Now that power is about to be peacefully transferred, Americans can all expect to hear from a president who actually speaks for himself. A novel concept, for sure.
The public rarely heard from President Joe Biden unaided by a teleprompter. Press conferences became foreign concepts. Here’s a juxtaposition: In Donald Trump’s final year in office, he held 35 solo press conferences. In Biden’s final year, he held exactly zero solo pressers. His handlers wouldn’t even let him do one on the way out the door.
So, with the absentee president being shielded from the public, or off on another long weekend in Delaware, the face of the administration became Karine Jean-Pierre in the final two-and-a-half years after taking over for the pious Jen Psaki, who ran off to the very friendly confines of MSNBC.
Let’s be fair: Defending Biden, who exits the Oval Office with a 36% …