This week’s White House report card finds President Joe Biden’s slightly improving polls and bold trip into Ukraine clouded by his bungled response to the rail chemical disaster in East Palestine, Ohio.
His team’s reaction to the train crash has been so bad that Biden has been forced to repeatedly claim that his administration was on the case within two hours. Slow-walking Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has received most of the blame, but Biden’s refusal to travel there makes it appear that the blue-collar president who used to ride trains home to Delaware daily just doesn’t care.For the record, on Friday night, Biden flew home alone to Delaware for the weekend.
So my weekly wrap-up: Strong polling numbers, huge praise for his bold foreign policy, but tainted by a very poor no-show/late show in Ohio.This would have been a very good week for President Joe Biden if the only event was his trip to Ukraine.
Biden’s visit to Ukraine was a big success. Or was it? He walked around Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and promised another $500 million in aid. After that, Trump said we should reduce aid to Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin pulled out of the new START nuclear arms deal, and NATO allies France, Germany, and the United Kingdom said that there should be some security guarantees for Ukraine, but only after a peace deal is reached.
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