President Donald Trump gave a quick update to reporters aboard Air Force One after completing his annual physical exam at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, taking a swipe at former President Joe Biden in the process.
Trump appeared to be in good spirits and said that he believed he was &#8220;in good shape,&#8221; and said that he had at the very least gotten &#8220;every answer right&#8221; on the cognitive portion of the exam.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> on his annual physical at Walter Reed: &quot;I think I did well&#8230; I felt I was in very good shape — good heart, a good soul&#8230; I wanted to be a little different than Biden. I took a cognitive test, and I don&#39;t know what to tell you other than I got every answer right.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/GYJisB1xxV">pic.twitter.com/GYJisB1xxV</a>
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&#8220;Hey, everybody,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Just got back from Walter Reed &#8230; I think I did well, every test you can imagine. I was there for a long time, the yearly physical. I think I did well, I think they&#8217;re releasing the report on Sunday, the doctors, highly respected doctors. It&#8217;s great, amazing place.&#8221;
After being asked whether he&#8217;d been told he needed to make any changes, he said there were a few, but added, &#8220;I felt I was in very good shape — good heart, a good soul, very good soul. I took — I wanted to be a little different than Biden. I took a cognitive test, and I don&#8217;t know what to tell you other than I got every answer right.&#8221;
&#8220;I took just a lot of different tests having to do with the heart, having to do with other things,&#8221; he concluded, repeating the plan to have the report released on Sunday.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had previewed the president&#8217;s plan to be fully transparent with regard to his annual physical earlier in the day, also jabbing at Biden and the previous administration&#8217;s lack of transparency.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a>: &quot;I can tell you there was certainly a lack of transparency from the former president, from the entire former administration, and frankly, a lot of people in this room when it came to the health and the competence of&#8230; Joe Biden.&quot; 🔥 <a href="https://t.co/wpHOMgCTCc">pic.twitter.com/wpHOMgCTCc</a>
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1910749050363650401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I can tell you there was certainly a lack of transparency from the former president, from the entire former administration, and frankly, a lot of people in this room when it came to the health and the competence of the former President of the United States, Joe Biden,&#8221; Leavitt said. &#8220;There was one of the greatest cover-ups and, frankly, political scandals this nation has ever seen. It&#8217;s been unraveled in recent books that are being written by journalists who engaged in that cover-up and scandal, which is quite ironic.&#8221;

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‘I Got Every Answer Right’: Trump Swipes At Biden After Annual Physical

'I Got Every Answer Right': Trump Swipes At Biden After Annual Physical

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the federal government should “take over” Washington, D.C., to crack down on crime and address widespread homelessness.
Trump told reporters on board Air Force One that federal authorities should bring law and order to the nation&#8217;s capital and wrest control away from local Democrat leaders who he said aren’t doing their jobs. He is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-set-to-sign-executive-order-targeting-homelessness-and-crime-in-d-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> set to sign an executive order in the coming days to demand D.C. authorities take steps to clean up homeless encampments and address crime. 
“I think that we should govern the District of Columbia,” Trump said, per the White House pool. “I think that we should run it strong, run it with law and order, make it absolutely flawless.” 
“And I think we should take over Washington, D.C. We could save people from getting killed,” Trump added. “They have a great police department there. Somehow they’re not utilized properly. We should govern D.C. The federal government should take over the governance of D.C. and run it really, really properly.”
Trump said that he liked Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser but that local authorities are “not doing the job.” 
“Too much crime, too much graffiti, too many tents on the lawns, there’s magnificent lawns and there’s tents,” he said. “It’s a sad thing, homeless people all over the place, we’ve got to take care of the homeless.”
He said that with foreign leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron and United Kingdom Prime Minister Keith Starmer visiting, there shouldn’t be so many homeless camps around the city. 
“You can’t have tents all over your beautiful, your once magnificent houses and lawns, you just can’t do it,” he said. 
The comments echoed his remarks on the campaign trail when he promised to revitalize the city. 
“We will take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it and rebuild our capital city so there is no longer a nightmare of murder and crime,” Trump said last year. 
Trump’s pending executive order related to D.C. would reportedly involve pushing for harsher punishments for violent gun crimes and petty crimes like public urination. It would also enhance protections for national monuments and federal parks. 
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) introduced a bill earlier this month that would end “home rule” established decades ago for District residents to control their own local affairs, and bring the district under the management of Congress. The lawmakers cited violent crime and the city council&#8217;s push to allow non-citizen voting as reasons for the legislation.

