President Biden’s Vince-inducing Series of Stumbles while riding on Airforce One on Friday called for a fall on the same stairs, keeping in mind Gerald Ford’s 1975 – a minor malfunction that forever left him as a crappy oaf. It fades away.
Chevy Chase shot Ford in a series of ruthless and hilarious “Saturday Night Live” skits – even though the object of his ridicule was just 62 years old, and an ex-University of Michigan football star who avidly skid and golf .
But Ford’s grab-on-camera stumbles down the rainy steps of Air Force One in Austria – as well as a Biden-esque trip soon while climbing the same set of stairs in Michigan – to crown Ford the Clut Was required to give. in chief.
As Bumbling Ford, Chase’s ham-handed of the Resolute Desk telephone and his lecherous pretense continued week-to-week – to the point where the president decided he needed to clap back.
After a radio and television press association dinner in 1975, Ford was boarding the podium to speak, when he secretly climbed onto the edge of the tablecloth where Chase was sitting – sending tableware en route to the comedian.
Ford made sure to look back over his shoulder in mock surprise.
“I am Gerald Ford, and you are not,” he was deadpanned for Chase after inviting the comedian to perform at a White House dinner in March 1976, as the show drew a thunderous applause and applause from the audience. Theft.
Other presidents – and will-be presidents – have survived their own journeys and fall relatively untimely.
In 2011, Hillary Clinton fell as Secretary to then President Barack Obama, when she left Yemen and boarded a plane.
“You know, those things happen,” she later said.
The then presidential candidate Bob Dole fell from a stage during the 1996 election campaign. President George HW Bush collapsed while bowling in Milwaukee during the 1992 campaign. And his son, President George W. Bush, fell from a segway in 2003 in Kennebunkport, Maine.
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