President Joe Biden unintentionally revealed a “cheat sheet” that details his personal behaviour in detail.
The G20 Summit took place in Bali earlier this week, where leaders from some of the biggest economies in the world gathered for two days under the slogan “Recover Together, Recover Stronger.” Their host country’s president, Joko Widodo, welcomed them.
The US commander-in-chief held talks throughout the summit with fellow leaders from economic powerhouses, but the meetings were briefly interrupted after a wave of Russian strikes on Ukraine led to an explosion in Nato member state Poland which caused two deaths.
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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Biden, and other Nato-alliance leaders—including French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida, and Canada’s Justin Trudeau—were promptly convened for an emergency summit.
There is currently a tale from the meeting that is gaining attention, even though it has much less nuclear fallout potential than the stunning upset that occurred during the otherwise quiet summit. This story is turning out to be the zaniest news from the two-day gathering.
Recent headlines have started to focus on a closeup from one of Biden’s wire photos, in which he appears to be clutching an event’s comprehensive itinerary.
The booklet offers comprehensive instructions for giving his opening remarks at the G20 meeting and has a notation at the top and bottom of each page instructing the reader to flip to the following page for more information.
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“YOU will close the event alongside YOUR co-hosts,” one line says, while another tells the president where to sit – “YOU will sit at the centre” – and another tells him when he’ll speak – “YOU will deliver opening remarks.”
The image of Biden flipping through the meticulously detailed notes comes amid growing concerns about the Democratic leader’s age, especially as he approaches his 80th birthday at the end of the month.
It’s not the first time Biden’s mental faculties have come under scrutiny; only last summer, a similar cheat sheet that provided similarly explicit and basic instructions for when and where to sit was inadvertently leaked to the press.
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Then again, in the spring, Biden was seen carrying a cheat sheet with talking points related to his remarks on Russian President Vladimir Putin. The sheet was titled “Tough Putin Q&A talking points” and contained notes printed on a small piece of paper.
If Biden decides to run for a second term in office, which he says he will do if he remains in “good health,” he will become the oldest president in US history, finishing his second term at the age of 86.