President Biden went up to the University of Hartford this afternoon for a gun safety summit. The White House hasn’t posted the transcript of his remarks yet, but local news is on the story with video posted here.
Biden arrived late and opened his remarks with the assertion that, “as a kid I came out of a different movement — the civil rights movement.” That seems to be something of a recurring dream of his. We’ve heard it before. He concluded his remarks with a baffling new hallucination: “God save the queen, man” (video below).
Biden wraps up his remarks in Connecticut: "Alright, God save the queen, man" pic.twitter.com/NJShsIA1eg
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 16, 2023
The pool reporters have no idea what he was talking about. They are tired of being asked. Quit badgering them. Badger KJP!
BREAKING: @POTUS ended his gun control event in Connecticut just now with a baffling remark: “God save the Queen, man.” @WhiteHouse correspondent @toddgillman of @dallasnews, today’s pool reporter, told the press corps to stop asking him why Mr. Biden said it (Gillman: “I have… pic.twitter.com/KDcOkaJJih
— James Rosen (@JamesRosenTV) June 16, 2023
The intrepid Byron York puts it in historical context below.
Reporters, and everybody else, baffled that President Biden blurts out, 'God save the queen.' I have no explanation other than that he has in the past said the same thing in comparably odd contexts. This was January 6, 2017, from OBSESSION: https://t.co/Z1DA8G9gVQ https://t.co/IeVRRyit1l pic.twitter.com/1QFoT1frj8
— Byron York (@ByronYork) June 16, 2023
