In an awkward interaction outside the White House Monday night, President Joe Biden told a reporter that the Secret Service is no longer allowing him to go in front of crowds now – an activity engaged in by all U.S. Presidents since the birth of the nation.
“Mr. President, how was it to be back on the campaign trail today?” a reporter asked the 81-year-old Biden.
“Feels good,” Biden said. “Except I’m not able to go out in crowds anymore. *Mumbles a bit*. The Secret Service doesn’t let me.”
Reporter: "How was the campaign trail… How do you feel about Pennsylvania?
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 3, 2024
Biden: "I'm not able to go out in the crowds anymore. The Secret Service doesn't let me."
Reporter: "Why not?"
Biden: "They say it's too dangerous."pic.twitter.com/uiOrjadpeB
The reporter then asked the President why he is not allowed out.
“Well because they say it’s too dangerous, no one gets to go out,” Biden said.
While it may appear as if The Big Boy is grounded for bad behavior or perhaps bad public performances, Biden is no stranger to hiding from the American people. Not only was his ill-fated 2024 campaign events where he spoke of Uncle Bosey being eaten by cannibals not publicized to the general population at all, effectively making them private events, his illusive activities during the 2020 campaign earned him the nickname Hiden’ Biden after his lackluster schedule of media appearances.
Before there was the Tall Biden, Brandon, Dementia Joe, Creepy Joe and Sleepy Joe there was the Hiden’ Biden of the 2020 election cycle, hiding away from the prying questions of reporters and unfavorable camera optics of the media. It is not clear which one of these ‘versions of Bidens‘ is what MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough believes is ‘the best Biden‘.
“This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden,” Scarborough said in March while hosting a show on MSNBC.
Others in the media are less impressed with Biden’s, or ‘this version of Biden’s’ performance, however.
“The administration of President Joe Biden amounts to nothing more than farcical theater,” Michael Schwarz said on The Western Journal on Tuesday. “After all, no honest person believes that the bumbling octogenarian actually functions as president. But reporters question him, and the Secret Service protects him, as if he does. Meanwhile, we all maintain the farce by continuing to call him ‘the president’.”
