In November 2024, a video circulated on the Internet in which US President Joe Biden, after his speech in the Amazon jungle in Brazil, turned around and went into the forest. We checked whether this video is true.
On November 18, 2024, the media began to appear headers like “Biden went into the Amazon forests” or “Gone into the jungle - Joe Biden became the hero of memes after his speech in Brazil.” Similar articles were published by "Gazeta.ru", Lenta.ru, "Moskovsky Komsomolets", "Vesti.ru"and many other media. Hundreds of social media users also shared a video clip in which the US President finishes his speech, and then turns around and slowly wanders towards the jungle. The captions for the video clarified that “after the speech, Biden silently turned around and walked epically into the sunset into the jungle” or that “Biden is like an old cat who went into the forest and was never seen again.” According to the TGstat service, similar posts in Russian-language accounts on Telegram received more than 6 million views at the time of writing this analysis. The most popular publications were the channels "Ax+"(2.3 million views), "Live broadcast. News"(770,000), "KB" (240,000), "Truthfulness"(190,000), etc.
On November 17, 2024, American President Joe Biden arrived in Brazil, and then became the first sitting American president to visit the Amazon rainforest. US White House described this visit is part of the legacy the Biden administration will leave in the fight against climate change. The trip had symbolic significance, given that with the arrival of President-elect Donald Trump in the White House, the United States is likely to sharply will change its environmental policy. In Brazil Biden gave a speech And signed Proclamation on the International Day for Nature Conservation.
During a short visit In Manaus, squeezed between attending the APEC summits in Lima and the G20 in Rio de Janeiro, Biden gave an outdoor press conference in the Amazon forest. In a 14-second video that circulated online, Biden waved to reporters at the end of his speech, turned around, and walked toward the forest. If you limit yourself to watching this short video clip, you may indeed get the impression that the president did not behave entirely adequately.
However, on the same day Internet Archive posted an extended version of the broadcast, which was broadcast live on the American television channel C-SPAN. In the full broadcast, you will notice that before Biden's speech began (at the 0:47 mark), a man emerges from the very “jungle” towards which the US President headed. And a few minutes later in another video Biden can be seen emerging along the same path from the same “jungle” and approaching the microphone.
However, the media and social networks took the video clip out of context and distorted the news about Biden's speech in the Amazon jungle. One of the first to share the cropped video was a conservative account on the social network X with the nickname End Wokeness (6.3 million views). On November 17 at 20:52 Moscow time, a video of Biden appeared there with the caption: “Did the President of the United States just go into the Amazon forest?” The next day, news in a similar vein was presented in the Russian media. Many of them quoted article The Telegraph: “Wearing an open-necked blue shirt, dark trousers and his signature aviator sunglasses, the 81-year-old outgoing US president turned from the podium and headed into the woods.” On Telegram, the video mostly circulated with the caption “Biden made an epic escape into the Amazon rainforest after allowing Ukraine to fire missiles at Russia.”
Thus, the news about Joe Biden allegedly going into the jungle was taken out of context. If you watch the full video of the live broadcast, it becomes obvious that the American president was heading back to where he had previously left, that is, to a path hidden from the camera.
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