President Biden displayed his notoriously thin skin as he launched his COVID-19 plan on Thursday, reprimanding a White House reporter who asked if his new target of 1 million vaccine injections a day was too small.
“When I announced it, you all said it wasn’t possible – come on, give me a break, man! It’s a good start, “Biden said at the White House during his first full day in office.
The reporter asked Biden if his goal was ambitious enough, given the current demand.
“Is it big enough?” Shouldn’t you set the goal above? Basically, the US is there at the moment “, the reporter shouted after Biden finished signing 10 executive orders related to the multi-faceted plan.
Biden took office on Wednesday with an estimate 912,497 doses of vaccine being delivered daily under President Donald Trump, according to Bloomberg News.
Biden cleared the question and abruptly got up from his desk and walked out with Vice President Kamala Harris in the trailer.
Moments later, he signed executive orders on the coronavirus pandemic, including a new requirement for foreign visitors to be quarantined on arrival.
This is far from the first time Biden lost his temper with a questioner at a public event.
At a campaign event in Wilmington, Del., In June 2020, Biden, 78, criticized when a reporter asked about people, including Trump, who wondered if he had suffered from mental deficits – the questioner observing his own mental impairment at age 65 and wondering if Biden had been tested for cognitive decline.
“You’re a lying dog’s face,” Biden said, apparently irritated that the reporter continued to ask questions as he tried to leave the event, before adding that he was “constantly tested.”
This came after Biden infamously called a college student a “lying pony-faced soldier” at a campaign event in New Hampshire in February 2020.
Mercer University student Madison Moore, 21, said it was “humiliating to be called a liar on national television by the former vice president.”