Who knew Joe Biden was so fortunate?
Forget inflation, gas prices, the prospect of World War Three, his regular memory lapses and his son’s indiscretions: it seems the 46th president is in fact the luckiest man in America — as evidenced by the appearance of a bird pooping on him while he delivered a speech on Tuesday.
President Biden was at the podium in deep-red Iowa, where his aim was to “visit an ethanol plant, pledge to use executive tools to throttle inflation and explain to his audience how Washington is helping rural communities,” according to the Hill. But if anyone really hit their mark that day, it was the winged assassin above the president, despoiling his sports jacket from a range of several feet…
Did…did a bird just poop on Joe Biden? pic.twitter.com/DA4qWSI2xH
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 12, 2022
…not really. Cockburn wishes he could tell you that was what had happened. NBC producer and party-pooper Gary Grumbach offered a fact-check to the rampant speculation that a feathered fiend had targeted Biden.
“I was in the room,” Grumbach tweeted. “This is an active factory, and pipes full of corn powder filled the ceiling of this event space. Corn powder particles were dripping on all of us periodically throughout the event.”
Way to burst Cockburn’s bubble, Gary…
