President Biden showed his notoriously thin skin when he rolled out his COVID-19 plan on Thursday, chiding a White House reporter who asked if his new goal of 1 million vaccine injections per day was too low.
‘When I announced it, you all said it’s not possible – come on, give me a break, man! It’s a good start, ”said Biden at the White House during his first full day at the office.
The reporter had asked Biden if his goal was ambitious enough given the current question.
‘Is that high enough? Shouldn’t you set the goal higher? That’s basically where the US is now, ‘the reporter shouted after Biden finished signing 10 executive orders related to the multi-faceted plan.
Biden took office on Wednesday with an estimate 912,497 vaccine doses Delivered daily under outgoing President Donald Trump, according to Bloomberg News data.
Biden brushed aside the question, got up from his desk abruptly, and walked out with Vice President Kamala Harris in tow.
He had signed executive decrees on the coronavirus pandemic several times before, including a new requirement that foreign visitors should be quarantined upon arrival.
This is far from the first time Biden has lost his temper with an interviewer at a public event.
At a campaign event in Wilmington, Del., In June 2020, Biden, 78, lashed out when a reporter asked about people, including Trump, who wondered if he was suffering from mental disabilities – the questioner noted his own mental decline. Age 65 and early if Biden was tested for cognitive decline.
“You’re a lying dog-head,” Biden said, apparently annoyed that the reporter kept asking questions as he tried to leave the event, before adding that he was “constantly being tested”.
That came after Biden called a college student a “ lying pony soldier with a dog face ” at a campaign event in New Hampshire in February 2020.
Mercer University student Madison Moore, 21, said it was “demeaning to be called a liar by the former vice president on national TV.”