Bizarre exchange comes day after Biden was seen aimlessly wandering and blanking out at G7 Summit in Italy.
Joe Biden became severely triggered while being questioned by a reporter during an “influencer” event at the White House on Friday.
Popular independent journalist Jonathan M. Katz confronted Biden with his phone in hand to ask about civilian deaths in Gaza and Biden quickly became irate.
Joe Biden gets mad at TikTok star during White House influencer party, threatens to throw his phone before aides intervene pic.twitter.com/n8xrWvqztX
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This is a transcript of the exchange:
BIDEN: And I know you’re a typical press guy, you’re grabbing me in front of this, all this…(unintelligible)…and I trust you as far as I throw your phone. I have a good arm, man, I can throw a long way, but my point is this…
[Five seconds of awkward silence]
I have made very clear to the Israelis what they have to do in the near term, if they don’t, what’s going to happen.
KATZ: What’s going to happen?
BIDEN: A lot.
KATZ: Are you guys going to cut off funding?
At that point, aides intervened to guide Katz away from Biden.
What in the world?
Biden turned the “I don’t trust you as far as I can throw you” saying into him threatening to throw the reporter’s phone because he can “throw a long way.”
This bizarre exchange comes a day after Biden made headlines for blanking out and wandering aimlessly around the G7 Summit in Apulia, Italy on Thursday, prompting world leaders to step in and corral him for photoshoots and handshakes.
Cover of New York Post this morning pic.twitter.com/niqfUALnE3
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Keep in mind, a 90-minute debate between Biden and former President Donald Trump has been scheduled to take place on June 27 in Atlanta, Georgia.
