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DeSantis praised the government’s disaster relief response in Florida during the trip. “We are cutting through the red tape and that’s from local government, state government, all the way up to the president. We appreciate the team effort,” DeSantis said, according to theAssociated Press.
The AP also reported that Biden complimented DeSantis for working “hand in glove” with the federal government on the response to Hurricane Ian.
But amid the logistical talks, a couple of lighter-hearted memorable moments arose from the visit as well, one being a photograph captured when Biden was embracing a woman while he laughed with her and another man.
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Then, cameras and a hot microphonecaught Biden uttering an expletive in publicwhile speaking with Fort Myers Beach Mayor Ray Murphy.
“Thanks for everything, thanks for coming down, we appreciate it,” he tells Biden as they embrace in the video. Murphy appears to say something about “keep[ing] the faith” to Biden just before the president says: “No one f—- with a Biden.”
“Yeah, you’re goddamn right,” Murphy can be heard saying, laughing.
“And you can’t argue with your brothers outside the house,” Biden says in the video.
Murphy toldNBC Newsthat he could not recall what prompted Biden to drop the now-viral expletive.
“It was not directed at anybody. It was just two guys talking,” Murphy told NBC News hours after meeting the president. “It didn’t faze me one bit. That’s just the way two guys talk to each other from our respective backgrounds.”
“Unpopular take: I like having a president who swears in public occasionally…“Meghan McCainwrote on Twitterin reaction to the video of Biden speaking with Murphy.
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Murphy and Biden had never met before Wednesday’s visit, but the two men appeared to get along well and found they had mutual acquaintances from Biden’s Scranton, Pennsylvania, hometown and across Delaware, where the Bidens have a home, according to NBC News.
“We’re both Irish Catholics. We’re both devout Catholics. But every once in a while a little salty language comes out,” Murphy told NBC News about the now-viral F-bomb.
As is now nearly internet tradition with Biden’s activities in recent months, other reactions to the viral moment in Florida involved theever-evolving Dark Brandon meme, asMedia Matters' Matthew Gertz posted on Twitterin response to the video.
source: people.com
