US President Joe Biden delivered a speech at the Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment Conference in New York Wednesday. However, more than his speech, a video of Biden that purportedly shows him standing confused on the stage after leaving the podium is going viral on Twitter.
The clip that focuses on Biden’s awkward and perplexed demeanour was posted on Twitter by RNC Research (@RNCResearch), a popular Twitter handle that describes itself as “Exposing the lies, hypocrisy, and failed far-left policies of Joe Biden and the Democrat Party”.
The video posted by the partisan Twitter handle has gathered over 2.5 million views and is prompting many to question Biden’s physical and mental faculties, with many claiming that the 79-year-old is not fit to be the US President.
However, many netizens have also pointed out that a longer and zoomed-out video of the incident shows that it appears that Biden was asked to stay on stage after his speech. Biden is soon joined by other world leaders and delegates for a group photo.
Where ya going, Big Guy? pic.twitter.com/hvMjZlprWb
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) September 21, 2022
Simply sad, but I no longer have any hope he has the mental facilities to walk off a stage without an escort. https://t.co/YXcJe2rOdP
— Jesus-J: S. (@JesusJS92837369) September 22, 2022
the whole video looks quite a bit different. He’s so much sharper than 45 ever was. At the end he apparently thought he was done, but then had to linger there until they called him and the others back up for a photo.https://t.co/pgWDZGwmTQ
— Bill The Conquerer (@BilltheConquer) September 21, 2022
Have you ever tried to leave a stage, that you are not familiar with, with bright lights in your eyes?! 🤔
Yeah, me neither! 😉— Keetoosya P (@KeetoosyaP) September 21, 2022
Listen, I’m very anti-Biden! But this video is a bit of a reach. He’s clearly talking someone and also talking to another on his right side. I don’t see anything wrong.
— ☪️🕋☪️🕋☪️🕋 (@mohamed_alxh) September 21, 2022
This is painful to watch.
Hollywood has been writing movies for decades on section 4 of the 25th Amendment. If there has ever been a time when the “President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office” … this appears to be the time. https://t.co/ezd60Kt4H4
— Mark Meuser for U.S. Senate (@MarkMeuser) September 22, 2022
It looked to me that he was leaving the stage until someone was signaling for him to stay there.
— Lee (@davileeslab) September 21, 2022
World leaders, members of civil society and the private sector gathered at the conference. The conference was held to organise a health fundraiser that aimed to raise funds to tackle AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
This year, the ambitious campaign managed to raise $14.25 billion from contributions from around the world. The US pledged $6 billion for the campaign, becoming the largest donor at the event.