President Biden Enrages Critics by Holding Ice Cream Whereas Answering a Query about Ceasefire Deal

President Biden has actually accomplished 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 possible 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 might occur in Gaza by the top of this weekend: “My nationwide safety adviser tells me that we’re shut, we’re shut. It’s not accomplished but. And my hope is that, by subsequent Monday, we’ll have a ceasefire.”

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Biden: My hope is by subsequent Monday, we’ll have a ceasefire pic.twitter.com/McOts5EzGf

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 26, 2024

Consider 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 information 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 partially, “There’s a path ahead, with difficulty… the hostages being held should be launched. After which we’ve received a — and it’s a precept in settlement — there’ll be a ceasefire whereas that takes place. Ramadan’s developing and there’s been an settlement by the Israelis that they might not have interaction in actions throughout Ramadan as properly, to be able to give us time to get all of the hostages out…

“I believe that if we get that momentary ceasefire, we’re going to have the ability to transfer in a route the place we will change the dynamic.”

This isn’t precisely breaking information, as U.S. negotiators have been engaged on this final week. For instance, Reuters reported on February twenty third a few 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’ growth of settlements into occupied West Financial institution isn’t 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 preventing 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 conflict ends could be doomed to fail. Israel stated it might assault Rafah, the place greater than 1,000,000 Palestinians have sought shelter, if they can not attain a hostage deal.

A reversal: Israel’s growth 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 old” to carry his ice cream cone and discuss on the identical time.

If a ceasefire is basically what a few of these of us need, then complaining about Biden “announcing 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 sort of offers away the sport that there’s nothing Biden can do proper of their eyes. And that’s their proper! Dissent isn’t solely allowed (at the very least until they get their method 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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