However when Joe Biden ditched his shirt Sunday, he apparently simply needed to catch a couple of rays.
An image taken of the 80-year-old US president sunning himself shirtless on the seashore close to his Rehoboth, Delaware, residence went viral on social media Monday.
Posted by a journalist who occurred to be vacationing in Rehoboth, the image confirmed Biden in lengthy blue swimming trunks, blue tennis footwear, a backwards baseball cap, sun shades — and nothing else.
“President Biden is having fun with a beautiful seashore day right here in Rehoboth,” the journalist, Eric Geller, wrote on X, the positioning previously referred to as Twitter.
In contrast to the Kremlin chief’s notorious 2009 horse driving pictures, not to mention Trump’s frequent Photoshop fantasies, there was no indication that Biden was truly making an attempt to indicate off his chest.
White Home reporters who accompany the president on his travels had earlier been briefly dropped at witness and {photograph} him sitting down below an umbrella with First Woman Jill Biden. At the moment, nevertheless, he was nonetheless sporting a blue polo shirt.
Geller instructed Politico he was strolling alongside the shoreline when he pulled out his cellphone and snapped three photos of the president, who was protected by a discreet, however sturdy safety element.
For a person already the oldest president in historical past and hoping to win a second four-year time period in 2024, the scrutiny over Biden’s bodily well being is intense. People have now been given a more in-depth look than they may have anticipated.
