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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — President Joe Biden fell on stage at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation Thursday & the White House said he was “fine” after tripping over a sandbag.
Biden had been greeting the graduates in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the front of the stage with salutes & handshakes & turned to jog back toward his seat when he fell. He was helped up by an Air Force officer as well as 2 members of his U.S. Secret Service detail.
“He’s fine,” tweeted White House communications director Ben LaBolt. “There was a sandbag on stage while he was shaking hands.” 2 small black sandbags were on stage supporting the teleprompter used by Biden & other speakers.
Biden has been dogged by questions about his age & his fitness to serve & his missteps have become fodder for political rivals as he campaigns for a second term in 2024. He has stumbled before going up the stairs & onto Air Force One & he once got caught up in his bike pedals while stopping to talk to reporters near his home in Delaware.
Biden’s personal doctor said after the president’s most recent physical exam in February that Biden “remains a healthy, vigorous 80-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.”
Biden is far from the first national political figure to stumble in public.
President Gerald Ford fell down while walking off Air Force One in 1975. GOP Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, the GOP presidential nominee at the time, fell off the stage at a campaign rally in 1996. President Barack Obama tripped walking up the stairs to a stage at a 2012 event.
President Donald Trump’s gingerly walk down a ramp at the 2020 West Point commencement also sparked concerns about his health.
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