It is impossible to avoid juxtaposing these scenes with the reality that the current, sitting President of the United States was not in attendance at all. These may be harsh comments, but they’re also inevitable and reasonably-founded observations:
The man who is nominally running the US government was represented in France by his wife and daughter, who even appeared to have gotten a bit chummy with Trump, in spite of everything that has transpired over the last four-plus years. This could have been an awkward seating arrangement, but this isn’t an awkward photograph:
The sitting president was elsewhere, having been shuffled off the world stage and hidden away by his team. Perhaps they’re shielding him from questions and uncomfortable situations over his outrageous and shameless pardon-related lies and actions. Perhaps he’s just literally not able to be in public without risking embarrassment:
Biden’s polling numbers are bleak as he approaches the official end of his presidency. As noted above, it already feels like his presidency is over, so much so that some people are already blaming the not-yet-president for current problems:
“Trumpflation.” He’s weeks away from being inaugurated. I’ll leave you with this:
