Joe Biden has called off a four-day trip to Germany this week that had been intended to culminate in a summit to discuss Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “victory plan” for Ukraine.
The White House said on Tuesday evening that the president would stay at home “to oversee preparations for and the response” to Hurricane Milton, which is expected to make landfall in Florida on Wednesday.
It was not clear how Biden’s absence would affect the planned summit, the first time world leaders were due to gather at the Ramstein US airbase, normally the location of a regular meeting of defence ministers to discuss military aid for Kyiv.
Biden didn’t necessarily pull out of the summit. He’s attending to the natural disaster that is happening in the country that he is president of. Jesus fucking christ.
And it would do Ukraine far more harm than good if the hurricane was bad and Trump could frame it as Biden visiting Ukraine instead of attending to it. He’s been doing it over Helene even when the response was unilaterally viewed as acceptable.
I think the word you want is universally. Unilaterally could mean that just one side viewed it as ok.
Right? It’s like not showing up to the Monday morning meeting because your basement flooded. Give the man credit where it’s due
They never do. Biden was a good president. And yet, everybody hates him. The right hate him, because they hate everybody on the left. The left hate him for reasons I don’t understand. He’s the modern day Jimmy Carter. Great president that for some reason has his merrits diminished for reasons I may never understand.
The left hate him for reasons I don’t understand.
Most don’t, actually. But of the (probably small) subset who do:
Basically feel he’s too rightward. He had to shift right in order to win over some split ticket never trumper votes, which likely tipped him over the edge into winning the presidency. Then had to stay rightward in order to make sure he (or Harris now) wins re-election. Harris too is now coming off as more centralist and less progressive than she was in, for example, 2019.
Some lefties are also worried because they feel scandalized by what happened with Hunter Biden. This doesn’t really reflect on Joe imho but a few on the left disagree.
I thought the headline was in reference to pulling out of the presidental race. I was thinking "We’re about a month from election day. Kinda late to bring THAT up, isn’t it?
I had the same thought at first, haha.
I think they shouldn’t give up here though - if Biden can’t go and Harris (his second as VP) also can’t go in his place, there must be some cabinet level official who could travel and attend the summit instead.
Given that Harris will be the one actually overseeing the American response to this suggestion pretty soon if she wins the election, it seems to me like she might even be a more fitting representative than Biden
