Did Joe Biden really 'wander off' during the G7 summit in Italy? • FRANCE 24 English

A video in which US President Joe Biden appears to wander off at the G7 summit is going viral. The White House recently declared that Biden is a victim of "cheap fakes" on social media, which make it seem like he is senile and unfit for office. Also, did former president Donald Trump wave at a non-existent crowd during the NASCAR race? We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake.
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[@theweldor757]

If obiden was congratulating the paratrooper . Why wasn't he looking down at the paratrooper ? He was staring into space ! If that lady hadnt stopped him . He would of tripped over the paratrooper ! He didn't even know the paratrooper was ther ! Kinda looks like THIS video is another cheap fake ! L , , ,G B !

[@Umanflyumanfly]

Come on Man ...I was looking out of the screen shot at the other paratroopers ( Giving them a thumbs up ) .

[@chrisshort732]

Your take here is outlandish. The man waters away from the group, facing away from cameras and doing nothing anyone else is doing, and has to be pulled back into the group ... in every version of the video. You folks continue to be the ones perpetuating a fraud.

[@msaar1303]

Biden is walking few steps away from group, lifts his thumb to parachuter and Meloni pulled him back apparently because there was something else going on. All visible if you want to look. But nooooo, better believe whatever his political opponents want you to believe. You folks continue to be stupid.

[@deannagilmore8822]

Waters?

[@thomasnmza]

Take a look at 1:48 where they show a wide shot where he is literally looking at and likely talking to one of the skydivers

[@TheWinrarz]

@@thomasnmza Great job parroting what you heard in this video. The skydiver was on the ground packing up his parachute and literally not paying any attention to Biden, meanwhile Joe's gaze was at eye level and he had his thumbs up to someone who was not even looking at him? Doesn't really make him look any less senile, even if that explanation was supported by the video, which it isn't.

[@thomasnmza]

@@TheWinrarz And there’s no way that Biden could be looking at something even further off-screen, right? Tell me another story about whether you want to get electrocuted by a boat battery or eaten by a shark, though.

[@TaylorBerrus]

Even the French media is making excuses for this pathetic president..

[@pbidesign]

They are not making excuses, they are just showing how Fox is manipulating videos for their braindead followers.

[@fbayoutube]

I'm with the French. He's old. What do you and the US citizen expect?

[@Don-ii4vm]

No, French media are reporting the FACTS. If biden is so bad, then why does the right need to generate lies and misinformation about him?

[@mrjpierce]

France 24 sees the emperors' clothes, don't you?

[@Mollyweller350]

No need to try to make Biden look confused. It's challenging to make him appear to have a sharp mind.

[@pbidesign]

"Remember this: the currents, both sea and air, they fly right over our country. The current, the water comes down the Pacific, right out of China, so when they dump their garbage in the Pacific it comes right down along our coast, on the West Coast past Los Angeles. Much of it pours onto our land, but our waters are very dirty because they dump their garbage in the ocean and it's about a four or five day journey. The tides bring it by. Nobody ever talks about that. When they fire up their plants and all of that pollution comes over the seas and it comes right over our land. And then they want us to have clean. I said wait, 'We're gonna be clean but it's all flying.' Just remember that. Does that make sense? In other words, it's all coming through the currents, through the air, it all comes. They can name it, they can say exactly where it's going to be and when." I guess you can figure out who said this. I cannot remember to have heard anything remotely as ridiculous from Biden.

[@kingwillbisthebest]

He looks totally dazed and confused despite the media running defence for him.

[@manojchowdhary4208]

Wow France 24 is in full left protection mode…. 😂😂

[@jptaylor74]

So this is the thing that bothers me. If the original video shows him congratulating a paratrooper why not show us that instead of telling us that's what the video shows?

[@SleepingInsomniac19]

Because the original shows the same senile old man wandering off, just with a wider perspective

[@RickM-y6t]

Because the version seen by 25 million people watched the cropped video where the paratrooper is not shown, aka a cheap fake. You can see the uncropped version above at 1:30 to 2:00 minutes where Biden is giving a thumbs up to another paratrooper who is also honoring the same fallen soldiers as Biden.

[@erickane457]

They did show that, what do you mean

[@jptaylor74]

@@erickane457 I went and saw the wider lens shot which wasn't on this broadcast. And it did show a paratrooper gathering his parachute on the ground while President Biden was giving an awkward thumbs up and looking up. It certainly is better there was somebody he was walking towards, but merely telling us that without just showing the video gives us their narration rather than the visual context.

[@erickane457]

@@jptaylor74 I’m saying they did show the uncropped video in this broadcast at like 2 mins in, they literally built up to it. And it was a couple not just one, Biden was perfectly fine lol

[@SodarSmith]

This is gaslighting. We can see for ourselves Biden is unwell.

