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Chevy Chase and ‘SNL’ is all anyone can talk about after Joe Biden trips at Air Force Academy graduation

President Biden recently tripped and fell, and people want Chevy Chase's help in mocking him.

Welp, President Joe Biden has tripped again — this time at an Air Force Academy graduation. And instead of the world just shrugging and saying, “Yeah, I mean, he’s an old man,” conservatives are taking their victories where they can get them and talking about everything from the 25th Amendment to Saturday Night Live.

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Here’s the fall in question:

And here’s the internet reacting the only way it knows how:

Oh look, a callback to the OT (Original Tripper):

A few people felt all the Chevy Chase talk was unfair, since President Ford was quite a bit younger than Biden when his fall was lampooned on late-night TV:

It’s nice that something as minor as a fall can remind us just how divided the country is in these dark times of shortened steps and waxed floors. However, from our outlook, Democrats don’t need to be up in arms about this.

Yes, Biden is very old. Yes, he trips — somewhat frequently. But he hasn’t yet failed to take seriously a pandemic killing thousands of people per day. He hasn’t yet told white supremacists to “stand by.” He hasn’t yet tried to corral a bunch of really sad people toeing the poverty line into a government insurrection. Plus, he recently helped Congress reach a deal on the debt limit, which required a wellspring of political acumen and a hell of a lot of stamina.

Basically, Biden can do a better job as president from literally the floor compared with the GOP’s last choice. Whether people laugh or not isn’t going to change that. If people want to make fun of Biden for failing to stay on his feet, the left should be secure enough in his governing abilities to manage. Just remember this very solid point by one Twitter user regarding the difficulty of cracking jokes about, well, anything on SNL these days:

Someone get Biden in those WGA negotiations — with shoes that grip, please.


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