Joe's taking another vacation at taxpayer expense before he leaves office. He's loading up Air Force One and kicking off his new year in Rome, Italy! Let the grift begin.
The president allegedly sprung this three-day trip on his White House staff, codenamed "President Actual," at the last minute. They've ordered Air Force One to get gassed up before the Jan. 9 start and told the ambassador to vacate the Villa Taverna, because he's staying until Jan. 12.
Actually, we don't really know where Joe's staying, but we have that in common with Joe. He often doesn't know where he's going or where he is. Indeed, he routinely has no idea what day it is, what he's doing, what to say, and with whom he's saying it.
Where will he stay? In her one-paragraph statement at the White House presser, where, incidentally, not one reporter asked about the Wall Street Journal piece about his ever-worsening dementia, we didn't get the intel on how this trip came about, why it's happening now, or where he will stay.
Whether it's the ambassador's fifteenth-century home sitting on an estate with ancient wine grapes from the St. Silvester Monastery, a billionaire friend's villa, the cryptoporticus of the U.S. Mission in Rome, or at the St. Regis, it will be a total freebie. We know that much about Joe Biden. He pays for nothing. He even pimps his kid out to make him money. That $20 million advance for that book he doesn't even have to write will not be tapped for the mundanities of his life. Well, maybe Jill will hire Visiting Angels, but that's about it. Joe will enjoy the plunder, spankyewverymuch. And he very much would like to. Come to think of it, maybe he'll wander around nude looking for the pool again, as he does in Wilmington.
If past is prologue, the kids will be coming for the free Italian vacation. We can imagine Hunter looking for a nude beach right now. Who cares if it's winter?
The trip includes a private audience with the pope and very, very official meetings with French leaders, such as the president of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Meloni and Biden really hit it off the last time they met. You can well understand why she'd dying to meet with him again.
Joe Biden and Italy Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) July 12, 2024
What is her body language telling us?
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pic.twitter.com/FzSzwuKUWo
Awkward!
Joe's had a blast in Italy before. At the G7 conference, Biden suffered from a little jet lag as he slept through Andrea Boccelli's rendition of "Nessun Dorma," which even my limited Duolingo skills can confirm means, Hey you, don't sleep through this song!
Biden fell asleep while Andrea Bocelli sang Nessun Dorma (which means none shall sleep) at the G7.😂 pic.twitter.com/t4nvPe3B24
— MAZE (@mazemoore) June 17, 2024
That woman who looks like Sutton Stracke is the aforementioned prime minister. She picked the short straw and had to sit by Joe. Talk about taking one for the team. It was the G7; aren't there at least six other men hanging around who could take the duty?
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Anyway, the White House confirmed that the trip was a late add, which the staff knows is going to be a slog getting ready over Christmas, but also means—FREE ROAD TRIP! They're making their post-trip plans to extend this freebie in search of their Luigi lookalike. They've probably bought their lift tickets already.
White House spox Karine Jean Pierre said that the pope offered Joe an audience, and he couldn't possibly turn down the free trip. Shoot, in 2021, Joe got a 90-minute one-on-one meeting with the pope, where the pope absolved him of choosing the abortion queen as his running mate, going all-in on abortion himself, and putting grandmas in prison for being too close to abortion clinics while praying the rosary.
The pope's all good with that.
The pope wants to "discuss efforts to advance peace around the world" with the man who has singlehandedly been responsible for more bombs dropping than George Bush and George Patton combined.
Now, you might think I'm being too hard on old Joe. I'm not. If I believed the pope had the power to forgive sins, I'd say Joe should get inside the pope's private confessional and let it rip.
But Joe, his family, and his staff can't even come clean about the profligacy, pretense, and duplicitousness of this family and this Potemkin presidency.
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