Apparently, Sleepy Joe and his wife Jill were late, messing up the perfectly planned order of entrance to Westminster Abbey. The Guardian reported that the first couple had to be gently told to stand and wait as a procession of veterans went ahead of them.
The word is that there was a period of small talk at the entrance before it was decided that those given the highest decorations of military valor would go ahead of the president. Cockburn thinks that if there’s one day to make sure the alarm is set, then it was probably today.
There may be another reason for Biden’s gaffe, as the president had been given a special exemption to ride to the abbey in the “the Beast”, a heavily armored limousine. Other heads of state and government officials were taken in a bus, as requested by the UK government. They were also urged to travel by commercial flights.
Cockburn admits he enjoyed the images shared on social media showing that the Bidens in central London traffic, even being forced to stop outside a Pret-a-Manger on Oxford Street.
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