A video clip circulating on social media claimed that a lack of mental acuity led Biden to try to sit down in a chair that didn't exist during a D-Day anniversary event
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Did President
Joe Biden try to sit down in a chair that wasn't there?
A video of Biden, 81, recently began circulating, which seemingly showed the president trying to sit down in a nonexistent chair at an event commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Several online posts from right-wing commentators and other social media users began claiming that the clip illustrated
Biden's mental incompetence due to his age.
"Biden is trying to sit in a chair that doesn’t exist. The problem is that he intends to continue running for the presidential elections," one X (formerly Twitter) user wrote alongside the video.
"This is disturbing," another wrote on X. "Pres. Biden is literally trying to find the invisible chair to sit in. It's just all so sad, and disgraceful to those in attendance who desire to honor the brave men who died to protect our nation from tyrannical governments."
However, the video shared to X did not show the full context of the moment, which was captured in its entirety
by the Associated Press.
The edited, 13-second clip was pulled from footage of Biden standing alongside first lady
Jill Biden, French President
Emmanuel Macron and his wife,
Brigitte Macron. The group was waiting for U.S. Defense Secretary
Lloyd Austin to be announced as the next speaker so they could be seated.
Contrary to what some viral social media posts claimed, the full-length video shows Biden crouching down, preparing to sit, before fully sitting down in a chair that does, in fact, exist.