Biden's press conference gets panned by critics: 'Total disaster'

One commentor quipped, 'Joe Biden didn't do a press conference for months. We all understand the reason why.'

By Yael Halon | Fox News

 

Biden did nothing in this speech: Bongino

The 'Unfiltered' host breaks down Biden's press conference Wednesday on 'Fox News Primetime.'

President Biden spent most of 2021 avoiding press conferences, but he held one on Wednesday, which was panned as being a "total disaster." 

The White House had high hopes for Biden's press conference on Wednesday — hoping to paint the administration as a less-cloistered outfit that embraces the public and transparency. With Biden's strikingly low popularity numbers, the president was expected to cast himself as a competent leader, who is in touch with the problems of everyday American voters. 

But the debacle that took place behind the podium from the East Room of the White House on Wednesday did little to support that persona according to reaction to the press conference.

Fact Check: Did Biden Compare Opponents of His Agenda to Racist Segregationists? 

Katie Pavlich / Townhall Tipsheet

 

Speaking to reporters at the White House Wednesday afternoon, President Joe Biden was asked to explain his comparison of Republican and Democratic Senators to Democratic segregationists opposed to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He claimed he did not make the comparison. 

 

But the record and facts show Biden did make the comparison during a speech in Atlanta last week. 

"I ask every elected official in America: How do you want to be remembered?  At consequential moments in history, they present a choice: Do you want to be the side, on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace?  Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor?  Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?" Biden said according to the official White House transcript. "This is the moment to decide."

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