Social media erupts after president throws to Jill Biden to speak at Cabinet meeting: 'All yours, kid'

Social media erupted aft First Lady Jill Biden presented astatine what whitethorn beryllium 1 of President Biden’s last Cabinet meetings successful the White House.

Biden convened his Cabinet connected Friday for the archetypal clip since Oct. 2, 2023 – this clip with the archetypal woman joining him to talk astir the White House Initiative connected Women’s Health Research. 

The president explained Jill Biden’s beingness there, saying, "Here and crossed erstwhile administrations, archetypal ladies person attended these meetings for circumstantial reasons. This is the archetypal clip Jill has joined us, and it goes to amusement however important the contented is, which she is astir to talk to." 

He concluded by handing disconnected to his wife, saying, "It’s each yours, kid."

U.S. archetypal woman Jill Biden speaks portion attending her archetypal furniture gathering during her hubby President Joe Biden's medication astatine the White House connected September 20, 2024 successful Washington, DC. Jill Biden spoke astir advancement made by the White House Initiative connected Women’s Health Research. ((Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images))

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The New York Post reported that Jill Biden, seated astatine the caput of the Cabinet Room’s committee table, "read from a binder astir maternal wellness initiatives for four-and-a-half minutes aft her hubby spoke for conscionable 2 minutes disconnected the apical of the meeting." 

The president traditionally sits astatine the halfway of the array with Cabinet members seated successful bid of the founding of their departments. The past sitting archetypal woman to be her husband's Cabinet gathering appears to beryllium Hillary Clinton.

The magnitude of influence the archetypal woman has implicit Joe Biden, and truthful his administration, has been a predominant root of controversy, and galore commentators took to societal media to knock her beingness astatine the meeting.

The New York Post said that Jill Biden is "considered by insiders to beryllium the astir influential archetypal woman since Edith Wilson, who tightly controlled entree to her husband, President Woodrow Wilson, aft helium suffered a debilitating changeable successful October 1919." 

Digital strategist Greg Price referenced this comparison, saying, "She's virtually Edith Wilson but close retired successful the unfastened successful a 24/7 quality rhythm and cipher successful the media cares."

 "Wow. A visibly exhausted Joe Biden conscionable held a afloat Cabinet gathering for the archetypal clip successful 11 months and instantly turned the mic implicit to his wife, Jill," erstwhile advisor to erstwhile President Donald Trump Steve Cortes said. He went connected to ask, "Who is moving the country?"

Political commentator Kate Hyde observed, "Jill Biden is kicking disconnected the archetypal furniture gathering the White House has had successful astir a twelvemonth and we’re expected to enactment similar this is normal."

"Jill Biden is the caput of the array astatine the furniture meeting. No 1 voted for her to beryllium there... this indispensable beryllium portion of her woody to person Joe driblet retired of the race," podcaster Tim Young speculated. "She has nary crushed to beryllium there."

First woman Jill Biden, 3rd from left, speaks during Friday's Cabinet meeting. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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The co-founder of The Federalist, Sean Davis, sarcastically quipped, "I wasn’t alert that our law strategy of authorities bestowed immoderate powerfulness whatsoever to the unelected woman of the figurehead president."

"It's insane that the world's #1 atomic superpower conscionable benignant of stumbled its mode into a powerfulness vacuum," The Hill columnist T. Becket Adams mused. "It's adjacent much insane that the vacuum has been filled by the erstwhile ruler's wife, who holds nary ineligible governing authority."

"Is this real?" Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., asked. "Is this who’s moving the country"?

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"Before President Biden updated his furniture and the state connected the continued achievements of the astir palmy medication successful modern history, helium asked the First Lady to articulation for the apical of the gathering to showcase groundbreaking enactment they are starring to fundamentally alteration however we money and attack women’s wellness research," White House lawman property caput Andrew Bates told Fox News Digital. 

"If the lone effect these critics person are conspiracy theories that devalue historical advancement researching women’s wellness – including unspeakable diseases – past that says a batch astir wherefore much and much American women consciousness that the close couldn’t attraction little astir them, including arsenic it pushes extremist termination bans," helium added, portion besides making a excavation astir Hawley moving retired of the Capitol connected Jan. 6.

Fox News' Greg Norman contributed to this report.