Joe Biden’s handlers should think twice before letting him speak about serious subjects. Whether it’s his advanced age (80), or lack of decorum, taste, or class, he added to his highlight reel of bizarre and odd behavior In Washington as he addressed the media about the horrible shooting at a Nashville school. 

There’s a difference between being unable to read a teleprompter and being incredibly insensitive —and he’s fully capable of both.

Shortly after the tragedy, he spoke in the East Room of the White House to a group of female business owners and began his talk by joking about ice cream.  Saying it’s what got him to come to the room in the first place. 

“My name is Joe Biden. I’m Dr. Jill Biden’s husband. And I eat Jeni’s ice cream — chocolate chip. I came down because I heard there was chocolate chip ice cream. By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs. You think I’m kidding? I’m not.”

Shortly after he was able to pivot — and use the terrible event in Tennessee to call for an immediate ban on assault weapons, his comments about the damage these shootings are doing to the country sounded more Presidential and appropriate. But what’s concerning is the lack of awareness to go down the path of making such bizarre statements. 

“We have to do more to stop gun violence; it’s ripping our communities apart — ripping the soul of this nation. And we have to do more to protect our schools, so they aren’t turned into prisons.”

That should have been the end of it and would have been for probably any other president ever.  But Biden brought back his strange fascination for ice cream, recognizing that Jeni’s Splendid Ice cream was involved in the event. 

“…and by the way, it is splendid. If I were allowed to take you upstairs, you got a whole freezer full of Jeni’s chocolate chip ice cream … You know it’s pretty dull when you’ve been in public life as long as I have and you’re known for two things: chocolate chip ice cream and Ray-Bans sunglasses, but what the hell?”

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