WASHINGTON — Sir, this is the White House.
President Biden’s staff released a behind-the-scenes video Thursday of the retiring president ordering milkshakes and chatting with staff during his final days as commander in chief.
Biden, 82, was shown asking for the dairy treat twice — in one instance being told he’d have to wait for the blended confection to be prepared.
“I’m going to miss you. I just came down to say hi, and by the way, can you make me a milkshake?” the leader of the free world asked a staffer at the Navy Mess on the floor below the Oval Office.
“Yeah, just give me like five minutes,” the male staffer said.
In another clip, a female Mess employee said to the president: “A chocolate milkshake? You want one? On it, sir!”
Biden, joined by adviser Amos Hochstein, proceeds to walk around the executive grounds with a chocolate syrup-lined ice-cream-sundae glass.
“Honestly Biden aimlessly wandering the halls of the White House slurping a milkshake is pretty much how I thought the last 4 years went,” one X user snarked, summing up the thoughts of many conservatives. “It all tracks.”
“Oh, that’s cute!” the president also says, admiring a photo of himself with his grandson Beau at the Democratic National Convention in August, outside of what appears to be the ground-floor White House photo office.
The 80-second video has no clear narrative and opens with older footage of Biden labeled “2022-2024,” in which he praises the “positive attitude” of an aide who said they enjoyed the drizzle outside.
The executive mansion’s official X account captioned the video: “You never know who you will run into around the halls of the White House.”
In another clip, a staffer offers Biden his salad in a plastic container, apparently after Biden commented upon it.
“I mean, you can have it if you want. I can get another one,” the aide proposed.
In another scene, the president is greeted in the Oval Office’s entranceway by an assistant who claimed to have pictures of “your dogs and your cars” on the wall.
The aimless montage was published as Biden prepares to relinquish power Monday — after fellow Democrats forced him into retirement last summer over concern about his cognitive fitness.
Biden is expected to spend his final full day in office in South Carolina, whose Democratic primary in 2020 revived his struggling campaign and propelled him into the White House, before attending President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration the next day.
