Social media roasted Ashley Biden for being a chip off the old block of her father Joe during a speech at the White House Pride Month celebration Wednesday.
Biden, 43, is the only daughter of the president from his marriage to First Lady Jill. She attended the ceremony on the South Lawn with her mother.
As she spoke while wearing a glamorous rainbow-colored dress about the need to protect LGBTQ youth, she stumbled over her words at one point.
She was captured in a video clip mixing up the 'T' and 'G' in LGBTQ, which prompted at least one person to say she resembled dear old dad.
'Ashley Biden...Like father like daughter,' wrote one commenter. 'Maybe it's not the age for Joe. Whatever it is it may run in the family.'
Social media trolled Ashley Biden for being a chip off the old block of her father Joe during a speech at the White House Pride Month celebration Wednesday
The speech itself was an earnest call for children to feel 'loved, accepted and supported.'
She decried how 'too many LGBTQ children grow up at homes that don't 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 remarks.
Ashley's father, who was able to conquer a debilitating stutter growing up, is still known for gaffes, to the point where some doubt the 81-year-old president's capability of leading into a second term.
A bombshell report from the Department of Justice found that Biden, who illegally withheld classified federal documents, should not be prosecuted by the agency because a jury would likely find the president as 'a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly 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 the invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove the president for being incompetent.
The president, who did not appear at the ceremony, celebrated Pride Month Wednesday by pardoning veterans who were convicted of violating anti-gay sex laws while serving.
Biden's action grants a pardon to service members who were convicted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice's former Article 125, which criminalized sodomy.
Biden, 43, is the only daughter of the president from his marriage to First Lady Jill. She attended the ceremony on the South Lawn with her mother
She was captured in a video clip mixing up the 'T' and 'G' in LGBTQ, which prompted some to say she resembled dear old dad
The law, which has been on the books since 1951, was rewritten in 2013 to prohibit only forcible acts.
Those covered by the pardon will be able to apply to receive proof that their conviction has been erased and petition to have their discharges from the military upgraded.
The president´s use of his pardon powers is occurring 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 rally support within the Democratic-leaning community ahead of the presidential election.
Biden is estimated to have support of around 68 percent of registered LGBTQ voters, according to GLADD. On the other hand, his Republican rival Donald Trump has just 15 percent.
Among Biden's first acts in office was to roll back a Trump-era band on transgender people serving in the military.
By comparison, one of Trump's first acts was to roll back healthcare protections for the transgender community that had previously been covered by Obamacare.
In 2019, Trump became the first Republican president to recognize Pride month as his approval numbers dwindled.
First lady Jill Biden hugs Ashley Biden, daughter of U.S. 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 school
Administration officials declined to say why Biden did not act on the pardons sooner.
This is the third categorial pardon by Biden - using his clemency powers to cover a broad group of people convicted of particular crimes - after moves in 2022 and 2023 to pardon those convicted federally for possessing marijuana.
The White House estimates that several thousand service members will be covered - the majority convicted before the military instituted the 'Don´t Ask, Don´t Tell' policy in 1993 that eased the way for LGBTQ troops to serve if they didn´t disclose their sexual orientation.
That policy was repealed in 2011, when Congress allowed for their open service in the military.
Service members convicted of nonconsensual acts are not covered by Biden's pardon action.
And those convicted under other articles of the military justice code, which may have been used as pretext to punish or force-out LGBTQ troops, would need to request clemency through the normal Department of Justice pardon process.
Biden had previously ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to move to provide benefits to service members who were other than honorably discharged because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or HIV status.
