Biden Skips Big NATO Dinner – White House Claims It’s Because He Has Too Many Days of Work in a Row
President Joe Biden was a no-show at the opening dinner of the NATO summit Tuesday night in Vilnius, Lithuania, with an official claiming the 80-year-old president had too much work coming up to attend. Biden “has four…
President Joe Biden was a no-show at the opening dinner of the NATO summit Tuesday night in Vilnius, Lithuania, with an official claiming the 80-year-old president had too much work coming up to attend.
Biden “has four full days of official business and is preparing for a big speech tomorrow in addition to another day at the summit,” a U.S. official said, according to the New York Post.
In a Twitter post, Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs offered another explanation given by National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
“He wasn’t the only leader who wasn’t there. But last night he thought he didn’t have to attend and then he would have every opportunity to sit with all of his colleagues at length on all of the significant issues of our time,” she quoted Sullivan as saying.
On Wednesday, Biden is due to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as part of the summit’s events, give a speech at Vilnius University and then travel to Helsinki, Finland.