Biden lost his balance for the first time when he was climbing the stairs with his right hand on the railing, and he did not fall, but he did have to put the other hand on the ground. Later, he stumbled again twice in a row, and in the last one he ended up falling to one side, although he immediately rejoined.
After the small mishap, the American president quickly climbed to the bottom of the stairs and turned around to make the military salute before entering the plane.
The president of the United States and the vice president, Kamala Harris, travel to Atlanta to meet with Asian Americans, three days after the shootings that left eight dead in Asian massage parlors in that city.
“He’s fine, he’s fine,” Karine Jean-Pierre, his spokeswoman, assured after the incident from the aircraft, without specifying whether a doctor had seen him once on board.
Last week, President Biden starred in another particular episode: while giving a speech, the president forgot the name of his Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin. Biden ended up referring to Austin as “the guy who runs that team there.”
The event occurred while the president announced the nomination of two female generals to lead the country’s military combatant commands. This week the US president had defined the Russian president as a murderer, to which Vladimir Putin replied “I wish you good health.”
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