First lady Jill Biden narrowly avoided embarrassment Friday as her recently married granddaughter Naomi was forced to spring into motion to maintain Jill’s dress from blowing over her head.
The 71-year-old nearly channeled her inner “Seven Yr Itch” as she landed in breezy Nairobi, Kenya — her last stop on a five-day African tour.
Naomi, 29, who wed Peter Neal on the South Lawn of the White House Nov. 19, discreetly held down the primary lady’s skirt after it blew past her knees upon exit from the plane.
Later Friday, Jill Biden reiterated to the Associated Press that her husband, 80-year-old President Biden, will seek a second term in 2024.
“He says he’s not done. He’s not finished what he’s began. And that’s what’s vital,” she told the outlet.
“How repeatedly does he should say it so that you can imagine it?”
Politico reported earlier this week that some Democrats have gotten restless at the dearth of a promised campaign kickoff by the president.
But the primary lady said Friday that “just about” every thing has been settled except the precise time and place for an official announcement.
When asked how she could possibly be sure of her husband’s plans, Jill Biden initially answered: “Because I’m his wife.”
“In fact he’ll hearken to me, because we’re a married couple,” she added — before backtracking barely to say that the president “makes up his own mind, imagine me.”
The AP, citing Biden aides, reported that an announcement is more likely to are available April after the primary fundraising quarter ends. The president’s former boss, Barack Obama, announced his re-election campaign launch on April 4, 2011.
Joe Biden, the oldest-ever president, has indicated that he’ll try for one more term so long as he feels physically as much as the job, despite occasional questions on his cognitive abilities.
The president has steadily misspoken in the midst of his official duties, repeatedly referring to his vp as “President Harris” and once welcoming former President Bill Clinton to “Congress” at an event held on the White House.
Biden also infamously tried to search out the late Rep. Jacki Walorski (R-Ind.) at an event this past September, asking “Where’s Jackie?” regardless that he had publicly mourned her death in a automotive crash the month before. He later apologized to Walorski’s family.
White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor relayed in his report on Biden’s physical last week that the president suffers from “spinal arthritis” and needed to have a “small lesion” faraway from his chest for skin cancer testing.
Jill Biden similarly shared with the Associated Press that she has been battling a skin cancer diagnosis after doctors removed basal cell lesions in January.
“I’m lucky,” she said. “Consider me, I’m so lucky that they caught it, they removed it, and I’m healthy.”
The primary lady’s African tour was focused on food shortages within the region brought on by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“I just desired to say on the one-year anniversary of Ukraine that not a day goes by that I don’t consider President Zelensky, Olena, their family, and all of the people in Ukraine,” Jill Biden told reporters on her plane, “and what they’re going through and the way hard they’re fighting to maintain their freedom.”