For several weeks, pro-Donald Trump accounts have been sharing videos mocking the American president. This Monday, June 17, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre strongly denounced these methods.
“Discount fakes”: the White House denounced this Monday, June 17, the distribution by the conservative camp of videos supposed to prove a mental and physical decline of Joe Biden, arguing that the images had been truncated and manipulated.
“This shows you how desperate the Republicans are,” said the spokesperson for the American executive, Karine Jean-Pierre, during her daily press briefing, speaking of “cheapfake videos” ).
She was reacting to the broadcast in recent days on social networks, by conservative media, notably the New York Post, or by an official account of the Republican Party, of short videos which at first glance are damning for the American president.
“I didn’t know that not dancing was indicative of a health problem”
In one of the videos, the 81-year-old Democrat appears completely disoriented as he watches a skydiving show with other G7 leaders during a summit last week in Italy.
Karine Jean-Pierre indicated that Joe Biden had knowingly moved away from the group to congratulate one of the paratroopers, which we realize “by letting the video continue a little longer”.
Another highly commented sequence: a close shot of Joe Biden completely frozen during a concert given recently at the White House, and described by the octogenarian’s adversaries as an episode of mental confusion. “The president was there listening to the music and he was not dancing. You will excuse me. I did not know that not dancing was indicative of a health problem,” quipped Karine Jean-Pierre.
Finally, the White House was outraged this weekend after the broadcast in the conservative and Trumpist sphere of a video taken from a political meeting in Los Angeles. We see Joe Biden appearing lost on the stage, before his predecessor Barack Obama takes his wrist and guides him towards the exit.
“The New York Post, once again, disrespects its readers,” another White House spokesperson, Andrew Bates, criticized on the social network . The spokesperson assured that the American president had only lingered on the stage to enjoy the applause of his supporters.
The age of the American president is a major concern among voters, according to polls, and a recurring angle of attack from his great rival Donald Trump. The former president and Republican candidate, who at 78 years old is not much younger than Joe Biden, does not raise the same questions about his physical and mental form, despite his sometimes disjointed statements.
