President Joe Biden revealed on Tuesday that every time he hears the US presidential anthem “Hail to the Chief” he starts wondering “where the hell” is the Chief in question (“Chief” is supposed to refer to the President himself).
“Well folks, uh, you don’t have to stand, every time I hear ‘Hail to the Chief’ I wonder ‘where the hell is he?'” Biden announced to the audience. “Took me a long while.”
“You think I’m joking, I’m not,” Biden clarified. “I turn around and [say], ‘Where, where, where’s the President?'”
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Biden’s clarification is especially important because aides and corporate journalists often rush to Twitter to claim that he is just “joking” when he delivers a strange line or indulges in a trademark verbal gaffe.
Last Friday, Biden read “repeat the line” off his teleprompter during a speech. The moment quickly went viral and provoked protective rage from corporate journalists.
“It is noteworthy has the number of women who have registered to vote and cast a ballot is consistently higher than the number of men who do so. End of quote,” Biden said. “Let me repeat the line. Women are not without electoral and or political, or – let me be precise, not ‘and or.’ Or political power.”
The moment was posted to social media and quickly went viral, accruing over 4 million views in a matter of hours.
Several people, including an Assistant White House Press Secretary, tried to ‘debunk’ the video by claiming Biden actually said, “Let me repeat the line.” Biden never said “let me,” however.
Biden later coughed into his left hand following a speech on Wednesday, before walking over to the audience and appearing to use both hands to touch and interact with people.
The President did not wash his hands, or use use hand sanitizer before he used the same hand he coughed into to touch and interact with people amidst a global Covid pandemic.
