Team Biden notices us noticing Biden’s shuffling gait…
According to an Axios report, President Biden’s handlers will now make an effort to hide Joe’s awkward shuffle when walking back and forth across the White House lawn.
The plan is reportedly to have handlers encircle Joe to mask the stumbling.
From Axios:
Why it matters: With aides usually walking between Biden and the press’ camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old’s halting and stiff gait, Axios’ Hans Nichols and Alex Thompson report.
Some Biden advisers have told Axios they’re concerned that videos of Biden walking and shuffling alone — especially across the grass — have highlighted his age.
Weeks ago, the president told aides that he’d prefer a less formal approach, a White House official told Axios. He suggested that they walk with him.
White House staffers and reporters alike noticed the sudden change in Biden’s walk routine beginning in mid-April, after more than three years in which he’d typically walked solo.
Can’t Make It Up: The President of the United States has been assigned “walkers.”
You heard that right. The man that has access to nuke codes now requires aides to escort him across a lawn.
These handlers now walk between Biden and the pool cameras, “to draw less attention to… pic.twitter.com/RO81Dvufb6
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 26, 2024
More over at Axios:
Axios: Biden advisers are concerned that videos of Biden shuffling alone across the South Lawn to Marine One have highlighted his age. So now aides walk between him and the cameras.https://t.co/uLNQuXqhfU
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) April 26, 2024