President Biden Enrages Critics by Holding Ice Cream While Answering a Question about Ceasefire Deal

President Biden has actually finished it now. Seth Meyers and the President stepped out to get ice cream collectively and also you’d have thought Biden was charged with 91 felony indictments by the response. However no, that’s his seemingly opponent, Donald Trump.

Biden’s crime is… consuming ice cream, whereas answering a query in regards to the hopeful ceasefire deal.

Whereas visiting Van Leeuwen ice cream parlor at 5:30 PM, subsequent door to 30 Rock, President Biden was requested in regards to the ceasefire deal and he stated it may occur in Gaza by the tip of this weekend: “My nationwide safety adviser tells me that we’re shut, we’re shut. It’s not finished but. And my hope is that, by subsequent Monday, we’ll have a ceasefire.”

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— Acyn (@Acyn) February 26, 2024

Imagine it or not, persons are enraged that: Biden would eat ice cream by himself (he wasn’t by himself, however consuming ice cream alone is hardly bizarre), would “announce” a ceasefire whereas consuming ice cream (this hoped for ceasefire has been within the works for some time and he was responding to a query and once more), and customarily talking discover this so egregious that they’ll’t bear it. How dare he. That is the final straw.

Huh. It’s apparent that info aren’t actually in play right here, however nonetheless: President Biden was not truly *consuming* the ice cream whereas he answered.

The President additionally spoke in regards to the hoped for deal during his interview with Seth Meyers, saying partly, “There’s a path ahead, with issue… the hostages being held have to be launched. After which we’ve obtained a — and it’s a precept in settlement — there’ll be a ceasefire whereas that takes place. Ramadan’s arising and there’s been an settlement by the Israelis that they’d not interact in actions throughout Ramadan as effectively, with a purpose to give us time to get all of the hostages out…

“I feel that if we get that non permanent ceasefire, we’re going to have the ability to transfer in a path the place we will change the dynamic.”

This isn’t precisely breaking information, as U.S. negotiators had been engaged on this final week. For instance, Reuters reported on February twenty third a couple of hoped for ceasefire and launch of hostages held by Hamas, in addition to the Biden administration’s pivot away from Trump’s coverage by saying that Israels’ enlargement of settlements into occupied West Financial institution will not be in line with worldwide regulation:

The top of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service met representatives from Qatar, Egypt and the USA in what seems to be probably the most severe push in weeks to cease the combating and launch the hostages held by Hamas. The militant group’s leaders held separate talks in Cairo and are ready to listen to what comes from Paris. Palestinian officers stated Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan for Gaza as soon as the struggle ends could be doomed to fail. Israel stated it will assault Rafah, the place greater than one million Palestinians have sought shelter, if they can not attain a hostage deal.

A reversal: Israel’s enlargement of settlements within the occupied West Financial institution is inconsistent with worldwide regulation, the Biden administration stated. It is a return to the US coverage of 4 many years that the Trump administration did away with in 2019.

Are you able to think about what would have occurred if Biden had put down his ice cream to reply? Then he could be accused of being “too previous” to carry his ice cream cone and speak on the similar time.

If a ceasefire is admittedly what a few of these of us need, then complaining about Biden “asserting it” (when the remainder of us already knew it was within the works?) as a result of they don’t like that he’s consuming ice cream whereas doing so type of provides away the sport that there’s nothing Biden can do proper of their eyes. And that’s their proper! Dissent will not be solely allowed (at the least until they get their manner and Trump is in workplace), however inspired in a free nation.

Nonetheless, the ice cream police are giving Obama’s dad denims rage.

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