President Joe Biden was once again seen freezing up in public, and had to be led away by former President Barack Obama after appearing to glitch.
A video, initially shared by The Hollywood Reporter’s Chris Gardner, shows Biden standing motionless on stage, alongside Obama and Jimmy Kimmel, as the audience applauds at a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Biden seized up for about ten seconds before Obama grasped his left wrist and led him off the stage with a guiding hand on his back.
The clip went viral with more than 1.2 million views, and has been commented on and shared by detractors of the clearly aging president.
Don’t believe your LYING EYES, the Biden White House says. Didn’t happen!
He’s TOTALLY WITH IT, his incompetent stooges say — you just never get to see it.
They think you’re stupid. https://t.co/rl4hFEwAsz
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 17, 2024
“Biden freezes before Obama grabs his arm and leads him off stage. Yikes!” the RNC Research wrote when they shared the video.
“An ex-comedian, an ex-president & a mummy appear at a fundraiser,” someone else joked.
“Everyone promoting Joe Biden for another term is committing elder abuse, not to mention the abuse to our country,” one commenter pointed out.
“Biden froze again last night and had to get escorted out by Obama. Is this normal?” another questioned.
“Biden is not fit to serve,” one user added. “He belongs in a rest-home.”
Biden’s campaign team and members of his administration weighed in online to defend the president.
Campaign finance chair Rufus Gifford claimed that despite video evidence of Biden zoning out on stage, “Nothing remotely close to this actually happened.”
White House senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates criticized the narrative, tweeting, “By pretending the President taking in an applauding crowd for a few seconds is somehow wrong, all they’re really admitting is – once again – is they can’t take on the leadership that’s fueling the strongest economic growth in the world & bringing violent crime to a 50 year low.”
The fundraiser reportedly brought in over $30 million for Biden’s campaign, with notable attendees like George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Barbra Streisand at the Peacock Theater.
According to Los Angeles magazine, Clooney cautioned voters that “there’s nothing riding on it [the election] except, you know, democracy.”
Roberts, who starred in Obama-produced Netflix American apocalypse flick, “Leave the World Behind,” ominously predicted the downfall of society if Trump retakes the White House.
“Just the future, our children’s future, our grandchildren’s future,” she reportedly remarked. “That’s all that’s at stake right now. Just that.”
According to fellow Trump hater, Barbra Streisand, democracy is currently “under assault” in the United States.
“But thank goodness an experienced Democrat who has passed transformative domestic legislation is in the White House,” she noted.
At the end of the event, Kimmel interviewed both Obama and Biden, highlighting the necessity of Democrats defeating former president the upcoming election.
“I think part of what has happened over the last several years is we’ve normalized behavior that used to be disqualifying,” Obama criticized.
“We had the spectacle of the nominee of one of the two major parties, sitting in court and being convicted by a jury of his peers on 34 counts.”
When Kimmel questioned if voters were forgetting what it was like when the former president was in office, Biden responded, “All we gotta do is remember what it was like” when Trump was in charge.
This latest incident follows another video from a Juneteenth event where Biden froze awkwardly in place, while others, including Vice President Kamala Harris, danced to live music.
Critics like Mike Sperrazza commented, “We have our first total malfunction to his brain,” while Libs of TikTok remarked that Biden was “looking lost, staring into space like a zombie.”
Why isn't Biden moving? pic.twitter.com/DA78820xcd
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 11, 2024
Bates again defended Biden, stating, “It tracks that one of the most fact-checked groups in politics would falsely claim someone who never stops moving in a clip ‘froze’ because they simply weren’t dancing. There are others in the video doing the same.”
“We’ve been worried about the RNC ever since they attacked President Biden for petting a hero dog, for liking ice cream; and for respecting his wife,” he added. “We hope they get the support they need.”
Meanwhile, Democrats are so desperate to prove that Trump at 78, is frail like Biden is at 81, that they criticized him for walking down the stairs of his plane without falling.
Look how intensely focused he is on not screwing this up because this is so important to him. Staring down the whole time while gripping that railing. Then you can see how proud he is of his accomplishment at the bottom. pic.twitter.com/5jMreOEuRG
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 16, 2024
“Look how intensely focused he is on not screwing this up because this is so important to him. Staring down the whole time while gripping that railing. Then you can see how proud he is of his accomplishment at the bottom,” Ron Filipkowski wrote on X.
Biden has tripped on the steps of Air Force One throughout his presidency, that he has resorted to using a shorter staircase to board the plane.
VIGOR: Biden almost trips (twice) as he boards Air Force One — despite using the short stairs to avoid tripping pic.twitter.com/CkoLnwLV2q
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 20, 2024
In February, RNC Research shared a video of the president tripping not once, but twice, while using the short stairs.