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A Secret Service agent stands at the bottom of the stairs while President Joe Biden boards Air Force One – even via the shorter stairs — in order to ensure that the president does not fall.
According to a report from The New York Times, Biden has almost exclusively used the shorter stairs since he tripped on a sandbag during a graduation ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy — and in recent weeks, Secret Service agents have taken to guarding the base of the stairs while the president is on them.
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According to The New York Times, a Secret Service agent is now &quot;positioned at the bottom of the stairs&quot; — even the short stairs — whenever Biden boards or disembarks to make sure he doesn&#39;t trip. <a href="https://t.co/FNlGYMvawQ">pic.twitter.com/FNlGYMvawQ</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1758720477994856499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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From the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/us/politics/biden-white-house-aides.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NYT piece</a>:
<blockquote>Even the way Mr. Biden walks to the presidential aircraft is subject to careful management. The president started taking a short flight of stairs directly into the belly of Air Force One, rather than a tall stairway wheeled up to a higher point on the plane, after he tripped and fell over a sandbag during a commencement ceremony this past summer. Now, there is a Secret Service agent positioned at the bottom of the stairs when he disembarks.</blockquote>
The NYT report, titled &#8220;Inside Biden&#8217;s Protective White House,&#8221; detailed a number of other steps that White House staffers have taken to protect Biden — giving him cheat sheets so he&#8217;ll know who to call on at press conferences; abruptly ending events and turning up the music so that Biden won&#8217;t be able to hear or answer questions from the press; and forgoing traditional interviews (like the pre-Super Bowl spot) entirely.
And despite the Biden-Harris campaign promise to be the most transparent administration in history, the NYT refers to the Biden White House as &#8220;cloistered,&#8221; adding that in recent years, &#8220;some of Mr. Biden’s key aides have gone from letting &#8216;Joe be Joe&#8217; to wrapping a presidential cocoon around him that is intended to shield him from verbal slips and physical stumbles.&#8221;

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Secret Service Agent Guards Stairs So Biden Won’t Fall Boarding Air Force One

Secret Service Agent Guards Stairs So Biden Won't Fall Boarding Air Force One

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President Joe Biden appears to have outdone himself with the latest in a long series of tall tales — that range from minor exaggerations to partial fabrications — telling a crowd that the late President Ronald Reagan had once made him an extraordinary offer in an effort to save his life.
Biden was referring to the brain aneurysm he suffered in February of 1988, and he credited Reagan with offering him the use of &#8220;Air Force — Helicopter One&#8221; to make sure that he was able to get the emergency medical care that he needed.
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Biden claims Ronald Reagan sent &quot;Air Force Helicopter One&quot; to take him to the hospital when he had a brain aneurysm in the 1980s.
His story &quot;is not supported by either his own autobiography or by Reagan’s daily presidential diary,&quot; according to <a href="https://twitter.com/stevennelson10?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@stevennelson10</a>. <a href="https://t.co/hJ9aSy0cud">pic.twitter.com/hJ9aSy0cud</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1734323471847395473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Biden told the story as part of his <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/12/11/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-city-of-philadelphia-receiving-a-safer-grant-award-to-fund-the-philadelphia-fire-department-philadelphia-pa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opening remarks</a> on Monday congratulating the city of Philadelphia for receiving a &#8220;SAFER Grant Award to Fund the Philadelphia Fire Department:&#8221;
<blockquote>I — I would not be here were it not for my local fire company in Wilmington, Delaware. They saved my life. I had a cranial aneurysm. I wasn’t — it was the middle of a snowstorm. Not a joke.
I couldn’t figure out how they were going to — President Reagan was nice enough to send Air Force — Helicopter One to take me down, but it couldn’t fly.  And so, my fire department — my fire department came up, put me in the back, and took me on — in a snow — in a heavy snow on the day I went down to Walter Reed, because that’s where I had to get for this operation.
I got there for a nine-hour operation that saved my life. I — not a joke. My firefighters — the guys I grew up with — they saved my life.</blockquote>
And while the story about the aneurysm was true — Biden did have two separate <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/04/us/biden-resting-after-surgery-for-second-brain-aneurysm.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lifesaving surgeries</a> to correct aneurysms, one on each side of his brain — the rest of his story appears to be at least partially fabricated.
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The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/13/us/biden-is-operated-on-for-aneurysm-in-brain.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Biden was transferred to Walter Reed from St. Francis Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware — and as The New York Post&#8217;s Steven Nelson noted, neither Biden&#8217;s own autobiography nor Reagan&#8217;s presidential diary made any mention of any other transport being offered by the White House at the time.
According to a <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/11/news/biden-misnames-presidents-chopper-claims-reagan-sent-it-to-him-post-aneurysm/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The New York Post, Reagan&#8217;s notes from that day did mention Marine One — the name given to any helicopter on which the president is traveling — but only to say that inclement weather had prevented even Reagan himself from using it that morning.
Biden&#8217;s account of his trip to Walter Reed — given in great detail in his 2007 autobiography, &#8220;Promises to Keep&#8221; — also made no mention of any offer from the White House.
&#8220;Weather conditions made a medevac helicopter flight too dangerous. I had no idea what time it was, but I found myself on a gurney, my test results strapped to my chest, being wheeled out the doors of Saint Francis [hospital in Wilmington, Del.] toward a waiting ambulance,&#8221; Biden wrote at the time.
Biden went on during Monday&#8217;s remarks to repeat the often exaggerated tale of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-praises-bidens-maui-speech-where-he-compared-historic-fire-to-small-kitchen-fire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">small kitchen fire</a> that took place in his Delaware home — which firefighters reportedly contained in under 20 minutes — saying that the fire department had saved his wife and his home (and his beloved &#8217;67 Corvette).

