White House Officials Just Can’t Stand To Listen To Biden Speak Anymore

White House officials are experiencing so much anxiety over President Joe Biden’s bumbled speeches that they just can’t listen to them anymore.

“I know people who habitually don’t watch it live for that reason,” said one staff member.

Members of the White House West Wing staff have reported having so much anxiety when Biden speaks that they turn off or mute him for fear that he might take questions from the press and put his foot in his mouth.

Biden is well known for his faux pas and Freudian slips. During recent remarks concerning Hurricane Ida at the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters, the president commented that he’s “not supposed to take any questions.”

“I’m not supposed to take any questions but go ahead,” Biden said to Bloomberg News senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs when she wanted to know if she could ask Biden a question.

Biden refused to answer her question about Afghanistan.

The president let it slip in August that he was “instructed to call on specific reporters during a press briefing and that he’d been given a “list” of who he should call on.

While speaking about Hurricane Ida on Tuesday, Biden said that tornadoes are no longer called tornadoes. During a speech in June, he confused Libya and Syria three times.

Earlier this year, Biden said that he’d come to the Senate 120 years ago. At one point he even claimed to have driven 18-wheelers.

Biden is not the only one to fumble in answering questions, Jen Psaki seems to have her hands full trying to answer questions on the fly. To be fair, he is a handful.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a May interview with senior political commentator David Axelrod that the administration often encourages Biden to avoid spontaneous questions from the press.

“It seems to me that you guys have done a good job managing that, because a lot of his interactions are speeches and settings in which you have a pretty good sense going in what he’s going to say,” Axelrod commented.

“I think the thing that’s interesting is that he actually takes questions–I mean he took questions, I mean he did a mini press conference yesterday,” Psaki fumbled

“In fact, a lot of times we say, ‘Don’t take questions,’ you know, but he’s going to do what he wants to do because he’s the president of the United States.”

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