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A shocking new video featuring President Joe Biden and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) drew fire on social media after several users appeared to mock the way they clutched each other while easing their way across an airport tarmac in San Francisco, appearing to aim for their advanced ages.
As reported by NBC News, Biden, 81, connected with Pelosi, 83, upon his arrival at SFO Wednesday afternoon as part of a three-day fundraising tour across the Golden State.
Following a greeting by Pelosi and Mayor London Breed on the tarmac, the octogenarian president and the Speaker Emerita were seen slowly making their way to board Marine One, the video showed.
The two leading Democrats clutched each other for most of the walk across the tarmac, leading to lots of sniping online.
“Can either one walk?” one X user quipped.
“Two old cronies plotting and holding each other up,” another wrote.
Another remarked, “On Golden Pond Part II,” a reference to the 1981 movie starring Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn as an older couple who had to care for their teenage grandson.
“She could have just brought a walker!” scoffed another user, while someone else joked: “Geriatrics unite!!”
Another user called it a “nursing home reunion.”
WATCH:
Biden takes no questions after landing in San Francisco, where he's holding a few ritzy private fundraisers.
Crooked Nancy Pelosi leads him, hand-in-hand, to Marine One. pic.twitter.com/pROCuItBFI
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 22, 2024
Earlier this month, Pelosi incredibly claimed during a CNN interview that she really can’t criticize Biden’s age despite his obvious mental shortcomings because “he’s younger than I am.”
Pelosi, who turns 84 next month, defended Biden even as she made several verbal gaffes of her own.
“I’ve worked with the president for a long time, especially closely as speaker when he was president, and now since then, and he knows– I mean, he’s always on the ball,” she told host Anderson Cooper. “Anyone who would think that they’re at some advantage because of his age thinks that they’re in peril because he’s very sharp.”
Cooper noted there are “a lot of Democrats who have concerns about his age” and “about his mental fitness,” referencing the recent incident where Biden appeared to confuse Mexico and Egypt in addressing a question about his – ironically — mental acuity.
Pelosi responded:
Well, I think that people do make mistakes. I think his age is one thing, that’s an objective fact. His making mistakes from time to time, we all do that. When the former, ex-president, defeated President Trump made a mistake about one thing or another, he would make the same mistake seven times. It wasn’t a slip of the tongue, it was a complete going down a path of something that wasn’t even true, intentionally or otherwise.
So I think that, again, age is an objective fact. As I say, it’s all relative. He’s younger than I am, so what do I have to say about his age? But he is, again, knowledgeable, wise.
She added: “Joe Biden has vision, he has knowledge, he has a strategic thinker. This is a very sharp president in terms of his public presentation. If he makes a slip of the tongue here or there, what’s the deal?”
The vast majority of Americans do not share the California Democrat’s opinion of Biden’s mental fitness.
According to a new NBC News poll, nearly 9 in 10 respondents, or 89 percent, have some concerns about Biden’s mental status.
“The poll published Tuesday — ahead of Biden’s press conference Thursday where he was grilled about his age and mental acuity — found that 62 percent of registered voters nationally have ‘major concerns’ that he does not have ‘the necessary mental and physical health to be president for a second term.’ Another 14 percent have ‘moderate’ worries, while 13 percent expressed ‘minor concerns,’” Breitbart News reported, citing the results.
By comparison, just over 1 in 10 said they had “no concerns” about Biden’s mental state.
