'I carry this card with me,' Biden said, referencing the card. He used several cheat sheets during his first presidential press conference, including one with the headshots and names of reporters he planned to call on.īiden also utilized notes during a 2021 summit with Putin, while touring the damage of Hurricane Ida in Louisiana and while calling on reporters at the G20 summit in Rome.īiden's talk with wind-industry executives today resulted in him launching a formal partnership with 11 East Coast governors to boost the growing offshore wind industry, a key element of his plan for climate change.īiden, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and other top administration officials met with governors, wind industry officials and labor leaders Thursday at the White House. He also used them to give precise details at a Town Hall before the election, as he fielded a question about taxes. He would often take from his pocket the daily totals of Covid cases, which he referenced regularly. NATO has never been more united.' He regularly uses cue cards, and was photographed frequently with them during the campaign trail before taking office. The notes read: 'If you weren't advocating for regime change, what did you mean? Can you clarify?' Another read: 'Is this now threatening to splinter unity with your NATO allies?'īiden already had an answer prepared on the printed card: 'No. The note was only visible because Biden used the same notecard to scribble notes during the meeting.Įarlier this year, Biden was mocked for using a printed 'cheat sheet' of answers to expected questions when he faced the media to discuss the Ukraine war. He was then handed a note, prompting him to wipe his chin and look at his hand.īiden again held the note so that it was available for all reporters and photographers to read. He had a yellow dot below his mouth, but he carried on talking. Last July, an aide handed him note stating: 'Sir, there is something on your chin.' It alerted the president there had been something on his face for roughly the first 10 minutes of his virtual meeting.
The meeting went down without further incident but afterwards eagle-eyed photographers quickly realized what the President had revealed.īiden points to a wind turbine size comparison chart during a meeting about the Federal-State Offshore Wind Implementation Partnership in the Roosevelt Room of the White Houseīiden has continued to use such notes throughout his presidency and they are sometimes handed to him during very public moments.
'YOU ask Liz Shuler, President, AFL-CIO, a question' and then 'YOU thank participants' and 'YOU depart.' The note then told the president to speak once the reporters had been brought into the room: 'YOU give brief comments (2 minutes).'Īfter the reporters departed, Biden was told to speak to some of those present at the meeting. The strip of paper told him to sit down: 'YOU take YOUR seat', it instructed. The detailed instructions were titled 'Offshore Wind Drop-By Sequence of Events' and told Biden to 'enter the Roosevelt Room and say hello to participants.' Rather than refer to 'The President' by name, whoever typed up the note had clearly intended it to be for presidential eyes only and instead referred to Biden as 'YOU', in bold, upper case lettering. During the meeting with wind-industry executives in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Biden flashed the eight-point plan for how to conduct himself to photographers.
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