Buried deep in a recent New York Times puff piece about first lady Jill Biden was a remarkably revealing anecdote. Following a nearly two-hour press conference in January, President Joe Biden was speaking to several senior staffers in the White House Treaty Room. In addition to the stumbling and bumbling we’ve grown accustomed to in Biden’s public appearances, he’d made several reckless statements about Russia’s then-imminent invasion of Ukraine that administration officials had to scramble to walk back.

One of the staffers in the room later told the New York Times that the first lady appeared and “demanded” to know why no one had intervened to end the press conference earlier. The staffer said she was very upset and wanted to know “who was supposed to end the news conference.”