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Biden’s Latest Tall Tale Involves A Brain Aneurysm, A Helicopter, And Ronald Reagan

Biden's Latest Tall Tale Involves A Brain Aneurysm, A Helicopter, And Ronald Reagan

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President Joe Biden appeared to trip coming down the stairs of Air Force One on Tuesday — just hours after Axios published a report stating that the president&#8217;s team was actively working to prevent just such an occurrence.
Biden exited the presidential plane via the short staircase — which the report suggested were being used more regularly because of Biden&#8217;s propensity for slipping — and about halfway down, he appeared to slip on a stair, catch the railing, and right himself before carefully navigating the remainder of the stairs.
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Whoa there Joe!
Watch Joe Biden almost fall down the short stairs getting off of Air Force One: <a href="https://t.co/89sFvdUtSe">pic.twitter.com/89sFvdUtSe</a>
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The presidential wobble was caught on several cameras, providing views from multiple angles.
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ANOTHER ANGLE: Biden nearly trips as he exits Air Force One using the short stairs — which his staffers make him use to avoid tripping <a href="https://t.co/RBcactMYHN">pic.twitter.com/RBcactMYHN</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1706712803346641089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/amid-inflation-impeachment-woes-biden-teams-new-strategy-takes-a-different-tack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios report</a>, published just hours earlier, said that Biden and his team had implemented a new strategy in an effort to keep him from falling down and getting hurt — especially as the 2024 presidential campaign begins to heat up.
Citing a fear among senior Democrats that Biden could potentially have a serious fall resulting in injury — particularly in the weeks prior to the 2024 election — Axios reported that Biden&#8217;s team was pulling out all the stops to keep the trip hazards in his path to a minimum. In recent weeks, the outlet noted, Biden had often exited Air Force One using the short stairs — and he had taken to wearing tennis shoes.
&#8220;Gotta make the steps even shorter,&#8221; Fox News host Sean Hannity <a href="https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1706722179029647596" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said via X</a>.
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Despite voters&#8217; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-view-hosts-go-off-on-their-own-network-over-poll-thats-bad-for-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">very real concerns</a> about Biden&#8217;s age and capabilities, the president&#8217;s staffers attempted to make light of the Axios report. White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates and Communications Director Ben LaBolt mocked the report via X, suggesting that it was a manufactured scandal and comparing it to criticisms about former President Barack Obama&#8217;s <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/politics/presidential-portraits-unveiled-at-white-house/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now-infamous tan suit</a>.
&#8220;Move over, tan suit! Can confirm: @POTUS is one of the millions of Americans with sneakers,&#8221; Bates said.
LaBolt added, &#8220;The single greatest scandal in presidential history (since President Obama wore a tan suit).&#8221;

