Less than a year before the elections in the United States, President Joe Biden celebrated his 81st birthday this Monday. anniversary with the tradition of granting a “pardon” to turkeys that would become a Thanksgiving dinner.
“I hereby forgive [os perus] Liberty and Bell. “Congratulations, birds,” Biden said after one of the national Thanksgiving turkeys was placed on a table near the president.
The event marks the unofficial start of the Christmas season in Washington and also marked the celebration of the president’s 81st birthday, already the oldest in American history.
Age has become a growing issue for the president as Biden seeks re-election next year.
The issue has helped Biden’s popularity decline, but it was his stance on the war against Israel and the Islamist group Hamas that brought his approval rating to the lowest level of his presidency: 40%.
According to the latest national poll conducted by NBC News, a majority of voters disapprove of his foreign policy regarding the war between Israel and Hamas, and Biden is, for the first time, behind former President Donald Trump in voting intentions.
The difference, however, NBC News says, still remains within the poll’s margin of error.
Biden’s drop in popularity is most pronounced among Democrats – the party to which the president belongs -, most of whom believe that Israel has gone too far in its military action in Gaza, but also among voters between 18 and 34 years, with 70%. disapproving of his handling of the war.
His birthday was also marked by the arrival at the White House of a Fraser fir tree of more than 5.5 meters, which will be the official Christmas tree of the White House and which served as a way for Joe Biden to humorously address the issue of his age. .
“This is the 76th anniversary of this tradition. I want you to know that I wasn’t there for the first one,” he joked.
Next Thursday, Thanksgiving Day in the US, Biden will eat a turkey dinner with his family, which will be held on Nantucket, an island in Massachusetts, continuing a long family tradition.
On Sunday, the President and First Lady served an early Thanksgiving meal to hundreds of military personnel at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia.
Source: TSF
