Forget the impeachment trial – President Biden spent time playing video games with his granddaughter over a weekend at Camp David, the Maryland mountains presidential retreat.
Hunter Biden’s daughter Naomi Biden posted in an Instagram story on Saturday that her grandfather defeated her “badly” in a “Mario Kart” game.
“The secret service made an exception and allowed him to drive alone,” she posted, with a link to a short video of them playing video games. “A little rusty, but still won (narrowly).”
The White House said Biden and his family are spending the weekend at Camp David for the first time since he joined the White House in January.
In addition to meeting with his national security team, the president has nothing else on his agenda.
He arrived there Friday afternoon in a motorcade after Air Force One landed in Hagerstown, Maryland.
Despite the impeachment trial of his predecessor, President Donald Trump, which continues on Saturday, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Biden would “attend” a little of the trial, but said he would leave it to the Senate to decide on the outcome. .
Trump was acquitted in a 57-43 vote.
Biden’s administration was also involved in a scandal on Saturday when another spokesman, TJ Ducklo, resigned for allegedly threatening a reporter who planned to write about his relationship with another journalist.
The heavily protected mountain resort has enabled presidents since Dwight Eisenhower to escape the limelight.
Guests roam the rustic cottages using golf carts and can take advantage of the tennis courts, horseshoe fields, swimming pool, golf course, as well as sledding, ice skating and snowmobiling, the government says on its Camp David website.