Biden Stumbles on Steps of Air Force One Before Atlanta Trip

President Joe Biden was departing for Atlanta on Friday when he had a rough go climbing the stairs to Air Force One.

Biden fell three times in the span of three seconds on the steps to Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews. The White House has blamed the incident on wind gusts.

"It's pretty windy outside, it's very windy. I almost fell coming up the steps myself. He is doing 100% fine," said White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as reported by ABC News Go.

White House communications director Kate Bedingfield also tweeted that the incident was simply a misstep on the stairs. She said the 78-year-old president did not require any attention from the medical team on board.

After he tripped while boarding Air Force One, Biden's comment mocking former President Donald Trump's walking resurfaced on social media.

Last September, Joe Biden mocked Trump's slow walk down a "slippery" ramp after delivering a commencement address at the U.S. Military Academy.

"Look at how he steps and look at how I step... Watch how I run up ramps and he stumbles down ramps. OK? Come on," Biden said at the time, as New York Post reported.

Atlanta Trip

Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris visited Atlanta after a white gunman killed eight people, most of them were Asian American women.

Biden and Harris denounced racism at times like this and offered their words of comfort to the Asian Americans.

The president called on all Americans to stand up against bigotry when they see it, noting that silence is complicit and that Americans cannot be complicit.

"They've been attacked, blamed, scapegoated and harassed; they've been verbally assaulted, physically assaulted, killed," Biden said as Mercury News reported.

Joe Biden described the shootings as an example of a public health crisis of gun violence. Biden's administration has come under criticism from some in his own party for not acting swiftly as he promised on reforming the country's gun laws.

On the other hand, Harris, who is the first person of South Asian descent to hold national office, said that the shooter's motive is still under investigation.

However, she noted that the facts are clear that six of the eight killed were of Asian descent, and seven of them were women.

Harris said that racism is real in America, as well as xenophobia and sexism.

"We will always speak out against violence, hate crimes, and discrimination, wherever and whenever it occurs," Harris noted.

Congress has also talked about the incident, turning the hearing emotional and confrontational with Asian-American congresswomen talking about the shootings.

Representative Judy Chu said that the gunman's targets were not random. She noted that the shootings and attacks targeting Asians are the aftermaths of one year of hateful attacks and four years of ugly comments about immigrants and people of color, South China Morning Post reported.

Biden ordered that U.S. flags at the White House and all federal and military buildings be flown at half-staff to commemorate the victims of the shooting.

Atlanta Shooting

Suspect Robert Aaron Long has admitted to the crimes he committed that left eight people dead. Long, 21, is facing eight counts of murder.

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said that Long was on his way to Florida at the time of his arrest on Tuesday night and indicated that he would do more shootings.

Authorities on Friday identified the victims as Soon C. Park, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Yong A. Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Paul Andre Michels, Xiaojie Tan, and Daoyou Feng. According to a USA Today report, a 30-year-old Hispanic man was also injured.

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