New Strategy to Hide Biden's Shuffle

“Some Biden advisers have told Axios they're concerned that videos of Biden walking and shuffling alone—especially across the grass—have highlighted his age.”

Age isn’t the problem. His mental faculties are failing. Everyone knows it, no matter how they try to disguise it. https://t.co/7OLCfNrFm6 pic.twitter.com/3j71tr74oH

— Rob Bluey (@RobertBluey) April 26, 2024

From Axios:

President Biden has introduced a change to his White House departure and return routine. Instead of walking across the South Lawn to and from Marine One by himself, he's now often surrounded by aides.

Why it matters: With aides walking between Biden and journalists' camera position outside the White House, the visual effect is to draw less attention to the 81-year-old's halting and stiff gait.

Zoom in: Some Biden advisers have told Axios they're concerned that videos of Biden walking and shuffling alone — especially across the grass — have highlighted his age.

• Weeks ago the president told aides that he'd prefer a less formal approach, a White House official told Axios. He suggested that they walk with him.

White House staffers and reporters alike noticed the sudden change in Biden's walk routine beginning in mid-April, after more than three years in which he'd typically walked solo.

• Senior aides such as deputy chiefs of staff Bruce Reed and Annie Tomasini and close adviser Mike Donilon are among those who've walked with the president across the lawn to and from the helicopter.
• Since the change, some advisers think the images of Biden's walks to and from the helicopter are better, and they expect him to continue to have aides join him.

 

There is no way to disguise Biden's mental and physical decline.

Having people able to walk normally surrounding him makes his shuffle more noticeable.

Also, the fact that Biden no longer walks solo points to his progressive decline.

Compare that with the way President Trump confidently walks up to address the press every day after the Democrat lawfare election interference scheme concludes. Compare Biden's shuffle with the way President Trump walks among supporters in New York, greeting them, shaking hands with real people.

Biden struggles to walk. He looks frail because he is. There is no hiding that reality.