President Joe Biden’s schedule for the week of August 4-10 was noticeably empty once again as the 81-year-old commander-in-chief’s biggest events were two phone calls and one meeting with the 2023 World Series-winning Texas Rangers.
Biden, who dropped out of the 2024 race last month but insisted he maintains the mental and physical capacity to remain as president, talked over the phone with King Abdullah of Jordan on Monday before flying from his Delaware home to the White House, according to his public schedule.
The president’s next big events of the week are scheduled for Thursday afternoon, when he will call Hawaii Democratic Gov. Josh Green and Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen “to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the tragic Maui wildfires and those who lost their lives.” Later on Thursday, Biden will meet with the Texas Rangers at the White House “to celebrate…
