President Joe Biden speaking during a meeting about offshore wind at the White House on June 23. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden speaking during a meeting about offshore wind at the White House on June 23. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
  • Biden accidentally flashed his cue card for a White House meeting, which held simple instructions.
  • They included “YOU take YOUR seat” as well as an instruction to say hello to the guests.
  • Cue cards are common, but right-wing commentators treated this one as a serious gaffe.

President Joe Biden accidentally flashed a cue card at a White House meeting on Thursday, offering a glimpse of simple instructions for the process of the meeting.

Biden gave remarks in the Roosevelt Room to a gathering of state governors about a partnership with 11 states to speed up the growth of the offshore wind industry and its domestic supply chain in the US.

The photographer documenting the event captured one of the documents Biden used during the meeting: a cue card titled “The President” with the title of the event and bullet-pointed instructions seemingly for Biden.

A photo of the list, which is somewhat blurry, can be seen below:

A close-up of the cue card held by Biden at a meeting with wind-energy leaders in the White House on June 23. Image cropped by Insider. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Insider

© Drew Angerer/Getty Images/InsiderA close-up of the cue card held by Biden at a meeting with wind-energy leaders in the White House on June 23. Image cropped by Insider. Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Insider

The full list of instructions reads:

  • “YOU enter the Roosevelt Room and say hello to participants.”
  • “YOU take YOUR seat. “
  • “Press enters.”
  • “YOU give brief comments” — this note was partially blocked by Biden’s finger.
  • “Press departs.”
  • “YOU ask Liz Shuler, President, AFL-CIO, a question. Note: Liz is joining virtually.”
  • “YOU thank participants.”
  • “YOU depart.”

Twitter reactions to Biden needing a note card for basic actions questioned who is really in charge.

Columnist Andrew Malcolm: “We are So Screwed: Joe Biden Accidentally Reveals His Step-by-Step Notes on How to Act, What to Say–‘Enter Room Say Hello Take Your Seat…'”

Writer Carmine Sabia: “This is sad. President Joe Biden needs a card to tell him to do basic things like sit.”

Radio show host Clay Travis: “They literally have to write out every basic instruction for Joe Biden. I have never seen instructions like this for any person leading any meeting I’ve ever attended in my life. I bet you haven’t either. Biden has dementia. It’s clear to anyone with a functional brain. They spent four years putting doctors on air discussing the 25th amendment for Trump with a scintilla of the evidence indicting Joe Biden’s mental faculties. Who wrote this note card and what are they hiding if this note is necessary? I’d like to see them testify under oath.”

TV host Greg Raymond Kelly: “ON @JoeBiden’s Note Card-there are BASIC INSTRUCTIONS on what Joe is supposed to do. 1. Walk in room. 2. Sit Down. 3. Speak 4. Ask question. Is he in NURSERY SCHOOL?”

Former Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller: “White House staff clearly has exceptionally low confidence in Biden’s cognitive abilities. If GOP gains house they will need to hold hearings on Biden’s diminished capacity and subpoena aides to get their testimony under oath.”

Activist Sarah Idan: “I hope this is not true because if it is we need to ask who’s in charge of our president. Sorry this just doesn’t look right.”

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro: “‘YOU inhale. YOU exhale. YOU inhale. YOU exhale.'”

Talk show host Chris Stigall: “This is Joe Biden inadvertently showing cameras a note card prepared for him today at a White House event. Disturbing, to say the least.”