Freezing temperatures outdoors the Washington Nationwide Cathedral have been nothing in comparison with the glacial local weather inside because the president and vice chairman crossed paths.
It occurred as President Joe Biden, first girl Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and husband Doug Emhoff got here collectively in Washington, D.C., Thursday to pay their respects to the late former President Jimmy Carter.
They joined the nation’s most noteworthy dignitaries, most of whom have been cordial to at least one one other — together with President-elect Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama, who have been surprisingly chummy.
The identical couldn’t be stated for America’s reigning first and second couple.
Because the New York Post famous, the strain between them was so blatant that even CNN’s Jake Tapper couldn’t assist however level it out in the course of the community’s dwell stream of the occasion.
“There’s President Joe Biden and first Woman Jill Biden. And I believe he has 11 days left as president of the USA,” Tapper stated over the feed that confirmed Joe and Jill Biden coming to take their seats subsequent to Harris and Emhoff.
“Clearly, an eventful 12 months, one which he didn’t plan for,” Tapper went on.
“Began the 12 months as a would-be Democratic presidential nominee, and everyone knows what occurred after that,” he added, alluding to Biden’s choice to drop out of the presidential race, which led to Harris and the Democrats’ spectacular implosion and defeat in November.
“Once more, you didn’t see a very hot greeting between the primary couple and the second couple. However once more, we’re at a funeral, so one has to take that under consideration when making an attempt to learn the physique language of the people there,” Tapper stated, making an attempt to mood his astute commentary.
However the video doesn’t lie –the primary girl took her seat subsequent to Harris with out acknowledging her presence, and Joe Biden didn’t make any effort to greet her.
If this have been the primary of such interactions, the context of the occasion might clarify away the frostiness, nevertheless it’s not.
This has been the established order since Harris’s White Home goals have been crushed by the truth that she was much more unpopular than the president the Democrats threw overboard for her.
And Jill Biden, who had a front-row seat for all of it, appeared to have that in thoughts when she gave Harris the chilly shoulder when the 2 met on the forty seventh Annual Kennedy Heart Honors ceremony final month.
Social media commentator Mike Sington shared a video to social media platform X of the icy change throughout Joe Biden’s “closing look” on the occasion as president.
President Biden makes his closing look on the Kennedy Heart Honors as POTUS. pic.twitter.com/LPzWrXc41a
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) December 9, 2024
If there’s one optimistic that comes of all of this vicious backbiting and public snubbing, it’s that it eternally places to mattress the lie that the Democratic Occasion is unified and powerful.
Now that the gloves are off between the 2 highest-ranking {couples} in America, it’s clear that they have been by no means the adults in cost anyway.
It’s rumored that Joe Biden was forced out of his re-election bid by Obama and former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi — the true energy brokers within the Democratic Occasion — and that Harris was shoehorned in as a last-ditch effort to avoid wasting the 2024 race.
She failed, and now Harris and the Bidens are making a spectacle of their animosity.
In the meantime, Obama is now yukking it up with literal Hitler — as a result of Trump is aware of who’s actually been in cost — whereas even a hip alternative can’t cease Pelosi from rattling cages.
Sadly, Harris and the Bidens are too busy preventing amongst themselves to note they’ve been used up and forged apart by the Democratic Occasion’s machine.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.