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President Joe Biden claimed Ireland was his home during a press briefing wrapping up his visit in Helsinki, Finland — and then stumbled as he boarded Air Force One to return to the United States.
Biden — who stopped in Helsinki to meet with Nordic leaders immediately after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-says-ukraine-not-ready-for-nato-they-need-democratization-first" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NATO summit</a> in Vilnius, Lithuania — delivered remarks alongside Finnish President Sauli Niinistö. Niinistö appeared slightly baffled as Biden struggled to get through his prepared remarks.
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“The minishing of minishers&#8230; The miniseries of cola’s daughter of Ireland&#8230; You can tell I’m thinking of home. Of the daughter of Iceland&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/puzkXWul5n">pic.twitter.com/puzkXWul5n</a>
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&#8220;The ministry of cola’s the daughter of Ireland — daughter of Ireland, you can tell that&#8217;s a Freudian slip, I’m thinking of home — the daughter of Iceland,&#8221; Biden said as Niinistö watched. &#8220;And I want to say, I think we&#8217;ve had a very productive summit.&#8221;
Biden then proceeded to take questions from two pre-selected reporters in the room, after which he <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1679507414712823812" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left the press conference</a> without addressing any additional concerns.
Just hours later, as Biden prepared to depart Europe for the United States, he appeared to have some difficulty navigating the stairs to Air Force One – despite the fact that he was using the shorter staircase.
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Biden stumbles a bit as he boards Air Force One — using the smaller stairs — en route to the United States. He took no questions. <a href="https://t.co/UxCA75kdQP">pic.twitter.com/UxCA75kdQP</a>
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After the first few steps, the president appeared to stumble a bit before righting himself and taking the remaining stairs at a slightly quicker pace.
Biden has reportedly been using the shorter stairs with greater frequency since his fall onstage at the Air Force Academy in Colorado — something that members of the White House Press Corps noticed last month and asked Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about.
Reporters asked whether the shorter stairs — often used by previous presidents when the weather is bad — were being used more often due to the number of times <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-falls-while-walking-up-steps-to-air-force-one" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden has tripped</a> on the longer stairs or his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-falls-on-stage-at-air-force-graduation-ceremony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent fall in Colorado</a>, but Jean-Pierre deflected.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have any decision process to walk through,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a protocol that&#8217;s used for Air Force One, I just don&#8217;t have one.&#8221;

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Flying aboard Air Force One is pretty cool. I did it hundreds of times.
First, you KNOW the plane isn&#8217;t going to crash (although doing that crazy spiral descent from 40,000 feet to the ground into Iraq is pretty hairy). Second, there&#8217;s never — never — a delay in taking off. George W. Bush was the best: He&#8217;d get on, the press would scramble up the back stairs, swiftly grab a seat, and into the air we went.
Third, the food is good. Really good. Dining on AF1 is like eating at a four-star restaurant — quality food perfectly cooked.
But staffers who fly on Air Force Two with Vice President Kamala Harris are claiming they get served shabby meals.
“It’s a little more Southwest Airlines than Four Seasons,” said a former staffer to Harris, who described Air Force Two food as “horrible slop,&#8221; Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2023/03/31/the-food-on-air-force-two-is-bleh-00089958">reported</a>.
The veep&#8217;s staffers complain that they get served cold pasta salad, soggy cold-cut sandwiches on white rolls, and bags of chips. When they&#8217;re flying early in the morning, it&#8217;s usually an egg and spinach breakfast burrito.
&#8220;Their counterparts on President Joe Biden&#8217;s plane get filet mignon and other hot delicacies on gold-rimmed plates, accompanied by cold beers,&#8221; The Telegraph <a href="http://telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/02/kamala-harris-staff-revolt-quality-of-food-air-force-two/">reported</a>.
“Everything sucks compared to AF-1,” a second former vice presidential staffer told Politico. “It’s so much more sophisticated and professional.”
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&#8220;Another downside of Air Force Two: no booze. While staffers flying with the president can order a beer on the way home from a long day of travel, those traveling on the vice president’s plane don’t have that option,&#8221; Politico wrote.
But then, that&#8217;s the plight of working for the vice president. John Nance Garner, who served as vice president for FDR, once said the job &#8220;isn&#8217;t worth a pitcher of warm piss.&#8221; You work around the edges, always in the shadows of the president. You get the worst assignments — during week one, President Joe Biden named Harris the Border Czar, charged with fixing the mess at the southern border.
But moaning about food they find inferior while flying around the world on private planes on taxpayer-paid trips is really a bit much. Politico said &#8220;some people would pack their own snacks when they traveled. Other times staff would pick up lunch or dinner at a local restaurant before hopping back on the plane.&#8221;
Oh, the horror.
Then again, Air Force Two passengers eat for free. Not so on Air Force One. One former staff member estimated that frequent fliers spend about $1,000 a year in meals on AF1. “It’s really hard to pay off on any junior staffer’s salary,&#8221; the staffer <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/news/kamala-harris-s-staff-revolt-over-quality-of-food-on-air-force-two/ar-AA19nYwG">told</a> The Telegraph, although they conceded, the food is &#8220;truly incredible.&#8221;
But it all seems just about right. Minor league baseball players carry their own bags, travel by bus, and stay at crummy hotels. So it is when you work for the vice president.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to <a href="mailto:josephcurl@dailywire.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">josephcurl@dailywire.com</a> and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> stumbled again while climbing the stairs of Air Force One this week following a trip he made to Alabama to commemorate the 58th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march during the civil rights era.
The incident happened on Sunday after Biden got off Marine One, walked across the tarmac, and began climbing the steps to board his flight back to Delaware.
About halfway up the stairs Biden briefly lost his balance but was able to stop himself from falling.
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This is the second time in recent weeks that Biden has had issues with trying to walk up the steps of Air Force One.
Back in late February, Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-falls-while-walking-up-steps-to-air-force-one">fell</a> while boarding the plane on a flight to come back to the U.S. after spending time in Eastern Europe.
These most recent incidents of Biden falling come after White House physician Kevin O’Connor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-doctor-claims-biden-fit-to-serve-as-president-despite-no-cognitive-test">claimed</a> in mid-February that Biden was “a healthy, vigorous 80-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency, to include those as Chief Executive, Head of State and Commander in Chief.”
Biden’s fall comes two years after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-falls-while-walking-up-steps-to-get-on-air-force-one">repeatedly</a> fell while walking up the steps to Air Force One as he was preparing to go to Atlanta to visit with community leaders following an incident that happened in the city.
The incident in March 2021 happened just a few months after he fell and fractured his foot while he was allegedly chasing one of his dogs after he got out of the shower.
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“What happened was I got out of the shower. I got a dog and anybody who’s been around my house knows — dropped, little pup dropped a ball in front of me. And for me to grab the ball,” Biden <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/12/03/biden-says-he-broke-foot-after-shower-when-he-pulled-dogs-tail/" rel="noopener">claimed</a> during an interview with CNN. “And I’m walking through this little alleyway to get to the bedroom. And I grabbed the ball like this and he ran. And I’m joking, running after him and grab his tail. And what happened was that he slid on a throw rug. And I tripped on the rug he slid on. That’s what happened. Oh man, not a very exciting story.”
Biden fell last summer while straddling his bicycle as he stood still on the road and tried to talk to reporters.
Biden was riding his bike near his Rehoboth Beach home when he <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/18/joe-biden-falls-off-bike-riding-near-delaware-beach-home/">fell</a>. After he got up he claimed that he was “good.”

