President Joe Biden has made headlines again after stumbling while boarding Air Force One as he was leaving Poland on Wednesday. The 80-year-old US president’s latest blunder was caught on video as he headed back home from his overseas trip.
The video shows Biden falling forward about halfway up the stairs to the plane as he boarded Air Force One at Warsaw Chopin Airport. Unlike his viral fall in March 2021, the president was able to regain his balance as he stood back up and continued to the door. The US president was seen waving at the crowd before entering the plane’s cabin.
Biden was in Poland to deliver a speech after a historic visit to Ukraine this week. He used a major speech in Poland to taunt the Russian tyrant, saying Kyiv “stands strong, proud, and free” a year on from the invasion.
This is not the first time the president has taken a fall while trying to board Air Force One. In March 2021, Biden stumbled twice before hitting the deck while trying to depart for Georgia. In May of the same year, he appeared to briefly lose his balance as he walked up the Air Force One steps at Andrews Air Force Base en route to Illinois. The following month, the president staggered again while mounting the steps before flying to Los Angeles to attend the Summit of the Americas.
As the oldest-ever president, Biden’s stumbles have been used by Republicans as evidence that he is neither physically nor mentally fit for the office. After Biden underwent a physical exam last week, White House doctor Kevin O’Connnor noted in a five-page report that the president has a stiff gait due to “significant spinal arthritis, mild post-fracture foot arthritis, and a mild sensory peripheral neuropathy of the feet.”
O’Connor, who was not made available for questions from the media, made no assessment in his report of the president’s cognitive condition, which several Republicans in Congress have requested in recent months.
Biden’s health and fitness have been a subject of concern since he announced his candidacy for president in 2019. His age and physical abilities have been a target of criticism and speculation from his political opponents, and Biden himself has acknowledged his age and health issues.
Despite the concerns about his physical fitness, Biden has said that he is in good health and that his age and physical limitations are not affecting his ability to do the job.
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And this is newsworthy??? He moves around considerably better than most men his age (many of whom are sitting in assisted living communities playing bingo). Have you ever seen Trump riding a bike, walking on the golf course (other than from the golf cart to the green and back) or engaging in ANY cardio activity other than doing his “shuffle” to the nigun of YMCA after a maga rally?
Big deal, halevay when I’m 80 I should be able to shlep up that big flight of steps.
Only concern should be his cognitive ability.
Yeh I know he occasionally forgets a name or momentarily seems discombobulated. But if we couldn’t have Trump, well then as far as the other Democratic parties choices that were running, well he was certainly the least of the evils. No where not as woke as the others that were running.
Diane Feinstein John Fetterman 2024
This is the season of the possuk בנפול אויבך אל תשמח.
Now this is while he’s trying not to stumble imagine what goes on in the White House when no cameras are rolling and he’s not trying not to stumble he’s probably on the floor of the oval office half the time. they probably don’t need a mop in the west wing thanks to this ninkumpoop
“He moves around considerably better than most men his age (many of whom are sitting in assisted living communities playing bingo)”
That’s the whole point here. At his age, he SHOULD be home playing bingo, instead of playing President.
He’s been waiting since he was in diapers to be president..
He’s just never invisioned that he would be back in diapers when it happened
LBJ: Need we revisit history with your namesake?? I too wish along with Nicki Haley and many others that BOTH parties would move on to new YOUNGER leadership, but this is what our political has provided. We have age limits for airline pilots and a variety of other professions and our Constitution provides a minimum age so perhaps we need an upper limit.
Better to stumble up the stairs than down the stairs
Why is this even news? Who cares?