President Joe Biden awkwardly got up and left a live television interview on MSNBC Thursday afternoon while the cameras were still...
President Joe Biden awkwardly got up and left a live television interview on MSNBC Thursday afternoon while the cameras were still rolling.
“Deadline” host Nicole Wallace was wrapping up the softball interview when Biden slowly got out of his seat.
“Mr. President, thank you,” Wallace said as the president walked over and shook her hand.
In a clip of the show, Biden can be seen walking off set behind Wallace as she then looks into the camera previewing her next segment.
“Don’t go anywhere, it’s a very exciting day around here,” Wallace said to the audience. “We’ll have reaction and analysis to everything we just heard from the president.”
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Biden, 80, had several other awkward moments during the interview, including when he mixed up the the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution while discussing the Supreme Court’s ruling that race-based college admissions are illegal.
“Its value system is different, and its respect for our institutions is different,” Biden said of the Supreme Court. “And in that sense, it’s not as embracing of all, what I think the con—the Constitution says, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal, endowed by their creator.’ It’s the uniqueness of America – we’ve never fully lived up to it, we never walked away from it. And this court seems to say, ‘No, that’s not always the case.’ The idea that there’s no right of privacy in the Constitution, giving states power that we fought a war over in 1960 [sic]. You know, I just think it’s — this is not your father’s Republican Party.”
The quote that Biden said was from the Constitution is from the second paragraph in the Declaration of Independence.
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