Must See: Tucker Dissects Saudi TV's Impersonation Of Biden & What It Says About America's Global Standing

Written By BlabberBuzz | Friday, 15 April 2022 07:25 PM
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The Saudis have ridiculed Joe Biden on a television sketch that presents him as doddering and forgetful, which has since gone viral.

The SNL-style skit comes from the show “Studio 22” and features Vice President Kamala Harris, played by a man in drag who has to show Biden the way to the podium and help him when he loses his flow of thought.

The one-minute clip has Biden walking off stage, forgetting the name of the Russian President, falling asleep mid-sentence, and calling his Vice President “First Lady.”

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“Listen to me,” the President says. “I have a very important message for you. The message is…”

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And he falls asleep.

“We’re going to talk about the crisis in Africa,” the Biden says. Harris has to correct him once again, bringing him back on course to discuss Russia. It ends with Kamala Harrison holding up a sleeping Joe Biden and demanding that the audience “clap for your President right now.”

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Biden has a long history of verbal gaffes and slips where he sometimes appears to lose his train of thought mid-sentence, often misremembering names of officials.

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This has led to questions about the mental acuity of the U.S. President, who will turn 80 later this year in November.

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“Studio 22” is broadcast on the Saudi government-owned television conglomerate MBC in a country where the media is heavily censored and controlled by the government, claiming that the portrayal is more than just the work of comics.

Relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, two allies in a mutually supportive but transactional relationship since penning a 1951 Mutual Defense Assistance Agreement, are going through a difficult period.

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In February, the Saudi government rebuffed a U.S. demand to increase oil production in light of sky-high energy prices globally, revealing a marked lack of cooperation between the two allies.

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The U.S. intelligence community publicly assessed that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder and dismemberment of dissident journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, putting pressure on the U.S. to hold him accountable.

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the Democratic establishment in the U.S. is always keen to take a harder line against the Arabian monarchy due to its human rights abuses and repression of its own citizens.

The show, a comedy show broadcast during Ramadan and available via the streaming platform Shahid, is now in its second season.

Boris Johnson is another world leader to come within its crosshairs, featured in a skit with U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

In the skit, the pair dispute over who will get to take in a female Ukrainian refugee standing between them.

They threaten each other, and eventually, each tries to pull the woman by a ribbon around her neck.

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