During Wednesday’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that President Biden thinks he needs more “time to think” — despite Biden’s notoriously long vacation times.
A reporter asked Psaki about the speech Biden is intending to give on the anniversary of the January 6 riot at the Capitol.
“Can you talk about how the President is spending this day in terms of preparing to deliver this speech? How much is he focused on that today? Is he doing dry run-throughs? I mean, obviously, this is a significant moment,” the reporter asked.
“I know the president doesn’t have public events today,” Psaki said. “He does have a number of meetings with policy teams and that’s often what he’s doing behind the scenes.”
“If he were standing here today — which I know he’s always invited, is what you guys will say, but he would say we never give him any free time or any time to think,” she added. “And that is probably true.”
As The New York Post noted, however, “Biden, 79, is the oldest person to be president and returned Monday to the White House from his home in Wilmington, Del., where he routinely spends weekends. He took no reporter questions on Monday or Tuesday amid record-high COVID-19 cases caused by the more contagious Omicron variant.”
“The president has spent part of at least 95 days in Delaware, about 27 percent of his term so far, according to former CBS News reporter Mark Knoller, who is respected for his record-keeping on presidential statistics,” the outlet added.
The president’s days in Delaware rarely include work. Instead, The New York Post explains, “feature off-the-books visits from family and friends, bike rides and trips to attend church or visit the beach.”
“In addition to a less-than-grueling schedule of public events, Biden employs staff to post messages on his social media accounts — freeing up significant time compared to Donald Trump, who posted unfiltered dawn-to-dusk tweets nearly every day of his presidency,” The New York Post added.
