President of the US Joe Biden seems to have a problem climbing up the portable stairway to Air Force One. At his age that doesn't seem so unusual. You have to wonder if he has handicapped plates on his Corvette.
What's really curious is the stairway that he has such difficulty ascending. No doubt the Secret Service and whoever else puts together the travel arrangements for the most powerful man earth is reluctant to allow the guy to emerge from a limo outside the terminal, wander through the boarding area and amble down the jetway to AF 1. Who knows what maniac reincarnation of John Wilkes Booth might emerge from a men's room and create a big problem?
Airports have jetways now so these stairways on wheels are no longer needed or even available at any but the most primitive facilities. The one that Biden is gamboling up has no doubt been brought to Poland in pieces from the US by a special crew of secret agents on a very large aircraft in advance of his trip and reassembled on site. The mechanism is under armed guard at all times.They may well have more than one of these large, heavy stairways spotted in other locations in anticipation of a later visit.
The question is: stairways are an anachronism in buildings now. A new two-story school wouldn't have just a stairway to even the second floor. It would have an elevator. In fact, it's required. Doesn't it seem reasonable that the super smart and efficient US government would have designed and built an easily transportable elevator that could lift the president from the tarmac to the doorway of AF 1 without the risk of the geezer tripping, falling and embarrassing himself and his country? But, maybe they have. And they don't wish to use it. Instead, the president walks up the stairway, by himself, you'll notice, without a doubt as a demonstration of his agility despite his advanced age. No one is attending him on his ascent, no other figures are visible. He is a solitary statesman, in control of himself and the precarious situation in which his country and the world finds itself. At least that was the plan. And everything is planned.
Obviously, the president is afflicted by neuropathy.
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