(DC Pundit) – Former President Joe Biden’s latest holiday trip to Nantucket has once again revived a question conservatives have been asking for years: does Biden remember he’s no longer in the Oval Office, or is he still trying to act like he’s running foreign policy from the sidelines? For a man who lost his grip on the country long before he left Washington, he still can’t seem to resist pretending he’s calling the shots.
The Biden family descended on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, sliding right back into their familiar pattern of luxury vacations and elite insulation. As usual, they stayed in billionaire David Rubenstein’s sprawling mansion. This year they even shut down Main Street on one of the busiest shopping days of the season so they could roam high-end boutiques without interruption. Ordinary Americans preparing for Thanksgiving were left navigating the mess, while the Bidens enjoyed their protected bubble.
But it was Friday’s spectacle that drew the most attention. Biden shuffled through Nantucket before the Christmas tree lighting, moving with the sluggishness that has unfortunately become his trademark. Then he approached a group of Ukrainian women and launched into what sounded very much like unofficial diplomacy. One woman thanked him, saying, “Thank you so much for your support of Ukraine.” Biden responded with, “By the way, I keep pushing as hard as I can [for Ukraine],” and even told them he was still engaging in shadow diplomacy.
Shadow diplomacy. From a former president. In the middle of a vacation town.
During his time in office, Biden poured billions of American taxpayer dollars into Ukraine. U.S. stockpiles of artillery rounds, air-defense missiles, and precision munitions were drained to levels that alarmed military officials. Last summer, the Pentagon even halted some weapons shipments because Biden had drawn down American supplies too far. It was the foreign-policy equivalent of emptying the pantry and then asking why there’s nothing left for dinner.
In the final weeks leading up to Trump’s return to the White House, Biden rushed to send even more money overseas. Last September, his administration announced a staggering $8 billion in military aid during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Washington. And since Russia’s full-scale invasion began, Congress, egged on by Biden, approved nearly $175 billion in aid and military support for Ukraine.
Meanwhile, President Trump is now rebuilding America’s strength, refilling stockpiles, securing the border, and shifting the nation’s focus back where it belongs: on American workers, American families, and American sovereignty.
So whether Biden’s Nantucket moment was confusion, ego, or just habit, it only underscored why voters moved on. The country has a president who’s actually doing the job. Biden’s vacation diplomacy may amuse his fan club, but it has no place in a nation that desperately needed, and now has, real leadership again.
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