First lady kisses second gentleman. Moments before US President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address, his wife Jill Biden kisses Kamala Harris’ husband and then makes his way through the crowd.
A moment that you don’t have to waste a lot of words about, you might think as an uninvolved person. But a video excerpt spread on Twitter causes all sorts of excitement and speculation. The reason: In the shared clip, it looks like Jill Biden is kissing Doug Emhoff directly on the mouth.
Whether the First Lady actually kisses Kamala Harris’ husband on the mouth or misses it by a few centimeters cannot be clearly determined due to the camera angle. It is also not possible to say whether the action was intentional or an accident.
Meanwhile, Twitter is discussing whether Jill Biden may have made a mistake and mistaken Doug Emhoff for her husband, US President Joe Biden.
Reactions to the kissing video: “Is that… normal?”
The California politician Doris Gentry asks the community “Are you kidding? And that before God and the nation! Who does that?” and decorates her tweet with numerous angry, crimson emojis.
The radio presenter, on the other hand, finds the “sexy prelude to the speech on the state of the nation”. Clay Travis. The commentator and editor Cabot Phillips meanwhile asks in consternation “Is that…. normal?”.
I didn’t even know the US Capitol had a kiss cam running during the speech.
Twitter user „Yo Yo Funny Singh“
The finance expert Genevieve Roch-Decter says “The State of the Union is now a reality show”. Twitter user „Shanghai Panda“ asks, however, “Is that a US etiquette? In China, we usually shake hands.”
Harder criticism comes from the stock trader Justin Pulitzer, who immediately speaks of “smooching around” and judges “What was wrong with the kiss? How embarrassing!”
Twitter-User “Afroz Alam” rewrites Biden’s speech “State of the Union” in “Smooch of Union” and states: “The network community talks more about this smack than about the Biden speech.”
Whether the lips of Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff actually touched in this much-discussed moment cannot be determined with absolute certainty. So far, neither Jill and Joe Biden nor Doug Emhoff or Kamala Harris have commented on the incident.
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