{"id":299246,"date":"2021-03-24T10:15:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=299246"},"modified":"2021-03-24T10:15:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:15:33","slug":"white-house-keeps-changing-excuse-for-why-biden-fell-on-air-force-one-stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-keeps-changing-excuse-for-why-biden-fell-on-air-force-one-stairs\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Keeps Changing Excuse For Why Biden Fell On Air Force One Stairs"},"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\">28<\/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-keeps-changing-excuse-for-why-biden-fell-on-air-force-one-stairs%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=299246&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-3114.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After President Joe Biden stumbled repeatedly while mounting the stairs of Air Force One last Friday, the jokes almost wrote themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAir Force One Now Equipped With Handicap Parking Pass,\u201d The Babylon Bee <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/air-force-one-now-equipped-with-handicap-parking-pass\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cPutin Challenges Biden To Stair-Climbing Contest,\u201d the satire site <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/putin-challenges-biden-to-stair-climbing-contest\">wrote<\/a> in another piece.<\/p>\n<p>The memes were also great: In one, former President Donald Trump is seen hitting a drive on a golf course three times, with each of his balls then hitting Mr. Biden, causing him to stumble.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.0093457943925\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It wasn\u2019t the wind folks. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jYc01dBZCe\">pic.twitter.com\/jYc01dBZCe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldJTrumpJr\/status\/1372982815109840898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another meme showed a photoshopped video of Biden sitting on an Easy Climber stair lift on the Air Force One staircase.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.9787234042553\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Probably due to the high influx of new Biden memes.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2PMvO7lxWt\">pic.twitter.com\/2PMvO7lxWt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Khb7rw4KeV\">https:\/\/t.co\/Khb7rw4KeV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1372966762422153238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But there was something not as funny beneath the hilarious surface (and look, the 78-year-old president wasn\u2019t hurt at all in the repeated stumbles, which means we can laugh at the whole thing).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what the silly little story exposed (even more): Media bias.<\/p>\n<p>When Trump held onto a railing while walking down a slippery ramp during a trip to West Point in the heat of the 2020 presidential campaign, The New York Times wrote a piece headlined, \u201cTrump\u2019s Halting Walk Down Ramp Raises New Health Questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Trump \u2014 who turned 74 on Sunday, the oldest a U.S. president has been in his first term \u2014 was recorded hesitantly descending the ramp one step at a time after he delivered an address to graduating cadets at the New York-based academy on Saturday,\u201d The Times reported June 14, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Other mainstream media piled on, and in September, Biden joked, \u201cWatch how I run up ramps and he stumbles down ramps. OK? Come on!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now remember, Trump didn\u2019t fall, he just took caution not to fall.<\/p>\n<p>And Biden fell \u2014 and not once, but three times. The third time he almost hit his head on the stairs as he struggled to hang onto the railing.<\/p>\n<p>About that, the Times wrote this headline: \u201cBiden \u2018Doing 100 Percent Fine\u2019 After Tripping While Boarding Air Force One.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The paper also ran some cover for the stumbling, bumbling Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty windy outside,\u201d Karine Jean-Pierre, the principal deputy press secretary, told reporters traveling with Biden to Georgia on Friday,\u201d the Times wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s very windy. I almost fell coming up the steps myself. He is doing 100 percent fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield, meanwhile, said Friday that Biden\u2019s stumbling was \u201cnothing more than a misstep on the stairs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But those two excuses morphed even more Monday, when press secretary Jen Psaki said it wasn\u2019t the wind, it was the \u201ctricky\u201d stairs leading to the door of the presidential aircraft that caused Biden to stumble over and over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve been up those steps, they\u2019re a little tricky sometimes,\u201d Psaki said, adding that the Biden is \u201c100% fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, which is it: A misstep? The wind? Some tricky stairs? Who knows. Psaki also dodged questions about whether Biden saw a doctor afterward.<\/p>\n<p>The evolving excuses and the MSM\u2019s lack of interest in the story didn\u2019t escape the eyes of Donald Trump Jr., who pounced on the unbalanced coverage (and president).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember the press bashing Trump for touching the rail once. Biden falls repeatedly but I\u2019m sure he\u2019s the picture of health. No wonder all our enemies are pouncing simultaneously and mocking him publicly,\u201d he wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The Babylon Bee also mocked the changing tale. \u201cWhite House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked if the new parking permit had anything to do with the President\u2019s recent fall on the stairs of Air Force One.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d Psaki said. \u201cThe President slipped because he was hit with a hurricane-force wind burst caused by global warming. There was also some, uh, fried chicken grease left over from the Trump administration that made the steps extra slippery.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former president also jumped into the fray.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat tumble was terrible. It wasn\u2019t really one, it was three, and it wasn\u2019t mentioned for the most part in the lamestream media,\u201d Trump told Newsmax in a phone interview Monday. \u201cIt\u2019s terrible, the whole thing is incredible. There\u2019s no longer freedom of the press.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also explained why he took it easy down that ramp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActually when I went down the ramp at West Point, which was like a sheet of ice with no railing, no nothing \u2014 great planning \u2014 I wanted to go inch by inch because the last thing I wanted to do was take a tumble like Biden did,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But then Newsmax host Greg Kelly asked, \u201cWere you as shocked as I was\u201d at the lack of MSM coverage?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expected it, actually,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>As we all should by now.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Joseph Curl covered the White House for a dozen years and ran the Drudge Report for four years. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter at @JosephCurl. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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