[@pbidesign]

Not as unwell as Trump.

[@Don-ii4vm]

How is reporting the FACTs gaslighting? Surely the gaslighting was the ones claiming he just wandered off? We can all see that he was talking to a parachutist.

[@johnphamlore8073]

This has aged very very poorly.

[@EstradaPablo]

trying to cover an old man ... too funny

[@ralphfaison5992]

What she failed to show is that Giorgia Meloni was on the right of everyone. Giorgia Meloni looks to her right nods as someone then she walks across everyone to get Biden. Who did she nod at and why?

[@BronxDiva212]

Stop it. He was looking over the paratroopers head

[@RogerBartop-Arcade]

This didn't age well for these liars

[@jptaylor74]

So I went and saw the video. and the video does show a paratrooper on the ground gathering his parachute. And Biden appear to look up which was strange. He also seemed very stiff and robotic posing for the subsequent photograph. So I agree he didn't appear to be wandering off, but you see signs of delayed reactions and slow motor coordination which are telltale signs of cognitive decline. He really should be retired rather than trying to perform one of the most demanding jobs in the world.

[@SSDDssed]

There's another paratrooper there that was looking at/facing Biden unlike the one gathering his parachute

[@Kevin-fq3zh]

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[@lisaschreiber2893]

LMAO the real video was released, it was fake 😂 but the fact that people believed it shows how dumb we’ve gotten

[@OlafScholz-dj2mn]

leave zombie joe alone he is on medication.

[@kevinwoolley7960]

Will we see a retraction now that these videos "suggesting that Biden is frail and has poor memory" have been shown by his debate performance to be the truth? Didn't think so.

[@JenniferKilpatrick-g2f]

That’s funny you know that there were people there with Trump absolutely 110%. And you certainly know that Biden was not supposed to turn around and talk to that paratrooper folding his parachute on the ground. I’d like to get closer to that video to see if his mouth is even moving. Looks like he’s just staring straight away.

[@jf8050]

He was congratulating the paratrooper that wasn't listening or looking at him.

[@hksrb25s16]

Now you know who corrupted with him.

[@Zivorad0284]

is it just me or does trump literally point at the few people there and then wave at them followed by some one off camera

[@chrisriden1465]

You literally showed the exact same videos with different context. 1st one he looked very confused, and you say it's to congratulate a paratrooper that is not even paying attention to biden? and the second compare that there's no chair there? The chair is clearly behind him. Did you cut out the volume where someone was speaking and weren't done whilst he wanted to sit down? I agree with you guys about donald trump waving at no one. crazy fact. biden does it too. I don't understand the point of this video.

[@Wuifgong]

Yes the right fakes videos to make him look old and yes he does look old on videos without manipulation. Just because their are some fakes, doesn't proof that he isn't senile.

[@itr8247]

Haha, you would put so much clarification if it were a right wing leader.

[@ggaggagga4]

Perception is everything, what?

[@xyang17]

Have to admit that American has most advanced AI technology, come on, it is just chip glitches.

[@ridhobaihaqi144]

Bot accounts dominated in here

[@paulinetaylor365]

Boy these reports are really reaching.

[@SharonO-cu1yp]

ItS Fake

[@laienke7046]

Trump and Biden, is this the best you can come up with for a president? You'd be better off with AI. 😂😂😂

[@prabhakarkmv4135]

Suffering from loss of memory!? Wish him good health!👍🌹 🇺🇸 (Is it a real or AI generated !?) 🤔 😮

[@Ellesar925]

Elder moments will come for us all in the end. Never understood how it became an acceptable for mockery.

[@CounterCultureWISE]

Because he is supposed to be the leader of the free world and they're covering up for his humiliating us as an entire nation.

[@Kauko13]

Thats why he should step down. You cant lead the most powerful nation in this state...

[@Ellesar925]

@@Kauko13 Presidents really only matter in times of war. Outside of war, the system is decentralised enough to run on auto pilot. Jensen Huang or Jamie Dimon are more important than whoever is in the White House.

[@evag106]

Maybe people should only be allowed to run for president between 45 and 65. Only after 65 if they are going for a second term.

[@Ellesar925]

@@evag106 Isn't that needlessly discriminatory? The US has primaries. Ergo voters decided on those two. They both beat younger competition. There is no indication that voters have decided on any of the third party candidates in protest at the advanced age of the two frontrunners. Way I see it: the Yanqs have made their bed, let'em lie in it.

[@Ozgipsy]

Georgia Meloni playing a great game..

[@kevinwoolley7960]

Ha ha this commentary did not age well at all.

[@cameronwebster5937]

This is my favorite segment