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President Joe Biden took a jaunt up the East Coast in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/air-force-one">Air Force One</a> on Wednesday to warn about the dangers of excessive <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fossil-fuels">fossil fuel</a> consumption and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/climate-change">climate change</a>, dubbing it a &#8220;clear and present danger.&#8221;
The president flew in the highly customized aircraft — which carries 53,611 gallons of fuel — to Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport. He then took a car to Somerset, Massachusetts, to deliver a 20-minute speech on what he says is a &#8220;climate emergency.&#8221;
&#8220;Extreme weather disrupts supply chains, causing delays and shortages for consumers and businesses,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqai2X-7bzg">said</a> from the closed-down coal-powered energy plant, Brayton Point. &#8220;Climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world.&#8221; A new wind turbine manufacturing plant will soon be built at Brayton Point, which is why the president&#8217;s team chose the location for his speech.
Biden also blasted Congress for failing to craft legislation to address climate change adequately. Recently, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-senator-throws-another-wrench-into-bidens-agenda-biden-is-not-pleased">indicated</a> he would not support his party&#8217;s climate proposals, which he says would be disastrous for his home state of West Virginia.
&#8220;This is an emergency. An emergency,&#8221; the president continued on Wednesday. &#8220;I said last week, and I say it again loud and clear: as president, I&#8217;ll use my executive powers to combat climate the climate crisis in the absence of congressional action.&#8221;
He also <a href="https://twitter.com/DevonHeinen/status/1549828753072594944">announced</a> that he would sign several new executive orders directing billions of dollars toward clean energy initiatives. As part of those actions, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will use $2.3 billion toward the Building Resilient Infrastructure Communities program, which will help thousands of communities.
Likewise, he also <a href="https://twitter.com/DevonHeinen/status/1549828753072594944">said</a> that the Department of Interior would propose a massive wind farm covering 700,000 acres in the Gulf of Mexico, among other initiatives.
At the beginning of his remarks, Biden praised his climate czar and one of his &#8220;dearest friends&#8221; John Kerry, for the &#8220;great job, leading our international Special Presidential Envoy on Climate, traveling the world, and talking with an awful lot of people, and talking them into moving more of they&#8217;ve been doing.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s comments come a day after Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerrys-family-private-jet-emitted-300-metric-tons-carbon-biden-took-office">reported</a> that Kerry&#8217;s private jet has flown nearly 50 trips and expelled 715,886 pounds, or 325 metric tons, of carbon since Biden became president.
In 2019, Kerry flew to Iceland on a private jet to accept an award for his activism against global warming. He defended his travel at the time by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerry-private-jet-iceland-climate-award">saying</a> it was the &#8220;only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle.&#8221;
In reaction to the latest numbers on the Kerry family&#8217;s hot air emissions, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) tweeted, &#8220;Smug, hypocritical, hammering middle-class families, and now this: John Kerry is one of the single biggest polluters &amp; GHG emitters in the world. Once again, I call for him to resign.&#8221;
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Smug, hypocritical, hammering middle-class families, and now this: 
John Kerry is one of the single biggest polluters &amp; GHG emitters in the world. 
Once again, I call for him to resign.<a href="https://t.co/Qbr1weB9YX">https://t.co/Qbr1weB9YX</a>
&mdash; Sen. Dan Sullivan (@SenDanSullivan) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenDanSullivan/status/1549484145163780096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Just before the president began speaking Wednesday afternoon, Sullivan added, &#8220;The best thing President Biden could do to help the climate is to ground John Kerry’s private plane.&#8221;
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The best thing President Biden could do to help the climate is to ground John Kerry’s private plane.
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Biden Takes Air Force One Up The Coast For A Quick Speech About The Dangers Of Fossil Fuels, Climate Change

