Biden returns to fake White House ready to turn on jobs report

President Biden returned to his fake White House setting as the backdrop to his reaction to the disappointing September jobs report on Friday, days after the mockup was widely circulated on social media.

Although the White House offers several venues suitable for presidential remarks – including the Oval Office, the East Room, the State Dining Room, and even the Brady Press Conference Room – the administration has increasingly chosen to ‘use the model set up in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, opposite the Executive Mansion itself.

In recent weeks, Biden has used the venue to get a COVID-19 reminder, as well as for virtual meetings – whether that’s with CEOs on raising the federal debt ceiling, world leaders on the pandemic and the change, or FEMA staff on the progress of Hurricane Ida – and the Aug. 23 remarks in which he urged employers to adopt vaccination mandates.

According to the White House website, the South Court auditorium was used for 36 official events involving Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris less than nine months after taking office. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield also used the set for events.

The set caused a social media frenzy on Wednesday during Biden’s call with CEOs when viewers noticed a digitally created view of the White House rose garden behind one of the cutout windows.

Former adviser to former President Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, hinted on Twitter that the auditorium was chosen “because it allows it [Biden] to read a script directly from a front-facing monitor (and without a teleprompter glass that can be seen on camera).

Other social media users ridiculed the president for using a “literal game show set,” while others accused him of deliberately trying to trick Americans into believing he was in. the White House.

“Why did the White House build a complete game show with fake windows for Joe Biden ???” tweeted Abigail Marone, press secretary to Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), summing up the views of many. “So strange.”