The White House abruptly cut the livestreaming folks President Joe Biden’s speech in Idaho, where he met officials to debate the wildfires that are ravaging western us . The incident happened when Biden was asking an issue to an audience member.
That person was George Geissler of the national association of state foresters.
“Can I ask you a question?” Biden asked.
“Of course,” Geissler responded.
“One of the items that i have been performing on with some others is…” the US president had spoken only this much when the feed was cut and was replaced with “Thank you for joining” message.
The clip was posted on Twitter by the Republican National Committee.
The White House has thus far not responded on the difficulty .
This is not the primary time that such a thing went on with the 78-year-old US President. The livestrem was interrupted last month when Biden was close to answer a reporter’s question on American forces’ withdrawal from Afghanistan.
In March, Biden was attending a Democratic Party event and said he was “happy to answer” questions when the feed was cut, Fox News reported.
The buzz around abrupt ending of the President’s speech gained traction since Politico carried a report last week which quoted White House staffers as saying that they “mute” Biden’s remarks over worries that he will veer off the scheduled agenda prepared by his office.
The US President, meanwhile, used his visit to Idaho and other western states to carry out the wildfires burning across the region as an argument for his $3.5 trillion rebuilding plans. He called the year-round fires and other extreme weather a global climate change reality the state can not ignore.
“We can’t ignore the truth that these wildfires are being supercharged by global climate change ,” Biden said, noting that catastrophic weather doesn’t strike supported partisan ideology. “It isn’t about red or blue states. It’s about fires. Just fires.”