Joe Biden didn’t quite live up to his expectations promise bring “honor and decency to the White House.”
The most recent scandal at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was, of course, the cocaine scandal, which came to an unfavorable conclusion earlier this month when the Secret Service announced that they were “unable” to “identify a person of interest” due to lack of evidence.
But this explanation only deepened Joe Biden’s humiliation – after all, what White House does he run if someone can smuggle in an illegal drug without getting caught? This event also caused a lot of emotions uncomfortable questions for the president, considering his son Hunter is a known drug addict.
Last month, Hunter was the subject of another awkward episode at the White House when the scandal-plagued First Son was spotted attending a state dinner in honor of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Merrick Garland, Biden’s attorney general, was also present just hours after the fresh evidence was revealed alleged concealment by the Justice Department’s Garland criminal investigation into Hunter and two days after the Justice Department reached a settlement with the younger Biden on tax fraud and gun charges.
Conservative podcaster Michael Duncan compared the “Bill Clinton bringing Monica Lewinsky to a family dinner” incident, while even some Democrats raised eyebrows on the decision to invite Hunter.
In addition to the First Family, Joe Biden’s other invited guests have similarly disgraced the terrain where Thomas Jefferson and Meriweather Lewis once planned a daring expedition into the fresh territory of Louisiana, where Union soldiers watched over President Lincoln during the Civil War, and where Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met a few days after Pearl Harbor to coordinate the Allied war effort.
Now a very different crowd walks the South Lawn. For example, at a “pride” event last month, transgender activist Rose Montoya filmed topless video in front of Truman’s balcony.
A clip of the 27-year-old with her breasts exposed quickly went viral on social media, sparking a backlash from Republicans and Democrats alike. Eventually, even press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was forced to do so condemn Montoya’s actions – admitting that the incident was indeed inappropriate for a White House event.
While Montoya made headlines for the event, several veterans groups did as well took up the issue along with the decision to fly a giant “progressive pride” flag between two American flags on the south portico of the White House. As the groups noted, under the U.S. Flag Code, Old Glory “shall be placed at the center and highest point of the group when several state or locality flags or association pennants are grouped and displayed.”
Without a doubt, the most disgusting example of the Biden administration’s humiliation of the White House was the flood of social media influencers into the executive residence. Over the past two years, Biden has recruited celebrities from platforms like Twitch and TikTok to facilitate spread his message on topics ranging from the Covid-19 vaccine to the war in Ukraine.
In one particularly regrettable one example as of August 2021, a TikTok influencer going by the name “Benny Drama” uploaded a video shot at the White House featuring then-press secretary Jen Psaki. In the clip, Drama plays “Kooper, the Gen Z intern” who parades around the West Wing in a white skirt and fraudulent acrylic nails, calling Psaki “Jenny.” At one point, Drama runs down the hall shouting, “We made it, Joe!”
Then there’s Joe Biden himself. For the soon-to-be 81-year-old president, who is in a state of marked cognitive decline, embarrassing moments in the White House are equal parts gloomy, entertaining and terrifying.
For example, Biden’s first Easter bun in April 2022 featured an employee dressed as the Easter Bunny intervened to prevent Biden from answering a reporter’s question about Afghanistan. The best answer ever we found out why Biden was unable to comment on an crucial foreign policy issue is that he was needed to start another round of the egg toss contest.
And of course they are many, many, many the president’s gaffes, lapses and incidents without purpose wandering – too many to begin to list in detail here – as he wanders through the few White House events he actually attends.
Just over halfway through his first term, it’s sheltered to say that Joe Biden has discredited the White House more than any of its 43 previous occupants.
Shane Harris is a writer and political consultant from southwest Ohio. You can follow him on Twitter @ShaneHarris513.
