Not long ago President Joe stumbled his way on camera to apologizing to President Macron for “bumbling” relations with France. Rather stupid that in what appeared to be a prepared remarks the American President admitted to being a “bumbler” so publicly.
Yesterday, Biden tried to turn his and Pelosi’s mega-bumbling with Congress into a big victory celebration, complete with music, lots of celebrants, many vacuous speeches culminating with rather outlandish Biden pretensions of great accomplishments. Actually what Biden signed with so much hoopla yesterday he could have done many months ago. But for all these months he’s been promising something far more significant, something he and Nancy repeatedly promised and then totally failed to deliver.
Add this further stumble/bumble to yesterday at the White House which few are saying anything about.
When Biden finished all his self-congratulations of grandeur, as he walked from the speaker lectern to the signing desk, he could be heard saying “oops….my mask”. So he walked back from the desk to the lectern where he rustled through papers looking for his mask which he never found and in fact maybe was never there. So back he walked to the signing desk at which point dozens of members of Congress, all without masks, joined him and then, after he further joked that he didn’t have enough signing pens for all, they all smoozed together closely hugging and patting each other on the back. In all this time no one brought bumbling Joe the mask he thought he had left at the lectern.
With some 1000+ Americans still dying daily of Covid, and with American hospitals overflowing in many States throughout the country, this kind of closeup maskless event, even though outdoors, is not the way to go. And Joe’s bringing attention to it all, as just related, only adds to stumbling/bumbling Joe’s reputational problems.
And one more bumble moment. As yesterday’s proceedings began with a parade of dignitaries marking forward the announcer mispronounced the name of the Senate Major leader….it sounded like he said something like Senator Chuck Shermer.
Mark Bruzonsky 