Social media mocked Ashley Biden for being a chip off her father Joe’s old block during a speech at the White House Pride Month celebration Wednesday.
Biden, 43, is the president’s only daughter from his marriage to First Lady Jill. She attended the ceremony on the South Lawn with her mother.
As she spoke about the need to protect LGBTQ youth, dressed in a glamorous rainbow-colored dress, she stumbled over her words at one point.
She was captured in a music video that used the ‘T’ and ‘G’ in LGBTQ interchangeably, leading some to say she looked like a sweet old dad.
“Ashley Biden…Like father, like daughter,” one commenter wrote. “Maybe this isn’t the age for Joe. Whatever it is, it could run in the family.”
Ashley Biden was trolled on social media on Wednesday during a speech at the White House Pride Month celebration for being a descendant of her father Joe.
The speech itself was a heartfelt appeal to children to feel “loved, accepted and supported.”
She criticized how “too many LGBTQ children grow up in families that do not accept them” or how they are bullied.
After she was able to finish her sentence, she received cheers from the South Lawn crowd for her comments.
Ashley’s father, who overcame a debilitating stutter in his youth, is still known for his blunders, to the point where some doubt the 81-year-old president’s ability to win a second term.
A shocking Justice Department report found that Biden, who illegally withheld classified federal documents, should not be prosecuted by the agency because a jury would likely view the president as “a likable, well-meaning, older man with a poor memory ‘ and would not side with the DOJ.
The DOJ’s assessment of Biden later prompted some lawmakers to call for invoking the 25th Amendment to fire the president for his incompetence.
The Justice Department’s review of Biden later led some lawmakers to call for invoking the 25th Amendment to impeach the president for incompetent conduct.
The president, who did not appear at the ceremony, marked Pride Month Wednesday by pardoning veterans convicted of violating anti-gay sex laws while serving.
Biden, 43, is the president’s only daughter from his marriage to First Lady Jill. She attended the ceremony on the South Lawn with her mother
She was captured in a music video that mixed up the ‘T’ and ‘G’ in LGBTQ, prompting some to say she looked like a sweet old dad
Biden’s action pardons military personnel convicted under the former Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which criminalized sodomy.
The law, which has been on the books since 1951, was rewritten in 2013 to only ban acts of violence.
Those covered by the pardon can apply to receive proof that their conviction has been expunged and apply to have their discharge from the military upgraded.
The president is exercising his clemency powers during Pride Month, and his action comes just days before he is set to hold a high-profile fundraiser with LGBTQ donors in New York on Friday.
Biden is trying to gain support within the Democratic-oriented community in the run-up to the presidential elections.
Biden is estimated to have the support of about 68 percent of registered LGBTQ voters, according to GLADD. On the other hand, his Republican rival Donald Trump has only 15 percent.
One of Biden’s first acts in office was to reverse a Trump-era clampdown on transgender people serving in the military.
By comparison, one of Trump’s first acts was to roll back health care protections for the transgender community, which were previously covered by Obamacare.
First lady Jill Biden embraces Ashley Biden, daughter of US President Joe Biden, during a Pride celebration on the South Lawn
The Bidens preached making LGBTQ youth feel loved, supported and accepted at home and at school
In 2019, Trump became the first Republican president to recognize Pride Month as part of his approval ratings shrunk.
Administration officials declined to say why Biden did not follow through on the pardon sooner.
This is Biden’s third categorical pardon — using his clemency authority to cover a broad group of people convicted of certain crimes — following moves in 2022 and 2023 to pardon those federally convicted of marijuana possession .
The White House estimates that thousands of military personnel are included. Most were convicted before the military introduced the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in 1993. That made it easier for LGBTQ service members to serve if they did not reveal their sexual orientation.
That policy was repealed in 2011, when Congress allowed their open service in the military.
Military personnel convicted of non-consensual acts are not covered by Biden’s pardons.
And those convicted under other articles of the military code, which may have been used as a pretext to punish or expel LGBTQ troops, would have to seek clemency through the Justice Department’s normal clemency process.
Biden previously directed the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide benefits to service members who were not honorably discharged because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or HIV status.