Social media trolled Ashley Biden for being a chip off her father Joe’s old block during a speech at the White House Pride Month celebration on Wednesday.
Biden, 43, is the president’s only daughter from his marriage to first lady Jill. She attended the ceremony on the south lawn with her mother.
While speaking in a glamorous rainbow-colored dress about the need to protect LGBTQ youth, at one point she stumbled over her words.
She was captured in a video clip mixing up the ‘T’ and ‘G’ in LGBTQ, leading some to say she resembled my dear old dad.
‘Ashley Biden… Like father, like daughter,’ wrote one commenter. ‘Maybe it’s not Joe’s age. Whatever it is, it might run in the family.’
Social media trolled Ashley Biden for being a chip off her father Joe’s old block during a speech at the White House Pride Month celebration on Wednesday.
The speech itself was a serious call for children to feel “loved, accepted and supported.”
He denounced how “too many LGBTQ children grow up in homes that don’t accept them” or how they are bullied.
After he was able to finish his sentence, he received applause from the South Lawn crowd for his comments.
Ashley’s father, who overcame a debilitating stutter growing up, is still known for his gaffes, to the point that some doubt the 81-year-old president’s ability to lead a second term.
A bombshell Justice Department report found that Biden, who illegally withheld classified federal documents, should not be prosecuted by the agency because a jury would likely find the president to be “a sympathetic, well-meaning old man with a short memory” and would not side with the Justice Department.
The Justice Department’s assessment of Biden later led some lawmakers to call for invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president for incompetence.
The Justice Department’s assessment of Biden later led some lawmakers to call for invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president for incompetence.
The president, who did not appear at the ceremony, marked Pride Month on Wednesday by pardoning veterans who were convicted of violating anti-gay sex laws while in service.
Biden, 43, is the president’s only daughter from his marriage to first lady Jill. She attended the ceremony on the south lawn with her mother.
She was captured in a video clip mixing up the ‘T’ and ‘G’ in LGBTQ, leading some to say she looked like my dear dad.
Biden’s action grants a pardon to service members who were convicted under the former Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which criminalized sodomy.
The law, which has existed since 1951, was rewritten in 2013 to prohibit only forcible acts.
Those covered by the pardon may request to receive proof that their conviction has been expunged and request that their military discharge be updated.
The president’s use of his pardon powers comes during Pride Month and his action comes just days before he holds a high-profile fundraiser with LGTBQ donors in New York on Friday.
Biden is trying to build support within the Democratic-leaning community ahead of the presidential election.
Biden is estimated to have the support of about 68 percent of registered LGBTQ voters, according to GLADD. On the other hand, her Republican rival Donald Trump has only 15 percent.
One of Biden’s first acts in office was to push back on a Trump-era gang about transgender people serving in the military.
By comparison, one of Trump’s first acts was to roll back health care protections for the transgender community that had previously been covered by Obamacare.
First lady Jill Biden hugs Ashley Biden, daughter of US President Joe Biden, during a Pride celebration on the South Lawn.
The Bidens preached about making LGBTQ youth feel loved, supported and accepted at home and school
In 2019, Trump became the first Republican president to recognize Pride month as his approval numbers. diminished.
Administration officials declined to say why Biden did not act sooner on the pardons.
This is Biden’s third categorical pardon (using his clemency powers to cover a broad group of people convicted of specific crimes) after actions taken in 2022 and 2023 to pardon those convicted at the federal level of marijuana possession.
The White House estimates that several thousand service members will be covered; most convicted before the military instituted the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in 1993, which cleared the way for LGBTQ troops to serve if they didn’t reveal their sexual orientation.
That policy was repealed in 2011, when Congress allowed open service in the military.
Service members convicted of non-consensual acts are not covered by Biden’s pardon action.
And those convicted under other sections of the military justice code, which may have been used as a pretext to punish or expel LGBTQ troops, would have to apply for clemency through the Justice Department’s normal clemency process.
Biden had previously ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to take steps to provide benefits to service members who were not honorably discharged because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or HIV status.