Fox News reports that the President joked that he only made the public appearance because he heard there would be ice cream at the event. This happened after a shooting at a Nashville school took the lives of three children, three adults, and the shooter.
“My name is Joe Biden. I’m Dr. Jill Biden’s husband,” said the President in his first appearance after the shooting. He was speaking from the East Room of the White House. He then said: “I eat Jeni’s ice cream — chocolate chip. I came down because I heard there was chocolate chip ice cream,” and followed this up by saying: “By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs,” before adding: “You think I’m kidding? I’m not.”
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Only later, Biden called the shooting “sick” and “disgusting” and demanded that Congress do something to end the availability of assault weapons in our culture. He commented on the need for Congress to end Americans’ ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie spoke about the situation of President Biden deciding to make comments about ice cream after hearing about the shooting and saying: “To say that he misunderstood the moment would be an understatement,” and “You know, the president is watching, you’d hope before he comes down there, the awful scenes from the shooting and the reactions of family members and friends of people in that school. And to be coming down, joking about the fact that he’s Jill Biden’s husband and looking for chocolate chip ice cream is hardly the way to start it.”
He went on to say: “There’s no way to talk about something like this except to say that for all of us who are parents, what we dread every day is the news about the health and life of our children,” and “And so there’s no room to joke in that circumstance at all. And certainly not from the President of the United States.”
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These are the types of things President Biden is known for flubbing things up regularly. Sadly, he has the opportunity to make these embarrassing blunders repeatedly. It is something that makes the President the bud of many jokes throughout the world.
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