First lady Jill Biden spoke about the feeling of the holiday season at the White House and used Vice President Kamala Harris‘s often-used word “joy” but quickly backtracked her comments with a snarky quip.
“I’m so glad that you got to come here today because the White House is decorated,” the first lady said on Wednesday to the crowd at the White House Conference on Women’s Health Research event.
“The theme this year is peace and light. So I hope that you all feel that sense of peace and light. Just for a moment when you leave here today, when you feel — I don’t know,” Biden said as she paused, searching for the right word to use.
“A sense of joy,” she continued. “Because I think we all need to feel joy now during this time of the season. … Just during this time.”
As the crowd began laughing, Biden noticeably made the realization that she was referencing a favorite campaign word of the failed Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.
“OK, you’re all reading into that,” the first lady quipped as the audience continued to rumble with laughter. She joined them in laughing out loud.
The first lady quickly moved on to talk about women’s health, the subject of the event.
Jill Biden arrives for the Kennedy Center Honors and doesn’t even look at Kamala seated right next to her and Joe.
She really despises her. 👀 pic.twitter.com/lRccNCI2Vs
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) December 9, 2024
Earlier this week, President Joe Biden and the first lady gave Harris the cold shoulder while at the Kennedy Center Honors.
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When the first couple arrived at the event, they refused to acknowledge Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, who were sitting next to them. If the Bidens looked in their direction, they looked past Harris and Emhoff and did not make eye contact. The incident noted presumed bad blood between them after the vice president disastrously lost the Democratic bid for president following Biden’s dropping out of the race and endorsing her.
The first lady had appeared at the reopening of Notre Dame in France over the weekend and was seen having a friendly exchange with President-elect Donald Trump. Several social media users speculated that Biden had voted for Trump after her husband had been ousted from the Democratic presidential ticket.
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