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Bizarre appearance by US President Biden at the world climate summit: video recording causes a sensation

2021-11-02T10:21:49.006Z


Hard weeks for Joe Biden: Zoff in the US Congress and climate negotiations in Rome and Glasgow. Obviously, this is a problem for the president.


Hard weeks for Joe Biden: Zoff in the US Congress and climate negotiations in Rome and Glasgow.

Obviously, this is a problem for the president.

Washington, DC - When it became known that Democrat Joe Biden had won the US election, left-wing America gave a deep sigh of relief.

It was the end of the highly controversial Trump era and an alleged new beginning after years of "America First".

However, after a strong start to his presidency, Biden and the Democratic Party are getting more and more into a row.

Because after initial success, their agenda is only progressing slowly, or sometimes not at all.

The reason for this is the Republicans' blockade stance in the US Congress - but also internal party resistance.

In the face of Biden's wafer-thin Senate majority, the conservative Democrat Joe Manchin can single-handedly slow down the US president's urge to reform.

These are busy times for Joe Biden.

So exhausting that the president apparently nodded off briefly at the world climate summit in Glasgow.

Grist to the mill of his opponents.

Former US President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters prefer to refer to Biden as "Sleepy Joe" - partly because of his linguistic dropouts.

Biden: Exhausted US President?

Bizarre appearance at the world climate summit

A video circulating on Twitter shows how the 78-year-old Democrat apparently fights against his fatigue during the opening speech of the UN climate conference COP26.

The US President's eyes keep falling.

It's the image of an exhausted president.

Shortly before, Biden had attended the G20 summit in Rome and from there traveled directly to Scotland.

The tight schedule is probably taking its toll.

Biden appears to fall asleep during COP26 opening speeches pic.twitter.com/az8NZTWanI

- Zach Purser Brown (@zachjourno) November 1, 2021

Only when a man speaks to the president, who is sitting with his arms crossed, does he seem to regain consciousness.

Towards the end of the speech, he claps together with the others present - and rubs his eyes.

Criticism for his appearance is not long in coming on the short message service.

"Not the best impression when trying to tell the world to wake up," tweeted a British journalist.

Joe Biden apologizes for US exit from the Paris Agreement under Donald Trump

In his subsequent speech at the World Climate Conference, Biden apologized for his country's temporary withdrawal from the Paris Agreement under his predecessor Donald Trump.

One of his first official acts was to rejoin the agreement, he emphasized.

Trump had led the USA out of the Paris climate protection agreement and refused to international efforts to do more climate protection.

In the end, he sums up his urgent appeal, for which the US President takes three to four times as much time as the three minutes actually planned, in one great hope: "May God save the planet." But now we are at the world climate summit for the first time the people on the train.

(aka with material from AFP and dpa)

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