Nearly seven weeks and counting and President Biden has yet to stand before America and take repeated questions from the media.
It’s bad enough that the president and his staff don’t have faith in him and his sometimes wandering mind to make it through an hour long press conference. But it’s also appalling that the media lets him get away with it — instead suffering through endless inane briefings by press secretary Jennifer Psaki.
“I think his staff does not have faith that he can stand at the podium and have a press conference the way President Trump did many times,” former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Fox News. “I don’t think this is President Biden saying, ‘I don’t want to do this.’ ”
This happened yesterday:
Whoops: Biden forgets the name of the Pentagon, as well as the name of his secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin pic.twitter.com/ZtcgHLBIAO
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 8, 2021
You won’t get much information from those press briefings, that’s for sure.
Psaki’s favorite blow-off response to a question is “I’ll circle back” on that one. It was trending on Twitter.
She has an edgy smile like she wants to tell reporters to stuff it. But I can’t imagine her getting an invite to Dancing with the Stars, or getting mocked at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
And you won’t see Saturday Night Live imitating Psaki like they did McEnany and Sarah Huckabee and Sean Spicer. They were under attack from Day One by Democrats and the Trump-hating media.
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Will Biden get his own Jim Acosta someday? Someone to hound him, maybe? Doubtful.
Say what you will about President Trump, he managed his own press operation.
By this time in his early presidency, Trump had five press conferences where he faced hostile questions. But he stood there and took it. He was never in the bunker.
Trump’s press conferences usually led to blaring headlines and yes, sometimes he acted like a jerk. But at least he was accessible and open to the American people.
Biden has shown no such willingness to be accessible, preferring to take one or maybe two shouted questions at his public events.
He’s giving a speech to the nation later this week but that will be completely scripted on a teleprompter — no chance that he’ll face any questions.
Psaki is promising a traditional press conference before the end of the month. We’ll see. If he does it, he’ll likely call on only his favored reporters and keep it short.
The reality is that the 78-year-old Biden won’t be able to stay on script through an entire traditional press conference, and is bound to trip on his words or make a gaffe. But don’t worry — the media will cover it up like they usually do.
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“Joe Biden Can’t Handle A Press Conference”, because Joe Criminal has the onset of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Hey Joe Criminal, you can enrich Hunter and your brothers, through your crime family, you can support the murder of children (the helpless) in the womb and eventually God will catch up to you. Joe, maybe you can ask the devil, how hot it is in ****. I guarantee you Joe, money from your criminal crime family enterprises, cannot buy your way out of the devil’s home, when your time comes.
FOr all we know, he’s been suffering from demential for decades..
An incredible sinister and evil hoax has been perpetrated on our beloved country. From the “I know NUSSING . . NUSSING” response of our media to the “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” insistence of the DNC with respect to their blatant vote fraud, this nation has been set up for something totally terrifying. I never thought the Orwellian plots or sci-fi of disfunctional totalitarians forecast would ever come to pass in the United States of America. Seems the ameriKan communist party formerly known as the democrat party, has been able to circumvent and defeat all safeguards the founding fathers incorporated to prevent such an evil ploy. And Joe Biden is NOT what he/she/it appears to be.
Put the big guy behind a kissing booth and call it done.
The outrage is still against Trump.
TDS has turned an obsolete political party into a one trick pony.
Orange Man Bad!
Orange Man Bad!
Orange Man Bad!
This is their life. This is what they are. They have become NPC’s freaking out with TDS.
ITS all trump’ fault. Even stuff done back in the 80s!
I was giving him 6 mouth before he is removed and Harris takes the post, I’m thinking he won’t make it 3 Mouths now.
Ah come on man, I’ll circle back on that. Just put that on a loop recording and there you’ll have the WHOLE “press briefing “
ANd if i forget to circle back, don’t ask me to circle back again as i’ll have to re-circle back..