account posted on X, along with a clip of Biden stooping and reaching behind him as if he were preparing to sit:
Another clip showed Jill Biden escorting the president out as a band played, with French President Emanuel Macron remaining to shake hands with World War II veterans on the stage Biden had just departed:
The awkward behavior prompted jokes online.
Donald Trump Jr. posted on X: “Is there ever a time when Americans realize just how much of an embarrassment this is on a world stage? Does this kind of incompetence and weakness encourage our enemies to act the way they’ve been acting? Of course it does.”
Another clip appeared to show Biden asleep, while others around him had their eyes open:
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who was present at the ceremony, posted a photo he took of Biden where he said he was “practically ASLEEP.”
“I took this photo of @JoeBiden practically ASLEEP during a ceremony honoring our WWII heroes. Joe Biden continues to be an EMBARRASSMENT to our country. He turned a speech honoring HEROES into a Ukraine pep rally, bragging about body counts,” he posted, referring to Biden’s remarks about 350,000 Russian troops dying or wounded in the Ukraine War.
According to a White House press pool report, Biden may have also “stumbled slightly” as he departed Marine One later in the day.
“POTUS looked like he maybe stumbled slightly at top (please check video) – and checked the railing,” the pool report said.
Biden’s bizarre behavior comes a day after the Wall Street Journal reported that the president appeared to be “slipping” in closed-door meetings with officials and lawmakers.
According to the report, which was based on interviews with more than 45 people — Republicans and Democrats — over several months, during these meetings, Biden mumbled and spoke so softly people struggled to hear him, closed his eyes for so long people wondered if he had “tuned out,” and had to read from notes to make “obvious points.”
“These people who keep talking about what a dynamo he is behind closed doors—they need to get him out from behind closed doors, because I didn’t see it,” Sen. James Risch (R-ID) told the paper.
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