{"id":2214323,"date":"2024-04-06T09:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T13:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-report-card-biden-bumbles-over-transgender-easter-israel-betrayal\/"},"modified":"2024-04-06T09:56:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T13:56:28","slug":"white-house-report-card-biden-bumbles-over-transgender-easter-israel-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-report-card-biden-bumbles-over-transgender-easter-israel-betrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Report Card: Biden stumbles on transgender Easter issue, Israel controversy"},"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\">24<\/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-report-card-biden-bumbles-over-transgender-easter-israel-betrayal%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=2214323&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>This week&#8217;s \u2064White House Report Card highlighted President Joe\u200b Biden&#8217;s\u2064 attempts to cater to his liberal base but sparking controversy with abrupt\u200d policy decisions. Biden\u2019s declaration of Easter Sunday as &#8220;Transgender Day of Visibility&#8221; upset many Christians.\u200c Criticisms also arose over his \u2064administration&#8217;s stance on Israel and energy policies, \u2064resulting in mixed grades from analysts. The recent White House Report Card \u2064sheds\u2064 light\u2063 on \u2064President Joe Biden&#8217;s efforts to \u2062please his\u2064 liberal supporters, despite causing controversy \u2063with \u200dsudden policy announcements. \u200bThe declaration of Easter Sunday as &#8220;Transgender Day\u2063 of Visibility&#8221; faced backlash from numerous Christians. Additionally, critiques emerged regarding \u200bthe administration&#8217;s positions on Israel \u200cand energy strategies, leading to varying assessments from analysts.  <\/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>This week\u2019s White House Report Card finds President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> working overtime to please his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>liberal base<\/a> and angering the rest of the country with his knee-jerk political moves.<\/p>\n<p>Portrayed as a \u201cdevout Catholic,\u201d the president dismayed millions of Christians with a statement declaring Easter Sunday also as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/2946669\/biden-administration-trans-day-visibility-celebration-controversy\/\" title>Transgender Day of Visibility<\/a>.\u201d More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2024\/03\/29\/a-proclamation-on-transgender-day-of-visibility-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>639 words,<\/a> he embraced the day in a proclamation that he easily could have shelved since it would anger those more focused on Christ\u2019s resurrection. His Easter statement took up just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/03\/31\/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-easter-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>94 words.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He and his team also stepped up criticism of Israel over its defensive actions following the October Hamas attacks on innocent civilians. Israel gave the administration ammo by striking a convoy of aid workers from Chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s World Central Kitchen. Israel accepted blame for the deaths after the administration threatened to stop backing it, likely the biggest break ever between the allies.<\/p>\n<p>In grading the week an \u201cF,\u201d conservative analyst Jed Babbin raised several issues including Biden\u2019s decision to skip refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/oil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>oil<\/a> prices are too high, a situation he blamed the president for.<\/p>\n<p>In grading the week a \u201cC,\u201d Democratic pollster John Zogby highlighted positive job reports and some polls that show the president in a dead heat with challenger and former President Donald Trump despite Biden\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jed Babbin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Grade: F<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The entire week could be graded on one of President Joe Biden\u2019s actions. His declaration that Easter Sunday would be \u201cTransgender Visibility Day\u201d offended every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Christians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Christian<\/a> in the nation. Biden later denied having done so. He may not have realized what was going on given his ever-declining mental state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It would be unfair to grade Biden\u2019s week without mentioning some of the other disasters he and his crew were foisting on the American people and their allies. A lot had to do with Biden\u2019s \u201cgreen\u201d agenda.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Starting with his decision to not refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/average-u-s-gas-price-3-44-a-gallon-the-highest-since-2014\/\" title=\"Average U.S. gas price .44 a gallon, the highest since 2014\">higher oil prices<\/a> he has managed to cause. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/update-washington-d-c-mayor-muriel-bowser-was-warned-but-refused-any-additional-help-before-january-6th-vote-on-stolen-election\/\" title=\"UPDATE: Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser Was Warned but Refused Any Additional Help Before January 6th Vote on Stolen Election\">president decided<\/a> that oil prices were too high to refill the SPR, unlike the times when he drained the SPR to artificially lower gasoline prices at the pump for political purposes. There was no emergency when he did that so now we have no reserve if a real emergency arises.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And then there were the Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/electric-vehicle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>electric truck<\/a> rules which attempted to convert long-haul trucks to electric power. That, of course, further strains our already inadequate electric grid, which can\u2019t even power air conditioners in the summer without \u201cbrownouts\u201d<\/em> of some homes, factories and offices. The truck rule will also lower the amount of cargo each truck can haul (because of the weight of the batteries and the space they take up), raising the <em>prices of everything that\u2019s hauled by truck. Which is just about everything.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Biden\u2019s foreign policy hasn\u2019t improved. He is now threatening Israel with an end to U.S. aid unless Israel begins a one-sided ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu empowers his negotiators to get a deal to release the hostages Hamas took on Oct. 7. He ignored the fact that Netanyahu has said \u2014 at least a dozen times \u2014 that Hamas can have an extended ceasefire as soon as it releases the hostages. Biden \u2014 or whoever is making his decisions for him \u2014 hates Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/antony-blinken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Antony Blinken<\/a> promised that Ukraine will be a member of NATO soon. We should not go to war with Russia over Ukraine, yet Blinken\u2019s statement will enrage Russian President Vladimir Putin, who will go to war with us over Ukraine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And on a lighter note, Biden promised to take the Houthis off the terrorist list if they would just stop bombing ships in the Red Sea. YGBSM.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Zogby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Grade: C<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The numbers were good for President Joe Biden this week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A total of 303,000 new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jobs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>jobs<\/a> were created last month and the unemployment rate dropped a point, to 3.8%. Both of these exceeded expectations, as did a rise in wages averaging 4.1% over the past 12 months. That outpaced the rate of inflation and investors who are buoyed by the Federal Reserve\u2019s plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-stop-inflation-from-hurting-americas-working-and-middle-class\/\" title=\"How To Stop Inflation From Hurting America\u2019s Working And Middle Class\">lower interest rates<\/a> because of confidence in the economy.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Zogby Report | 04.05.24 - The Tragedy of Gaza\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pj_6II5chko?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em>The Israel Defense Forces killed seven aid workers for Chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s iconic World Central Kitchen, which angered the world and U.S. public opinion and amounted to a wet noodle rebuke from the president.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The race between Biden and former President Donald Trump remained in a dead heat, with the Democrat actually ahead in a few polls. But the battleground states need some shoring up by him. Meanwhile, the subject of his age has taken a back seat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jed Babbin<\/strong> is a <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> contributor and former deputy undersecretary of defense in the administration of former President George H.W. Bush. Follow him on X @jedbabbin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Zogby<\/strong> is the founder of the Zogby Survey and senior partner at <a href=\"https:\/\/johnzogbystrategies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>John Zogby Strategies.<\/a> His podcast with son and managing partner and pollster Jeremy Zogby <a href=\"https:\/\/johnzogbystrategies.com\/the-zogby-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>can be heard here.<\/a> Their firm polls for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Follow him on X @ZogbyStrategies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s White House Report Card sees President Joe Biden making efforts to appease his liberal supporters but causing backlash with hasty political decisions. Despite being labeled a &#8220;devout Catholic,&#8221; his announcement of Easter Sunday as &#8220;Transgender Day of Visibility&#8221; upset many Christians. 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