On Monday afternoon, while taping an episode of Seth Myer's late night talk show in New York City, Joe Biden went for ice cream with Myers and answered a few questions about the ongoing cease fire talks for the Israel/Hamas war. Seems pretty pedestrian, right?
Not for this weirdo on the internet, Clay Travis. Until I looked him up, I thought he was one of the asshole MAGA House members. But he's some kind of right wing talk show host who says he voted for Obama. OK. He also said he's a moderate and pro-choice, and that he opposes the death penalty. He is also Covid denier and in 2020 he declared his allegiance to TFG. So he's really just a wingnut.
He seems to really hate Biden and Monday's ice cream stop was too much for him to bear:
I like how Seth Myers is standing next to Biden and Travis is all wound up because Biden is getting ice cream by himself.
Now you would think that this would be over the next day, right? Nope. Travis is still obsessed with men eating ice cream "alone":
He even made it the center of his radio show on Tuesday:
WTF is going on with him?
Here's the thing about Biden going out for ice cream with people: first, lots of people really like ice cream. I do. My family was so ice cream crazy that we used to give it up as a family for Lent. It's relatable if you haven't twisted yourself into an overly salty MAGA pretzel.
Second, the ice cream is a presidential proxy. During the W administration we were saddled with the inexorable stupidity of the "would you enjoy having a beer with Candidate X" meme. And, since you asked, my answer is "No, I would not enjoy having a beer with some wingnut candidate because I don't associate with wingers in real life because they are neither interesting nor entertaining. Thanks for asking."
Presidential proxies are a normal part of presidential messaging. The proxy you are most accustomed to seeing is a presidential pet in White House where there are no minor children living there to convey that the president is caring, nurturing person.
Biden's challenge is that he is a teetotaler, so he's not going to be going around having beers with people. So ice cream with people is his presidential proxy. But MAGA has completely gone over the edge so now eating ice cream with people is public is A Bad Thing.
OMG I wish I had some ice cream right now. Louis Prima can sing us out:
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