This week’s White House report card finds President Joe Biden muddling through another week of odd mumblings, happy that former President Donald Trump’s legal woes are taking center stage.
At events in Washington and storm-ravaged Mississippi, Biden added to his list of verbal gaffes and strained statements. First, it was talking about ice cream to open a statement about the lethal school shooting at Nashville, Tenn. Christian school. That was followed by an over-the-top comment in declaring a “Transgender Day of Visibility” that trans people “shape our nation’s soul.” And finally, he got the name of the Mississippi town he visited wrong, calling Rolling Fork “Rolling Stone,” explaining, “I got my mind going here.”
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Conservative analyst Jed Babbin graded Biden a “D-minus” and criticized the president for setting “an all-time record for tone-deafness and lack of compassion this week.”
Biden, in Rolling Fork, Mississippi:
“The town of Rolling Stone will be back”pic.twitter.com/Zr0Urqfi5P
— The First (@TheFirstonTV) March 31, 2023
Democratic pollster John Zogby, however, graded the week a “B,” giving Biden credit for stepping aside as bad news enveloped Trump, who faces a hush money indictment and is due to be arraigned in New York City on Tuesday, the first former president to face a criminal charge.
Jed Babbin
Grade: D-
President Joe Biden set an all-time record for tone-deafness and lack of compassion this week.
In an East Room statement after the Monday shooting in which a transgender woman killed three children and three adults at a Nashville, Tenn. school, Biden joked that he was just there because people had told him there would be ice cream. Three days later, he proclaimed that “Transgender Americans shape our nation’s soul.” The percentage of people in the U.S. who are transgender is about 0.5%. They are far too few to shape anything except Biden’s politics.
Naturally, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blamed the Nashville shooting on Republicans.
Ninety percent of the U.S. population’s growth over the past two years is reportedly attributable to illegal immigration. Many among the latest surge of illegals are Chinese who may be sent here by their government to undermine our security.
BREAKING: Outrage after President @JoeBiden said this at the start of his speech while children and adults were massacred in Nashville shooting, “My name is Joe Biden. I’m dr. Jill Biden’s husband. I like ice cream, chocolate chip. I came down because I heard there was chocolate… pic.twitter.com/Wa7nFApjMu
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) March 27, 2023
Reversing the statement of his ambassador to Israel, Biden said he wouldn’t invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House. Netanyahu and Biden don’t like each other, which isn’t surprising. Netanyahu has been the strongest voice among our allies criticizing Obama’s 2015 nuclear weapons deal with Iran, which Biden has been trying to revive since he became president.
John Zogby
Grade: B
There are two ways to have a good week. One is simply to have a good week. The other is to watch your archenemy have a terrible week.
President Biden had a good week. The last three polls have him at 45% approval, and a poll in North Carolina shows him leading both former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence in 2024 matchups. While that same poll showed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis edging Biden, the governor has problems at home, such as the outgoing board of Disney ’dissing him.
While Trump was planning for his Tuesday arraignment in Manhattan, Biden this week was in Mississippi comforting and providing aid to tornado victims, a good contrast for the president.
For Trump, mama never did say there would be days like this. For the American people, there will be at least one more year of this.
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Jed Babbin is a Washington Examiner contributor and former deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of former President George H.W. Bush. Follow him on Twitter @jedbabbin
John Zogby is the founder of the Zogby Survey and senior partner at John Zogby Strategies. His weekly podcast with son and managing partner and pollster Jeremy Zogby can be heard here. Follow him on Twitter @ZogbyStrategies
