Joe Biden flew into San Francisco on Wednesday, after his visit to Los Angeles After he went down the Air Force One short stairs, wearing sneakers to help prevent him from tripping, he was met at the bottom by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). They then held hands as she led him across the tarmac to Marine One.
That sparked lots of comment and mockery.
Biden takes no questions after landing in San Francisco, where he's holding a few ritzy private fundraisers.
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 22, 2024
Crooked Nancy Pelosi leads him, hand-in-hand, to Marine One. pic.twitter.com/pROCuItBFI
The NY Post reported on one of the cutting comments on X, which was pretty consistent with the general take of their walk, calling it a “nursing home reunion” look. Another called it “On Golden Pond II” referring to the Henry Fonda/Katherine Hepburn movie involving an elderly couple.
Biden, Pelosi clutch hands as they gingerly walk across San Francisco tarmac: ‘Nursing home reunion’ https://t.co/56rmKUL6yV pic.twitter.com/brpJtNyEK2
— New York Post (@nypost) February 22, 2024
But this take was particularly savage, riffing off the “Visiting Angels” commercial.
WHO DID THIS???😭🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/2pxIp43VJZ
— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) February 22, 2024
While Biden was in San Francisco, he hit some campaign events, but they also had him meet with the widow of Alexei Navalny — Yulia Navalnya and her daughter Dasha. He praised Navalny’s courage and said his wife and daughter were emulating that.
Joe Biden delivers very brief remarks after his meeting with Navalny's widow — and then fields zero questions. pic.twitter.com/kByDNtAybG
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 22, 2024
Biden said he was going to be announcing sanctions on Russia regarding Navalny’s death on Friday.
Then his brain seemed to break without any teleprompter midway through this sentence. He seemed to lose what he was trying to say, midway through the sentence.
“One thing that I made, that was made clear to me. Yolanda, she’s going to continue to fight…out of the way (?) Not letting up.” Then he turned away, and shuffled off, without taking any questions
I’m not sure exactly what he wanted to say. But he just met with her and already he forgot/confused her name, Yulia. Where the heck did Yolanda come from? He did something similar when he met the Queen of Jordan Rania, who he referred to as “Rihanna.”
He didn’t realize he got it wrong in either case.
In commenting on the meeting Biden had, many also noted that met with Navalnya far more quickly than he met with the people from East Palestine, Ohio. It took him more than a year to meet with them, then only after we got into the election season and he realized he needed Ohio to have a chance.
But hey, those were only Americans from a red, Trump-supporting area, so he could go on all kinds of vacations before finally getting around to them.
Priorities.
