US President Joe Biden has fallen on Graduating at the US Air Force Academy Thursday, the White House said he was “fine” after faltering over sandbag.
Biden was saluting the graduates in Colorado Springs, Colorado, front of The stage with Greetings, handshakes, and turned to jogging back to his seat when he fell. He’s been helped up By an Air Force officer in addition to two members of US Secret Service details.
The spectators include some members of the official delegation on stage, see in worried about Biden, who At 80, he is the oldest president in we historyHe returned to his seat view the end of concert.
“He’s fine,” White House correspondents wrote on Twitter. director Ben LaBolt. “There was a sandbag on stage while shaking hands small black It was sandbags on platform supporting The teleprompter used by Biden and other speakers.
Biden was haunted by questions about his age and age fitness to serve, and his steps became fodder for political rivals during his campaigns for a second term in 2024. He stumbled before going up Stairs and on Air Force One was once captured up in He pedals his bike while stopping to talk to reporters near his home home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Biden’s personal physician said after the president’s recent physical in February that Bidenremains Healthy and strong 80-year old male who fit for successfully Carry out duties of Presidency” Dr. Kevin O’Connor also He documented the chief’s stiff gait, which O’Connor said it was result of Spinal arthritis, previously broken foot and neuropathy in Feet Biden.
Biden is far from first national A political figure stumbles in public.
President Gerald Ford has fallen down when walking off Air Force One in 1975. Republican Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, the Republican presidential candidate at the time, fell off phase in campaign gathering in 1996. President Barack Obama stumbles on a walk up Staircase to stage in 2012 event. “I was so fired up I missed my stairs,” he told the crowd.
President Donald Trump very cautiously walk down Slope at the start of the 2020 West Point also raised concerns about his health.
Trump, 76, was campaigning in Iowa when he heard about Biden stumbling and pointing to his own throat.
“He’s already fallen down? Well, I hope he’s not hurt,” Trump said after a member of the audience told him what happened to Biden. The whole thing is insane. You should be careful about that…”cause It was not want That is, even if you have to wear it on tiptoe down slope.”
The audience laughed as Trump slowly narrated way down What he said was a slippery slope at the US Military Academy graduation ceremony.
“If he falls, so is he bad,” the former said the chief. “We should just Get this thing back on a path. this bad place Fall when it’s made, I thought it was the Air Force Academy, right? This is not an inspiration.”
