Biden loses track of event, yells 'Who's next?' at press conference with India PM | Fox News
By: Anders Hagstrom (Fox News)
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President Biden became confused and lost track of events during a press conference alongside India's prime minister on Saturday.
The incident came when Biden was supposed to introduce Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Wilmington, Delaware. He instead became confused and appeared to think he was waiting for a question from reporters. An announcer then introduces Modi following an uncomfortable pause.
"I want to thank you all for being here," Biden said. "Now, who am I introducing next?"
"Who's next?" he shouts, leading to several seconds of silence.
An announcer then cuts in to introduce Modi, who approaches Biden and shakes his hand.
The interaction came just one day after Biden received heavy criticism for allowing First Lady Jill Biden to run a cabinet meeting on Friday.
Biden convened his Cabinet on Friday for the first time since Oct. 2, 2023, and the first lady joined him to speak about the White House Initiative on Women's Health Research.
The president explained Jill Biden's presence there, saying, "Here and across previous administrations, first ladies have attended these meetings for specific reasons. This is the first time Jill has joined us, and it goes to show how important the issue is, which she is about to speak to."
He concluded by handing off to his wife, saying, "It's all yours, kid."
The New York Post reported that Jill Biden, seated at the head of the Cabinet Room's board table, "read from a binder about maternal health initiatives for four-and-a-half minutes after her husband spoke for just two minutes off the top of the meeting."
The president traditionally sits at the center of the table with Cabinet members seated in order of the founding of their departments. The last sitting first lady to attend her husband's Cabinet meeting appears to be Hillary Clinton.
The amount of influence the first lady has over Joe Biden, and therefore his administration, has been a frequent source of controversy, and numerous commentators took to social media to criticize her presence at the meeting.
The New York Post said that Jill Biden is "considered by insiders to be the most influential first lady since Edith Wilson, who tightly controlled access to her husband, President Woodrow Wilson, after he suffered a debilitating stroke in October 1919."
Fox News' Alexander Hall contributed to this report
Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on Twitter: @Hagstrom_Anders.
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Where in the hell is January when you need it. Oh, and you have to watch the video.
Scary that he controls nuclear weapons
Well, as someone once opined, why have them at all if we don’t use them? What if a hurricane comes along? Shouldn’t we be using nukes on it?
Even more scary is this is all you can come up with... Biden (mentally ill) and Trump (mentally insane)..
What are you mob doing??
Becoming Swagmen, I guess.
If Kamala wins, guess where I'm going?
Shona1 - pretty much ignore the people - money talks and is winning the race regardless of who the candidate is.
'Member the Golden Rule - works well in the U.S.
They probably gave him a football and told him it’s the nuclear football, don’t lose it.
Now that he is not the nominee, the media won't waste much time trying to protect him anymore. The left got more than they could ever have wished for out of him, and they are ready to do more damage with Harris.
This is a reach. No president is going to memorize the specific agenda of every event he’s at. He’s supposed to have people directing that kind of thing. It’s not as if he forgot who the prime minister of India was or why he was there. The Indian PM has said they had a productive discussion. This is not the scandal some obviously hope it is.
This isn’t true, I’m willing to bet most if not all would remember the agenda and why they were there, Bill Clinton’s aides once loaded the wrong speech into his teleprompter and he proceeded to give the correct speech from memory. Biden is senile and there is no way to deny that any longer.
I’m not suggesting that Biden is at his cognitive peak. Very few people his age are, and I am glad he is leaving office in January. There have certainly been many signs of him slowing down or losing focus, but latching on to this moment as an example of that is a stretch.
I wonder what the folks who were cheerleading all along for Biden until they kicked him out feel about the truth they denied becoming evident?
He was a poor choice in 2020 - albeit a better option than the other guy. As I have said twice now, this event is a poor example of his shortcomings.
Certainly was, and the moneypeople in the Democratic circle saw it just in the nick of time.
Of course, others saw it long ago, and said so.
Certainly does nothing to inspire any confidence that Biden is capable of doing the job.
When you’re partisan, everything the other side does is terrible. I’m not, so I’m capable of seeing that sometimes attacks on a politician - be they Democrat or Republican - are actually bullshit. This is one of those times.
I am not surprised by your stance.
People said Biden was unfit, and many liberals pooh-poohed even the very idea of that being true and lied and said Biden was sharp as a tack. They lied and are still lying about him.
There is no way to spin this latest episode as anything but bad for Biden.
There clearly is a way, because I did it. So you’re denying reality. It happened right in front of you. And i’, not one of those people mindlessly defending everything Biden did.
Yeah, you tried to spin it, but it didn't take.
Biden is unfit, and no amount of spinning or excuses will change the facts.
The folks who lied about him and continue to do so should be ashamed of themselves.
I tried to spin it? It didn’t take? Where do you come up with this nonsense? I expressed an opinion on the article. The fact that you automatically reject any statement that is positive for Joe Biden is entirely unsurprising. It’s also unsurprising that you think your partisan feelings are somehow objective fact.
Aww, look at you moving the goalposts all by yourself. That’s adorable.
Yes, that is right. Did you not write these words:
In response to:
That's you admitting to it.
If anybody paid attention they would see it was not a better choice by any means.
Not sure this is 'news' any more.
What would be 'news' is that Biden DIDN'T lose track.