Joe Biden Declares Climate Change A "Clear And Present Danger" In Somerset Massachusetts

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President Joe Biden held an off-the-record conversation with journalists in which he mainly complained about their coverage, according to a new report.
On a recent Air Force One trip, Biden dropped back into the media seating area to &#8220;criticize the quality and tenor of press coverage of his administration,&#8221; Politico&#8217;s West Wing Playbook <a class="Link" href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook/2022/06/08/biden-to-media-be-better-00038244">reported</a> Wednesday.
&#8220;Joe Biden doesn’t do many off-the-record chats with reporters. So the traveling White House press corps was surprised and intrigued when the president dropped by Air Force One’s press section for one such session with them during a recent trip to the West Coast,&#8221; the left-leaning website reported. &#8220;But Biden wasn’t just there to field questions. He had his own message to deliver. According to multiple people familiar with the off-the-record session, he used much of his time with reporters to criticize the quality and tenor of press coverage of his administration.&#8221;
The sessions present a conundrum for reporters. On Air Force One flights, there is only a single reporter from print media whose job is to report back to other reporters not on the president&#8217;s plane exactly what went on. But an off-the-record session is never shared with those other reporters with the dual thought that, first, they may one day be fortunate enough to be in such a session and, second, because the president cannot speak candidly off-the-record if what he says is widely reported.
But still, along with the print reporter, there are upwards of a dozen media members in such sessions, including TV, radio, and wire service reporters, as well as half a dozen photographers. It&#8217;s not unusual for what the president said aboard Air Force One to leak out and make its way into the press. In fact, reporters who attend the off-the-record sessions will often relay the conversations to those who didn&#8217;t, with the caveat that the president&#8217;s comments remain off the record. That doesn&#8217;t always happen.
Biden hasn&#8217;t done a sit down with a media outlet in 119 days. Instead, the president did a softball interview with late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday.
Politico reported Biden &#8220;hasn’t done a sit-down interview with The New York Times’ or Washington Post’s non-opinion sections since taking office, a departure from his former boss Barack Obama, who regularly gave one-on-ones to the Times during his first year. Biden has similarly shut out major wire services like The Associated Press and Reuters. Though he’s given a handful of interviews to the major networks, he still hasn’t conducted a one-on-one with CNN (though he’s done several town hall appearances).&#8221;
“I can’t think of a parallel situation – it’s the fifth president I’ve covered and the first one I haven’t interviewed,” Peter Baker, The Times’ chief White House correspondent, told the outlet. “They feel neither the obligation nor the opportunity.”
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

Report: Leak Says Biden Whines About Bad Coverage To Reporters In Off-The-Record Conversation

