WASHINGTON — Retired President Biden appeared in public Thursday for the first time since turning 82 — jokingly saying “You’re the Celtics, okay” in brief public remarks before dribbling a basketball from the NBA championship-winning Boston Celtics in front of the crowd. Asked to confirm.
Biden, who set another presidential age record with his birthday on Wednesday, spoke for about 5 minutes on the South Lawn as he hosted team members — and 54-year-old scandal-plagued first son Hunter Biden. Seen in the crowd.
“Welcome to the White House. I didn’t know any of these people behind me, but they just showed up. I don’t know where they came from,” Biden said, referring to the team members standing behind his lectern.
“2024 NBA Champions The Balls – You’re the Celtics, right?”. He kept roaming around. “Boston Celtics.”
It is unclear whether Biden was attempting to make a joke about the perception of his fading mental acuity, which prompted fellow Democrats to abandon the Democratic presidential nomination in July in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris. Which lost on 5 November. Election.
Biden told the team that won 18 titles that even his Secret Service name is “Celtic” — referring to his ancestry in the British Isles and calling himself “an old Irish Celtic.”
The Biden family also has other code names that begin with “C” — with Hunter, who is awaiting sentencing for gun and tax crimes, known as “Chieftain.”
It is unclear whether the outgoing president will pardon his son before leaving office on January 20.
Biden, who returned Tuesday night from a nearly weeklong tour of South America, where he repeatedly rebuked the press, again took no questions from reporters on Thursday.
Biden’s silence has irked the press — as he has on his decision to allow Ukraine to use U.S. rockets deep into Russia and on President-elect Donald Trump’s transition, about which Earlier this year, he claimed that this posed a threat to the end of American democracy.
However, the lame-duck president worked the rope line and posed for several selfies after being presented with a gifted Celtics jersey bearing his name.
A spectator tossed him a basketball, which he landed on the White House walkway while smiling before returning inside.
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