Is it true that Biden asked not to jump an invisible person during his speech?

In April 2023, the Internet flooded posts about the strange behavior of the American president: he allegedly turned to a non-existent audience and asked someone not to jump. Russian media and network users believe that this is another evidence of a mental disorder caused by Biden's age. We checked the authenticity of the viral video.

On April 12, 2023, a video recording of Joe Biden's performance at the University of Olster in Northern Ireland diverged on the Web. It is reported that during the utterance of his speech the politician behaved strangely: he turned his back to the audience, looking up somewhere, said: "Do not jump!" - And he added that he apologizes for the appearance of his back. According to numerous posts on social networks, users regarded such an act as a manifestation of an illness of an 80-year politician.

In popular Russian pro-government Telegram channels, the viral video was accompanied by comments that make fun of Bayden. For example, "Dmitry Vasilet"(213,000 views at the time of writing this text):" He clearly hears otherworldly voices, sees ghosts and smells entities ", Voblya (153,000): “Shiza finally absorbed my grandfather,” “Ostashko! Important"(103,000):" Biden sees imaginary friends again. " Similar publications appeared in the channels "Observer"(196,000 views),"Uncle Glory"(150 000),"Petya the first"(70 000) and Putin TG Team (68,000), as well as in publics on VKontakte (examples here, here And here), V Twitter And on YouTube.

A similar picture was observed in the media. In the "Russian newspaper", the official print body of the Government of the Russian Federation, Wrote The communication of the US president with invisibles and joked about ghosts. On the site "Fifth Channel" Reportedthat in the midst of the conference, Biden "begged" not to jump his imaginary friend. In the news "Rambler" toldWhat such behavior caused a laugh at the audience, and added: “To whom this warning was addressed and what the US president wanted to say specifically, it is not yet clear.” Similar headlines appeared on other resources, among which social networks TV channel "Tsargrad"And IA REGNUMas well as the site of the newspaper "Capital with" RIA Fan, "Podolyaka" Kostanews.ru And Blitz.plus. Further, the editorial office of the Moscow Region today went on, which to explain Biden's behavior Turned For comment on esotericism. "Expert" said that the president may be surrounded by "demonic entities" who came "not from our real physical plan" and the leadership of the politician.

April 12 Biden really pronounced Speech at the University of Olster. Visit by an American leader who has There is Irish roots, it was Supered On the 25th anniversary of the adoption of an agreement on a passionate Friday April 10, 1998 in Belfast, putting The end of the conflict in Northern Ireland. The viral video with a passage of the president’s speech is also genuine - it begins at the time 10:57 On a broadcast posted on the official YouTube channel of the White House. Biden's full decoding placed On the website of the Presidential Administration. Below are a translation of the passage of interest to us in the form in which it is presented on the White House website.

And I want you to know everything, especially young people present here here ...

(Turning to students.) And do not jump, okay? (Laughter.) Oh, I have not seen you all there from above. (Laughter.) As my father would say: “Please excuse me that I am with my back. I apologize. " (Laughter.)

But all the jokes to the side, the American people were with you - and now with you throughout the way. This is true.

According to this fragment of the transcript, the US president appealed to certain students who are somewhere from above. But were they invisible?

If you look at the broadcast on the White House YouTube channel from Beginning, on top behind the rostrum, behind which Biden spoke, you can notice two balconies with people standing on them. The same two sites with spectators visible On the recording of the event published on the channel of the University of Olster. Thanks to video, laid out on Twitter of the US president, it becomes clear that there were not two, but three balconies. The situation is most clearly demonstrated in the video of the GB News TV channel, since in moment Biden’s appeals to the audience on top of the operator stopped taking off the president close -up and showed a general plan for the room, taking all three balconies into the lens.

In addition to video recordings, numerous photos from the event can serve as evidence. For example, on photo From the Twitter of the US president behind Biden you can see the first and second balconies, and on picture Getty images photo agencies are visible at once all three sites with people.

Biden’s request “not to jump” is not for the first time issued for the manifestation of his alleged dementia. For example, Telegram channel of TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov Share (recording has already been deleted) by the post of another propaganda channel called "Kremlin laundry”(275,000 views), where it emphasized:“ Bayden is not the first time in public with his invisible “comrades”. All this looks very much at senile schizophrenia. Such a frequent and uncontrolled manifestation of symptoms suggests that the disease is progressing. ” In December 2022 "Retrieved" Disassembled Similar unreliable messages regarding Biden's speech on the lawn at the White House.

In fact, the American president has repeatedly asked not to jump to completely existing and visible people, who were usually several meters above him and therefore often simply did not fall into the frame. Various Western publications called The phrase "don't jump" Gag, that is, more than once a repeated joke, which Baiden quite often amuses the listeners.

Photo on the cover: Screenshot “Checked” / video The White House

Not true

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