{"id":1978742,"date":"2023-07-20T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-quietly-taking-steps-to-compensate-for-bidens-age-report\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T16:46:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:46:16","slug":"white-house-quietly-taking-steps-to-compensate-for-bidens-age-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-quietly-taking-steps-to-compensate-for-bidens-age-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: White House discreetly addressing Biden&#8217;s age-related concerns."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-quietly-taking-steps-to-compensate-for-bidens-age-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1978742&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Age: President Biden&#8217;s Biggest Obstacle in\u2064 the 2024 Election \u2062Cycle<\/h2>\n<p>Age\u200d is\u200c arguably President Joe\u200c Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-energy-sec-i-drive-on-sunshine\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Energy Sec: \u2018I Drive On Sunshine\u2019\">biggest obstacle<\/a>\u2062 heading into the \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-to-hold-first-presidential-primary-of-2024-election-cycle\/\" title=\"Nevada To Hold First Presidential Primary Of 2024 Election Cycle\">2024 election cycle<\/a>, and though his team has \u200cpublicly denied it being an issue, they have quietly taken steps\u2062 to account for \u200bthe \u200doctogenarian&#8217;s limitations.<\/p>\n<p>If \u2063reelected, Biden would be \u200b86 by the end of a second\u200b term. He is \u2063already the oldest person \u200cto ever serve \u200bas \u200cpresident.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden&#8217;s Staircase\u2064 Dilemma<\/h3>\n<p>A Wednesday report from Politico notes\u2062 that Biden\u2062 is\u2063 frequently forgoing the large, portable stairs at the \u2062main Air Force One entrance in favor \u200cof a smaller, retractable \u2063set near the cockpit. The president has taken a number of falls \u2062during his\u200c two-plus years in office while boarding Air Force One, in addition to \u2062his onstage tumble at the U.S.\u200b Air Force Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The undercarriage \u2062staircase has\u2064 only 14 steps, \u2064compared to nearly 30 on the larger set. The outlet noted that the larger, portable \u200cstaircase can oftentimes become \u2062slick regardless\u200b of\u200d the weather and are wobbly. Former President Barack Obama also nearly fell down \u2064those steps while deboarding Air Force \u200dOne in \u2062March\u200d of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Biden \u2062has \u2064not totally abandoned the grander AF1 staircase. During his recent trip to Europe, he frequently de-planed via the\u200c larger \u2062staircase after landing where countries had rolled out the red\u2062 carpet for his \u2063visits. Still, he used the smaller stairs during every departure that trip, and again during both departures surrounding\u2062 his Thursday visit to Philadelphia Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Pressed on this protocol shift during a recent\u200d press gaggle, \u200cWhite \u200cHouse press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said she \u200chad nothing to \u2063add on the\u200d subject.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t have any \u200cdecision process\u200d to\u2062 walk through,&#8221;\u200b she told reporters. &#8220;I\u2019m sure\u2062 there\u2019s a protocol that\u2019s used for the\u2064 \u2014 for Air Force One. I just don\u2019t \u2064have one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Two anonymous White House\u2063 officials, however, told Politico \u200cthat there\u2063 has been a concerted effort \u200cby \u200bstaff to direct \u2064the president to the \u2062shorter staircase.<\/p>\n<p>Though Biden remains relatively\u200d healthy \u2062compared to others his age, his physician has commented on his limited\u2062 capacities in recent\u200c years. His most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-rep-lee-under-fire-for-restrictive-gun-control-policies\/\" title=\"Texas Rep. Lee under fire for restrictive gun control policies\">recent bill<\/a>\u2062 of health noted a significantly\u2062 stiffened gait. The president \u2063has\u200b also been suffering from some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-quietly-taking-steps-to-compensate-for-bidens-age-report\/\" title=\"Report: White House discreetly addressing Biden's age-related concerns.\">lingering foot pain resulting<\/a> from\u2062 an \u200cinjury\u200c he suffered \u200bduring the 2020 transition, and frequently foregoes his staple dress shoes \u200dfor sneakers while traveling to and\u2064 from \u2062Camp\u200c David and \u2064his homes in Delaware.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biden will turn 82 \u2062years old soon after the 2024 election.<\/strong> The White House did not return\u2063 the Washington Examiner&#8217;s requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age is President Joe Biden&#8217;s main hurdle for the 2024 election. Despite public denial, his team has discreetly addressed his limitations. If reelected, Biden would be 86 at the end of a second term, already making him the oldest person to hold office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1978743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}