{"id":2210634,"date":"2024-04-01T13:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T17:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-speaker-johnson-thoroughly-uninformed-over-easter-criticism\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T13:43:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T17:43:29","slug":"biden-calls-speaker-johnson-thoroughly-uninformed-over-easter-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-speaker-johnson-thoroughly-uninformed-over-easter-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden criticizes Speaker Johnson as &#8216;misinformed&#8217; on Easter remarks"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fbiden-calls-speaker-johnson-thoroughly-uninformed-over-easter-criticism%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=2210634&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--><p>President Joe Biden criticized Representative Mike Johnson from Louisiana for accusing him of disregarding the essence of Easter. Johnson alleged Biden removed religious symbols from the\u200d White House Easter Egg Roll and designated Easter Sunday as\u200c &#8220;Transgender Day of Visibility.&#8221; \u2064Biden denounced these\u200c claims, calling them &#8220;outrageous \u2062and abhorrent.&#8221; The controversy between\u2063 them sparked significant public attention.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> called Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) \u201cthoroughly uninformed\u201d after he accused the president of betraying the \u201ccentral tenet of Easter.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Johnson shared a post claiming that Biden stripped religious iconography from parts of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>White House<\/a> Easter Egg Roll and said his decision to declare Easter Sunday the \u201cTransgender Day of Visibility\u201d was \u201coutrageous and abhorrent.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The Biden White House has betrayed the central tenet of Easter \u2014 which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n<p>Banning sacred truth and tradition\u2014while at the same time proclaiming Easter Sunday as \u201cTransgender Day\u201d\u2014is outrageous and abhorrent. The American people are taking note. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZCExyVkAVS\">pic.twitter.com\/ZCExyVkAVS<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerJohnson\/status\/1774147658841493617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe American people are taking note,\u201d Johnson posted on X, accompanied by screenshots of two headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the speaker\u2019s claim following his remarks at Monday\u2019s egg roll, Biden told reporters, \u201cI didn\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s thoroughly uninformed,\u201d the president added.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s comments were part of a larger backlash from Republicans over the headlines, prompting the White House to note that the International Transgender Day of Visibility is held on March 31 each year and happened to coincide with Easter this year.<\/p>\n<p>Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at Monday\u2019s briefing that the White House was \u201csurprised by the misinformation that\u2019s been out there around this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor folks who understand the calendar and how it works, Easter falls on different Sundays, right, every year, and this year, it happened to coincide with Transgender Visibility Day, and so that is the simple fact,\u201d she said. \u201cThis misinformation out there is just \u2014 it\u2019s just bad, and it is dividing us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The White House also noted that there has been a ban on religious imagery at the White House Easter Egg Roll since 1978.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a Christian who celebrates Easter with family, President Biden stands for bringing people together and upholding the dignity and freedoms of every Americans,\u201d White House spokesman Andrew Bates told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. \u201cSadly, it\u2019s unsurprising politicians are seeking to divide and weaken our country with cruel, hateful, and dishonest rhetoric. President Biden will never abuse his faith for political purposes or for profit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden slammed Speaker Mike Johnson, labeling him &#8220;thoroughly uninformed.&#8221; Johnson had accused Biden of betraying Easter&#8217;s essence. Johnson&#8217;s post alleged that Biden removed religious symbols from the White House Easter Egg Roll and designated Easter Sunday as &#8220;Transgender Day of Visibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2210635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24092559151034-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24092559151034-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210634","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\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}