Defenders of President Biden scolded critics of his decision not to take questions following Tuesday’s remarks on sanctions imposed by the White House against Russia, evoking the mantra that “politics stops at the water’s edge,” but the decorum was largely ignored during the previous administration.
“So weird that the ‘Trump is Putin’s puppet’ folks have rediscovered the importance of ‘politics stops at the water’s edge’ in the Biden era lol,” Cavalry founding partner and podcaster Michael Duncan observed.
The Twitter account for House Republicans captioned a photo of Biden turning his back on reporters and walking away without taking questions by writing, “This is what weakness on the world stage looks like.” The tweet was hit with immediate backlash, including one observer who asked, “Whatever happened to, ‘Politics stops at the water’s edge?’”
