Biden, the huge embarrassment
Photos: Biden Brought Flashcards to Meet Putin, Putin Brought Flashcards to Meet Trump
Well, you know what they say: A picture is worth a thousand words.
In the case of contrasting photographs of Wednesday’s meeting between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin and former President Donald Trump’s 2018 summitwith the Russian leader, several thousand words, perhaps.
The Geneva face-to-face between Putin and the new American president following Biden’s visit to the U.K. for the G-7 summit was anxiously anticipated by the American media and public alike, as we waited to see how the notoriously gaffe-prone Biden, who routinely shows signs of cognitive decline, would behave.
It goes without saying that the United States has a tense and oftentimes adversarial relationship with Russia, and it is of the utmost importance that an American president is able to put on a strong, unyielding front when meeting with Putin, who is known for his cool, blunt manner of trying to humiliate other foreign leaders in public.
In other words, it was highly likely Biden would be chopped liver to the nefarious Russian autocrat.
Yes, the few moments that the two leaders spent speaking with the media together before adjourning to a closed-door meeting were rife with facepalm-worthy muddled confusion on Biden’s part, from yelling at a CNN reporter to appearing to nod when asked if he trusted Putin to referring to his Russian counterpart as “President Trump.”
One of the most embarrassing aspects of the 78-year-old president’s terrible performance was the fact that he came armed to the high-stakes press event with note cards.
