Joe Biden was seen leaving after shopping for clothes at his home in Delaware, while the president was seen at his usual weekend haunts for the Memorial Day holiday.
Biden, 81, the oldest president in US history, was seen slowly exiting a Jos. A. Bank in Greenville holding a bag and accompanied by several Secret Service agents.
The president put on his famous aviator sunglasses before returning to his vehicle.
Greenville is a short drive from Wilmington, where the Biden family compound is located.
Biden is known for preferring his weekends in his home state to Washington or Camp David during his presidency.
Joe Biden was seen leaving after shopping for clothes at his home in Delaware, while the president was seen at his usual weekend haunts for the Memorial Day holiday.
It was a busy day for the president, as he delivered the commencement address earlier Saturday at the West Point Military Academy in New York.
Biden was accused of repeating an old lie that he was appointed to a Naval Academy in 1965.
The president had been delivering the commencement address at West Point Military Academy, New York, when he made the remarks to 1,036 cadets.
During the ceremony, Biden told the crowd of graduates that he had been “nominated” to the Naval Academy.
Biden said, “I was appointed to the Naval Academy by a guy I ran against when I was 29.” I was one of ten, I wanted to play football.
“On the day I was supposed to go for the interview, a classmate of mine who was also one of the ten designated to be chosen.”
Biden continued: ‘He came to pick me up, I found out two days before that they had a quarterback named Roger Staubach and a running back named Joe Bellino. I said, “Oh, I’m not going there, I went to Delaware.”
Biden had previously made this same claim while addressing 2022 graduates of the US Naval Academy.
It was a busy day for the president, as he gave the commencement address at West Point Military Academy in New York on Saturday.
President Joe Biden arrives at the Jos A. Bank store in Greenville, Delaware
Biden said Delaware Sen. J. Caleb Boggs, whom he ran against in 1972, had tried to get him into the Annapolis school seven years earlier.
The New York Post reported at the time that Delaware Historical Association curators sought Academy nominations “box by box.”
Chief Curator Leigh Rifenburg had told the outlet that the president’s claim was “unlikely.”
Also during his speech on Saturday, the president faltered in a sentence when talking about Putin and NATO.
He said: ‘Putin was sure that NATO would fracture right after I was sworn in. We talked about this same topic.
‘The fall, he tied her up, that fall decided, look, I probably shouldn’t get into this. But she excites me a little.’
Gaffes aside, the president used his speech to emphasize the critical role of US support for its allies around the world, including Israel, Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific.
Biden described US soldiers as “working around the clock” to support Ukraine in its effort to repel a two-year Russian invasion, but reiterated his commitment to keeping them off the front lines.
The president had been delivering the commencement address at West Point Military Academy, New York, when he gave the speech to about 1,000 cadets.
“We stand firm with Ukraine and we will stand with them,” Biden told the crowd to applause.
He also highlighted the United States’ role in repelling Iranian missile attacks against Israel and supporting allies in the Indo-Pacific against growing Chinese militarism in the region.
“Thanks to the United States Armed Forces, we are doing what only the United States can do as an indispensable nation, the world’s only superpower,” Biden said.
As vice president, he twice addressed a graduating class of cadets at the academy about 40 miles north of New York City, but this was his first time as president.
Donald Trump, Biden’s Republican rival in the 2024 election, was the last president to speak at a graduation ceremony at West Point, in 2020.
The weekend comes after another tough week of headlines for the president as he tries to win a second term.
Much of the news came from Republicans who had supported the president in 2020 saying that Biden was losing their support this time.
Republican Gov. Chris Sununu predicts Biden’s $167 billion student loan forgiveness plan will actually backfire on him.
Sununu tells DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview this week that no debt is actually being eliminated.
Just this week, Biden canceled another $7.7 billion for 160,000 Americans, in an initiative that critics see as an attempt to “buy votes” before the 2024 elections.
But Sununu told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview this week that no debt is actually being eliminated.
He says Biden’s “26-year-old progressive socialist advisors” who are “very politically passionate” but “have no idea what’s really happening in America with inflation” are to blame.
‘Biden is going to come out and add gasoline to that fire. And then bragging about it’ will cost him the election, Sununu tells DailyMail.com.
Meanwhile, Christopher Shays, a former Republican congressman from Connecticut who voted for Biden in 2020, now says he is “unlikely” to make the jump to the presidency again this November.
He asked: “Many of us are struggling with the question of how we can support him when he has gone so far to the left.”
Shays, who served in the House from 1987 to 2009, is now considering voting for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
According to a New York Times report, Shays shares the sentiments of many Republicans who went for Biden in 2020, saying they felt largely ignored during his tenure.
As Joe Biden continues to try to chase Donald Trump to win re-election, some Republicans who voted for him in 2020, like Christopher Shays (pictured), are struggling to commit to switching sides for a second time.
The latest blow to Biden’s efforts to court the Republican Party: Nikki Haley’s admission that she will vote for Trump.
A series of recent polls have shown Trump trailing or ahead of Biden in swing states he won in 2020.
And according to a New York Times poll this month, Biden trails Trump in five of six crucial battleground states.