Is it Love in the Afternoon for the president and vice president?
That’s what former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Republican, said about the pair’s public appearance to sign the infrastructure bill Monday. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris would play Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn, respectively, in Gingrich’s iteration of the film, he said.
“When I watched Harris and Biden coming out yesterday hand in hand, I was reminded instantly of Gary Cooper and Audrey Hepburn in Love in the Afternoon — a total failure of a movie because Cooper is way too old for Hepburn,” he said Tuesday.
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The former speaker noted the duo’s age difference. Biden and Harris are distanced by over 20 years, while Cooper and Hepburn had a nearly 30-year age gap.
Gingrich also criticized what he deemed a “phony” relationship for the camera as the two appeared before the press to sign the $1 trillion legislation funding transportation and broadband networks.
“I thought to myself, having our esteemed vice president who wasn’t even laughing — it was an amazing, magic moment. … She was cheerful and happy, but not laughing, and she was there with our modern Gary Cooper in the form of the president,” he told WMAL. “They were proving to us how happy they are to be together by being totally phony.”
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It was a disingenuous moment, typical of D.C. politics, for Gingrich, he suggested.
“It was one of those great, magic moments in Washington history where phoniness won out.”
Gingrich, 78, is the same age as Biden.
