‘What you see is what you get’: Five times things got weird between Biden and the press corps

Published May 19, 2021 12:00am ET



President Joe Biden has notched his fair share of awkward encounters with the press since moving into the White House.

Some of the exchanges stem from Biden-isms, distinct verbal quirks of a president with a history of making missteps when a TV camera or microphone is within earshot. But others have come off as, at times, borderline inappropriate, typically downplayed by Biden as jokes.

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