Leak: Biden Whines About Bad Coverage To Reporters In Off-The-Record Conversation Aboard Air Force One, Politico Reports

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I was walking down a street in New York City a while ago and saw a man at least twenty years younger than me wearing a prosthetic limb. He was, in fact, ambling along quite well and as such I was impressed with his clear ability to overcome a difficult situation I cannot even fathom.
He also wore a camouflaged fatigue cap and military tan t-shirt with the words “Operation Iraqi Freedom” emblazoned on the chest. And I thought to myself: here is a man who has given so much. Certainly as much as many a veteran of World War II had. Indeed a piece of himself, for a cause that had no victory. No surrender ceremony in Tokyo Bay. No ticker tape parade.
Just coming home having served his country (better than it served him) and having left a literal piece of himself in the sands of a distant land at the behest of his commander-in-chief. And who knows how many comrades he saw give the ultimate sacrifice during his tour of duty.
Sometimes I wonder: Should we, perhaps, consider retiring the moniker “Greatest Generation” as a descriptor of those—and only those—who fought Germany and Japan between 1941 and 1945? Is that really fair to all those buried in Arlington Cemetery who happened to have fought for this country since the Civil War? Were they not just as “great”? Cannot this wounded warrior lay claim to “greatness” as much as those who just happened to be born into a different time to fight a different enemy?
This is not a call to diminish the sacrifice of the men and women who fought in all of those terrible battles of World War II. As anyone who has read my articles over the years knows, I hold the men and women who fought against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in awe and with the sincerest gratitude.
But theirs is a small section of the story of the American fighting man and woman. To attach to them the superlative “greatest” is to in a way demean those who went before and after them. How are the men of the Union Army who again and again marched towards the impregnable rebel lines at Fredericksburg having just witnessed the rank before them scythed down like wheat, and yet they moved forward anyway, any less deserving of a seal of greatness as those who stormed Omaha Beach? 
How are the men of the 101st Airborne at Bastogne, surrounded by Germans in sub-freezing weather, greater than the 1st Marines’ who pulled off a masterful “advance in the other direction” to the sea while surrounded and under constant attack by the Chinese in the sub-zero wastes of North Korea? Was a P-47 or Corsair pilot winging in at treetop level to strafe and bomb Nazi and Japanese positions any “greater” than the pilots of Huey helicopters flying their much more vulnerable ships into hostile Vietnam LZs to bring in supplies and evacuate wounded under intense enemy fire?
I think of today’s American fighting man and woman, and something occurs to me. First, ours is an all-volunteer service. Fully two-thirds of the “Greatest Generation” were draftees. And no group of young men and women who have ever volunteered for military service today have done so with eyes more wide open than this one.
What I mean is that in the 1940s there was no internet through which to see the shocking imagery of war at one’s fingertips. Nor were there graphic movies as “Saving Private Ryan” to show a prospective volunteer what war really looks like…blood, gore, agonizing and ghastly wounds, terror, men calling for their mothers with their dying breaths, brutality, and both chronic physical and mental exhaustion. Anyone wearing the uniform today does so despite all they have seen.
By contrast, the average World War II volunteer had almost no idea what he was getting himself into. Most had never seen any proper representation of war, save perhaps the old black-and-white Matthew Brady daguerreotypes of the grisly aftermath of Civil War battles like Antietam. War Department censors were diligently at work trying to hide the true cost of the war from the people back home, including those getting ready to join the fight. 
It was not until September, 1943, that Life magazine published the first explicit photo of American dead on the battlefield…three bodies lying on Buna Beach in New Guinea. But these photos, which showed no faces or blood, were mild compared to what was to come. 
The first true revelation of the horrors of a modern battlefield was not laid bare before the American people until March, 1944, a full 28 months into the war. This was the documentary “With The Marines At Tarawa”, which was released to public theaters after being approved by FDR himself. 
The film followed the 2nd Marines storming a tiny Central Pacific island the size of Central Park called Betio in the Tarawa Atoll. The cost was unbelievable. Over 1,000 dead and twice as many wounded in four days of intense, close-quarters combat which was diligently cataloged by Marine camera crews. For the first time, Americans were treated to the shocking images of bloated Marine corpses, faces blackened and swollen, bobbing grotesquely in the surf or sprawled out over barbed wire. All glory of wartime propaganda stripped away. 
For a populace so sheltered as was the USA in 1944, this was almost too much to bear. It should be noted that Marine recruitment plummeted after the airing of this footage! In other words, once they actually saw what it was they’d be signing up for, the bravura enthusiasm seemed to dim, even in this greatest generation. Human nature is what it is. And self-preservation was as much a part of their psyche as any others’.
So, who really is the “greatest generation”? I would argue the title belongs to any group of young men and women who bravely serve our country in its time of need, either in the thick of combat or dutifully walking the wall during times of restive peace, knowing they may be called upon at any moment to give their lives for their fellow Americans. 
Memorial Day is a holiday we set aside to remember all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines who’ve given their lives across many generations so that our nation might live. I say let’s lose the superlative “greatest” as a descriptor of just one narrow band of so many who have answered the call over the years. 
Let us honor them all. And be thankful for their greatness.
Brad Schaeffer is a commodities trader, musician, columnist and author whose eclectic body of work has been featured in Daily Wire, The Wall Street Journal, NY Daily News, National Review, The Federalist, Zerohedge and other publications. His best-selling novel “The Extraordinary”, and acclaimed World War II epic “Of Another Time And Place” can be found on Amazon and other popular outlets.

