President Biden on Thursday offered to meet a heckler who interrupted a speech in Arizona if the agitator would “shut up” and finish his remarks.
Biden, 80, gave a speech in Tempe in which he memorialized his late Senate colleague John McCain and called on voters to reject Donald Trump’s “extremist” Make America Great Again movement.
The president was interrupted by protesters about 10 minutes into his remarks.
“Why haven’t you declared a climate emergency yet?” a man repeatedly shouted from the audience. picture The event was shown.
“Arizonians are dead,” the unidentified man continued, but the crowd began booing him.
“Hold on a second. I’d be happy to meet you after we talk?” Biden said as the jeers intensified.
The president then paused for 13 seconds and bowed his head while the man continued his rant.
“I’m telling you, if you just shut up, I’ll see you right after this,” Biden said at the end to applause from the audience.
After the heckler was cleared, Biden resumed speaking, telling the audience, “As we just proved, democracy is never easy.”
Biden’s speech on Thursday, the day after the second Republican primary debate, was a reenactment of a prime-time address he gave before last year’s midterm elections, in which he said, “Trump and the MAGA Republican Party are an extremist group that threatens the very foundations of our country.” He is a representative of the principle.”
On Thursday, Biden announced he would use federal funds to build the McCain Library in partnership with the late Republican think tank founded in partnership with Arizona State University.
The president told the Weather Channel last month that he had “effectively” declared a climate emergency, but no such formal declaration has come from the White House.
With such emergency powers, Biden could halt new oil and gas drilling in federal waters, ban crude oil exports, free up federal funds and other disaster relief resources, and accelerate electric vehicle manufacturing. It becomes possible to do so. According to Politico.
