Fox & Friends Co-Hosts Cannot Help But Fill Report on Biden’s G7 Visit With Passive Aggressive Insults

Fox & Friends covered President Joe Biden’s arrival and family photo session at this year’s G7 Summit on Thursday and spent nearly the entire segment speculating and mocking Biden.

Speaking with White House correspondent Peter Doocy, who was not at G7 but in Washington, DC, the Fox & Friends co-hosts reported on Biden, who brought some of his adult grandchildren with him to Italy. Doocy kicked off his report remarking that Biden’s planned press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would likely be brief and followed by a “a very, very, very quick exit, because staffers want to keep these things overseas as scripted as possible.”

Then came the “Grandpa” comment from Doocy: “[Hunter Biden] himself not traveling outside the country as he awaits sentencing, but it appears all of his adult children made the trip to Italy with Grandpa.”

Given Fox’s constant commentary on Biden’s age, this may read, to some, like a tongue-in-cheek remark rather than an innocent reference to a family outing. (It should also be noted that former President Donald Trump is a grandpa and old. But that only comes up on Fox News when it’s convenient for their narrative.) But Biden was, in fact, in Italy with his grandchildren.

Then the commentary got downright petty:

Brian Kilmeade: Peter, do you know why the president didn’t go to the dinner last night?

Peter Doocy: No, and they told us not to read too much into it, but this is a person, especially in an election year, who bills himself as a statesman and as somebody who can get a lot of things done because he has such great skills dealing with other people at the leader level. I would note that it’s probably because they do like to have him down for as much as possible the first day that he goes anywhere overseas, and that has just proven, that is just born out with trip after trip after trip abroad, including last week in France. We got there a day early, we were ready to go and then at like ten in the morning local time, he just went right to bed.

Steve Doocy: Well, that’s just crazy. About an hour and a half ago, we saw him at the family photo and he looked… He was moving very carefully. He looked a little pooped.

Ainsley Earhardt: Wasn’t sure where to go.

Peter Doocy: But I think we have the video of that, yeah.

Steve Doocy: Okay, we’ll put it up. Peter, when this G7 concludes, he’s going to be flying back. There’s a Hollywood fundraiser, but there’s a kind of a curious stop in the Washington, DC area for just two hours, right? Do we have any idea what that is?

Peter Doocy: No, they gotta refuel somewhere. But when you look at this video, they… The president seems like he is, as staff probably instruct him, just, “We’re going to take a picture and then get out of there as quickly as possible.” But he’s not just looking for his own staff. They’ve got the staffers of the leaders of the seven largest economies. So he’s looking out there. He’s probably seeing people pointing in a bunch of different directions, and it looks like he did… There was a little roadblock there, the Italian Prime Minister, but he got out of there. And, within the next hour or so, we think we’re going to see them in a working meeting.

Steve Doocy: Do you think that he was just looking for the Easter Bunny for stage directions?

Earhardt continued her attempt to predict exactly what Biden was thinking when he went over to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for an unscripted exchange:

They all would walk up individually, sign the book, and then when it was our president’s time to meet her then go sign the book, he kind of turned around and wasn’t sure where to go. He went back up on the stage with her, and then they sent out all the other world leaders. So I’m wondering, Peter, maybe, you know, were they all planning to come out after our president arrived, or did they all just come out to save him from being humiliated?

Or maybe Biden just likes talking to people?

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