President Joe Biden is given detailed instructions with pictures and large font instructing him on how to enter and leave venues ahead of planned events, it has emerged.
A template provided to event staffers, and obtained by Axios, shows how Biden’s aides prepare a short document with a photograph that depicts his precise route he needs to use to ‘walk to the podium’.
The template also reportedly included memos that showed the ‘view from podium’ and ‘view from audience’, which were also accompanied by photographs.
The White House has claimed the short memos are ‘basic approaches’ that are critical to Biden’s ‘advance work’ as president, adding that the same approached is also used by Vice President Kamala Harris‘ team.
But some event staff have said they were ‘surprised’ by the memos and do not think a ‘seasoned political pro’ should need verbal and visual guidance on ‘how to enter and exit a room’.