Maybe it’s a good thing that he was 2,000 miles away.
President Biden had an embarrassing and seductive moment on Monday during a video conference with healthcare professionals in Arizona, during which he stopped to greet a nurse for her youthful appearance – even saying that she looked like “a freshman”.
Biden responded to some of his old “scary” antics when he responded to the nursing supervisor’s detailed description of giving COVID-19 injections by asking about his age.
“Are you a freshman at university?” Biden asked Brittney Hayes at the end of a conversation in which she exposed the process of getting vaccines to people at the State Farm Stadium vaccination site in Glendale.
“No. No, ”said Hayes, who described herself as Arizona State University at the beginning of the talk – but made it clear that she was the“ head nurse ”at the vaccination site.
“You look like a freshman!” Biden said, laughing.
“Thanks,” she said through her mask.
But Biden was not done.
After Vice President Kamala Harris asked questions, Biden continued to show disbelief that Hayes was a medical professional.
“And are you a – a nurse?” Biden said in the video call, which was broadcast publicly.
“I am, I am a nurse. I am an RN. I’ve been an RN for about nine years, ”she said. Registered nurses typically have at least two years of college education or a bachelor’s degree.
The president replied: “I know I was a big consumer of health care, I can say – I know that the vice president knows this, when I say it – doctors let you live, nurses make you want to live. If there are angels in heaven, they are all nurses, men and women. And this is not an exaggeration. This is the truth of God. “
Biden, 78, is famous for meddling in women’s personal space, sometimes while whispering advice in his ear or improvisingly massaging his neck.
Supporters of former President Donald Trump dubbed him “Creepy Joe” during the 2020 campaign and happily circulated montages of him doing so.
Biden was even forced to release a video near the start of his campaign in 2019, in which he acknowledged making people “uncomfortable” with his tactile gestures and promised to be “much more aware” in the future.
Biden’s interaction with the nurse came just days after “Saturday Night Live” host Colin Jost joked about his practical record at the beginning of the program’s “Weekend Update” segment.
“President Biden said on Friday that he will move forward with his $ 1.9 trillion stimulus plan, with or without Republican support – because this economy needs a massage and Joe Biden is not waiting for permission,” he said Jost.
The president’s virtual tour had more than one uncomfortable moment. In a different presentation, General Michael McGuire of the Arizona National Guard told Biden – who ended his presidential run in 1988 due to a plagiarism scandal – that other states are welcome to steal his COVID-19 plan from his state.
“Plagiarism is the highest form of flattery – that’s what we say – so if everyone wants to copy what Arizona is doing, we think we found it out here,” said McGuire.