Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas responded to a “Saturday Night Live” sketch that used him to poke enjoyable at President Biden’s age on Sunday.
“SNL” depicted Mayorkas interviewing with CNN’s Dana Bash, an interview that ended up going down in actuality on Sunday morning on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
On the present, the actor depicting Mayorkas rejected claims that Biden was moving slowly on the border throughout his go to final week, saying he noticed the president perform superhuman feats of agility and energy.
“Behind closed doors, he’s a dynamo,” the faux-Mayorkas stated. “He went into beast mode. He said, ‘We gotta tighten this border. Look how easy I can cross it.’ Then he parkoured up to the top of the border wall. He front-flipped into the Rio Grande and came back up with a fish in his mouth.”
Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas responded to an “SNL” skit that used him to poke enjoyable at President Biden’s age on Sunday. (Getty Photos)
Bash requested Mayorkas concerning the sketch Sunday morning, asking, “Does that happen every day?”
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“We all need a little comic relief now and then. I thought George Clooney did a terrific job,” Mayorkas stated, cracking a joke of his personal. In actuality, Marcello Hernández performed Mayorkas.
Bash famous that the joke has a kernel of fact, in that various Individuals are involved about Biden’s age, whereas administration officers are likely to level to supposed examples of the president’s vitality not seen by the general public. Mayorkas continued this pattern in response to Bash.
“They should spend a bit of time with Joe Biden like I have done,” he responded earlier than providing an anecdote. “I prepare a lot for meetings with him and engagements with him because he’s remarkably detail-oriented, probing and operationally focused.”
“But no fishing in the Rio Grande?” Bash requested.
“Not for me,” Mayorkas stated.
Critics poked enjoyable at Biden for shifting slowly throughout his go to to the U.S.-Mexico border final week at Brownsville, Texas. (Getty Photos)
Biden visited the U.S.-Mexico border in Brownsville, Texas, final week, holding a competing event with former President Trump, who visited the far more closely trafficked Eagle Go, Texas.
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Knowledge from U.S. Customs and Border Safety exhibits that Brownsville has seen simply 46 migrant encounters over the previous 5 days, in comparison with 2,106 in Eagle Go. The previous averaged 17 migrant encounters per day in February, whereas the latter averaged 462.
