Press Not in Room for Biden Remarks to Foreign Leaders

I can say without hesitation that we have not seen a president avoid the media as we have with Joe Biden in decades.

If you check the books, you will see that no president since the Reagan administration has held fewer formal press conferences than Joe Biden.

Having said that, something that happened this week sealed his fate in terms of the impression he is leaving with the media.

Keep Them Downstairs

With how Joe Biden avoids the media, I don’t think anything happens by accident anymore in terms of his staffers shutting out the media.

And before I get into the actual event, let’s not forget that Biden has brutalized the names of foreign representatives in the past.

So, with Joe Biden hosting Philippine President Bongbong Marcos and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, somehow Joe Biden’s opening remarks were not covered by the media.

This would be because they were all downstairs while Biden addressed a room without any media present.

The story broke via Michael Shear of the New York Times, who was serving as the day’s print pool reporter.

He reported, “The White House held most of the press in the lower hallway in the East Wing even as the pool spray at the Trilateral meeting got under way.”

Reporters did not make it to the room until President Marcos started to speak.

The White House continues to defend this by stating that Joe Biden has had more question-and-answer sessions with the media than any modern-day president, but that is a kind of twisting of the facts at best.

This administration defines a “session” even if Biden only takes one question when he is headed off to Marine One or Air Force One.

The media even documented these sessions, showing that some of them last all of two or three minutes.

In reality, the White House does not want to see Joe Biden make another gaffe on the world stage, as he has done throughout this administration, but the media is getting tired of being snubbed.

That is not an ideal situation for this administration as it heads into the meat of another election cycle.