“Joe Biden bite children for Halloween” : this is the title of several articles in the international press over the past few hours, this Thursday, October 31, such as Fox News (New window) and Dailymail (New window). In question? A Halloween evening at the White House, the last of Joe Biden’s mandate, where it is tradition for the presidential couple to receive disguised children who come to get some treats.
Donald Trump thus appeared in a garbage truck in the home stretch of his race for the White House against Kamala Harris. For his part, Joe Biden distinguished himself by playing with three disguised children and making them believe that he was going to eat them, supporting astonishing photos, once bringing his mouth towards the thigh of one child or another times… Enough to make some conspiracy theorists jump.
Obviously, Joe Biden, grandfather of seven grandchildren in “real” life, has not bitten or chewed a single toddler. It is a game, which, visibly, rather made the children and their parents smile.
Joe Biden bite children On the official video of the ceremony, we discover that he has fun for a few brief moments with the little children, one of whom is also dressed up… as a chicken. A moment which takes place, moreover, to the music of Jaws, played by an orchestra.
For her part, Jill Biden was dressed as a panda. Wearing a large red satin bow, the disguise also sparked an impressive number of reactions on the web. The reason: it is rather rare to see the First Lady of the United States in disguise during this ceremony. Jill Bien wanted to refer to the arrival of pandas at the National Zoological Park in Washington, mid-October, as reported by the American agency Associated Press (New window).
This is not the first time that a candy giveaway has sparked rather unpleasant comments for the tenant of the White House. A video dating from 2019 regularly appears on social networks: we see Donald Trump facing a Joe Biden bite children dressed as a Minion, taken from the film Despicable Me. The child, unable to use his hands with his costume, was then given a chocolate bar… on his head.
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