Ashley Biden, the daughter of President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, was brutally trolled on social media after her speech at the White House Pride Month celebration on Wednesday.
The 43-year-old wore a rainbow-colored dress as she attempted to passionately speak about the need to support LGBTQ youth while flanked by her mother.
However, during her address on the South Lawn, she momentarily stumbled over her words and swapped the ‘T’ and ‘G’ in LGBTQ, leading the internet to draw comparisons to her father.
“L-G-B-what now?” RNC Research mocked.
L-G-B-what now? pic.twitter.com/9NvlGDwTkI
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 26, 2024
“Like father like daughter?” someone commented.
“She attended the Biden School of Linguistics,” another wrote.
“She’s definitely Biden’s daughter,” someone added.
“Maybe it’s hereditary!” one X user quipped.
Despite the brief slip-up, Ashley managed to give an impassioned speech about the importance of making LGBTQ children feel “loved, accepted and supported.”
She highlighted the challenges many face, like growing up in unaccepting homes or being bullied. Her remarks earned applause from the crowd after she finished.
President Joe Biden, who is known for his verbal and literal missteps, recently made headlines for freezing up at a Hollywood fundraiser for his campaign.
A video went viral for showing Biden standing motionless on stage, alongside Obama and Jimmy Kimmel, while the audience applauded him at a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles.
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.
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
The incident directly followed Biden freezing awkwardly in place at a Juneteenth event, while others, including Vice President Kamala Harris, danced to live music.
The president did not attend the ceremony, though he marked Pride Month by pardoning veterans convicted under anti-gay sex laws during their service.
His executive action addressed convictions under the Uniform Code of Military Justice’s former Article 125, which criminalized sodomy until it was revised in 2013 to only prohibit forcible acts.
Those pardoned can now apply to have their military discharges upgraded and their convictions erased.
Last month, Ashley Biden made headlines when she confirmed in a court filing that her controversial diary, stolen from her former Florida home in 2020, was indeed hers.
The diary, sold for $40,000, contained entries about her struggles with drug use and allegations of inappropriate behavior by her father during her childhood.
Why isn't Biden moving? pic.twitter.com/DA78820xcd
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 11, 2024
After receiving treatment at a rehab facility, Ashley moved to a halfway house, where the diary was found under a mattress by the next occupant.
Ashley wrote about traumatic experiences from her youth, including infamously showering with her father and feeling hypersexualized at a young age.
She reflected on these memories in a 2019 entry, questioning their impact on her life and acknowledging her ongoing treatment for trauma.
Snopes, known for fact-checking, recently changed its assessment of the diary’s authenticity from “unproven” to “true” based on Ashley’s testimony in an April 8 letter to a New York judge.
In the letter, she expressed her sadness over the invasion of her privacy and the diary’s sale for profit, and implored the Chief United States District Judge of the Southern District of New York to put the diary thief behind bars.
Biden said that Aimee Harris, the woman who sold Ashley’s diary to Project Veritas, a conservative media group, showed “a complete lack of morality” and what she did “not only re-traumatizing to me, but constituted a horrific trauma in and of themselves.”
“I will forever have to deal with the fact that my personal journal can be viewed online,” Ashley added.
She told Judge Laura Taylor Swain that people “grossly” misinterpreted her “once-private” thoughts and hurled “false accusations that defame my character and those of the people I love.”
Ashley added that her “innermost thoughts” were “constantly distorted and manipulated,” in an effort to “peddle grotesque lies by distorting my stream-of-consciousness thoughts.”
Harris was sentenced to a month in federal jail, followed by three months of home detention.
In addition, she was ordered to forfeit $20,000 and will serve three years of probation as part of her sentence.