Jill Biden squeezes out final first lady perk with private tour of National Zoo's adorable new pandas from China

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By GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR

Published: 20:11 EST, 18 January 2025 | Updated: 20:18 EST, 18 January 2025

First woman Jill Biden managed to people 1 last perk during her past hours successful her role, getting a backstage circuit of the National Zoo's caller pandas.

Her bureau posted video of the brushwood connected Facebook and Instagram, conscionable hours earlier President-elect Donald Trump and erstwhile archetypal woman Melania Trump flew to D.C. to footwear disconnected inaugural festivities.

She was accompanied by Hunter Biden's lad Beau, who sported a lined jean overgarment with an American emblem spot – and who tin beryllium heard exclaiming astatine the 'cute' pandas connected video. Hunter, who got a pardon from his father, has been a fixture astatine the White House arsenic his dad's tenure winds down.

There are reports that the archetypal woman is seething astatine Democrats similar Nancy Pelosi who helped propulsion her hubby to springiness up his reelection bid, but that didn't halt her from enjoying herself connected a sojourn with D.C.'s biggest personage animals.

'Let's spot if he'll crook and look astatine us,' Jill says.

'Oh yeah. Awww,' she coos.

The edited video includes the dependable of shutter snaps, and is titled 'First Lady Meets New Pandas,' with a White House logo.

A National Zoo staffer tin beryllium heard providing a tour. 

'Can we present you to 1 of the pandas here,' says the usher astatine the Smithsonian installation successful Northwest, D.C.

'Wow however chill is that!' exclaims Jill, who advocated for the pandas and blasted retired the announcement of their accomplishment backmost successful May.

She is simply a specified a Giant Panda instrumentality that she adjacent wore a panda costume for Halloween

Jill Biden got a backstage look astatine DC's caller pandas connected 1 of her past days arsenic archetypal lady

An off-camera dependable tin beryllium heard introducing the caller high-profile D.C. residents – secured aft prolonged negotiations done what is sometimes called 'panda diplomacy.'

The pandas came arsenic portion of a 10-year woody negotiated with China. The Smithsonian Zoo pays $1 cardinal to a conservation relation to assistance endangered pandas successful China.

The signifier has travel nether accrued scrutiny, arsenic China requires zoos to wage hefty fees and instrumentality offspring of the panda pairs. Local zoos are often hopeless to support the revenue-generating pandas, which get lumped into analyzable planetary talks amid unit connected China for its quality rights grounds and commercialized practices

The White House made a video of the encounter

The archetypal woman got an up-close look

'How chill is that?' she said

The U.S. pays $1 cardinal a twelvemonth to Chinese panda conservation arsenic portion of the woody that brought the brace here

Beau Biden, 4, was with his grandparents connected Friday erstwhile they went to Joint Base Andrews for an event

Jill Biden dressed arsenic a panda for Halloween

Snack time: Bao Li munched connected bamboo during the encounter

'This is Bao Li, which means "energetic treasure,"' says the guide.    

'This is Qing Bao.  It's similar "green mountainous treasure,' she adds.

'That's cute right?' says the archetypal lady. 

'Cute,' says Beau, 

President Biden has been trying to marque the astir of his last hours successful office, flying to California to state a caller nationalist monument (although helium had to scrub the lawsuit and bring it backmost to D.C. aft the outbreak of the horrific fires successful Los Angeles).

He is acceptable to alert to Charleston connected Sunday – though helium had nary nationalist events Saturday.

Biden and the archetypal woman were acceptable to alert to Rome to conscionable the Pope, but the White House said helium cancelled the travel to woody with the fires. 

They are some acceptable to person beverage with the Trumps connected Monday greeting earlier attending Trump's inauguration – thing the Trumps didn't bash for them 4 years ago.

Then, they're readying to caput westbound for a abrogation successful California. 

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