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Every Generation Who Volunteers To Serve Should Be Called ‘The Greatest Generation’

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The CEO of Boeing said that the aviation manufacturer has so far lost $660 million in a deal with former President Donald Trump to produce two new airplanes to serve as Air Force One, the president’s official transport.
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun told investors during the company&#8217;s quarterly earnings call Wednesday that, in hindsight, Boeing should not have taken the deal because of the losses it incurred.
“Air Force One I&#8217;m just going to call a very unique moment, a very unique negotiation, a very unique set of risks that Boeing probably shouldn&#8217;t have taken,” Calhoun said on the call. “But we are where we are, and we&#8217;re going to deliver great airplanes.”
Boeing struck a deal with then-President Trump to modify two 747-8i jets into Air Force VC-25B aircraft that could be used as Air Force One. The deal between Boeing and the Air Force was personally negotiated by former CEO Dennis Muilenburg, and then-President Trump was also personally heavily involved with the negotiations. <a href="https://www.defenseone.com/business/2022/04/ceo-boeing-should-have-rejected-trumps-air-force-one-deal/366186/">Defense One</a> noted that much of the deal was negotiated between Muilenburg and Trump at the White House and at Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago estate.
Trump, an aviation enthusiast who flew between stops in the 2016 campaign on his own private plane, a converted Boeing 757-200 jetliner jokingly dubbed &#8220;Trump Force One,&#8221; reportedly negotiated everything from the contract to the color scheme of the airliner, selecting a red, white, and blue color scheme to replace the light blue and white color scheme used for the current aircraft. Trump had previously criticized the deal before he took office. &#8220;Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion, Cancel order!&#8221; Trump tweeted in 2016, via <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/boeing-lost-money-over-trump-demands-for-air-force-one-2022-4">Business Insider</a>.
The final $3.9 billion deal between the Air Force and Boeing was reached in February 2018. When accounting for other costs in building the planes, including a brand new hangar complex at Joint Base Andrews, the full cost of the program is expected to be about $5.3 billion. The deal included a &#8220;fixed-price&#8221; agreement, in which Boeing, not American taxpayers, would bear any costs above and beyond the agreed-upon cost. To save money, Boeing is not building the aircraft from the ground up, but is instead repurposing two existing 747-8i aircraft that were intended to be sold to a Russian airline that went bankrupt in 2015, Business Insider reported.
In its quarterly earnings report, Boeing said that the losses were &#8220;primarily driven by higher supplier costs, higher costs to finalize technical requirements and schedule delays.&#8221; Boeing officials told Defense One that the company is involved in a dispute with a subcontractor, as well as ongoing supply chain bottlenecks and labor shortages, which are driving up costs and pushing back the timeline. The planes were scheduled to deploy in 2024 and 2025, but the Air Force&#8217;s budget proposal for fiscal year 2023 said that the planes may not be ready to be put into service until 2026.
According to the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/the-grounds/air-force-one/">White House</a> website, &#8220;Air Force One&#8221; refers specifically to the two &#8220;highly customized&#8221; jetliners equipped to transport the president. The current aircraft, designated VC-25A, is equipped with hardened electronics to protect against electromagnetic pulse attacks, secure communications equipment, and midair refueling capability to keep the president and staff in-flight for as long as necessary. The aircraft also includes a working suite for the president, along with two food preparation galleys, quarters for the president and guests, and a fully-functional operating room with a permanent doctor on staff.

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Boeing CEO Says Company Lost $660 Million On Air Force One Program So Far

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