Biden refused to board British naval ship as a result of ‘too many steps,’ Boris Johnson claims

President Biden refused to go to the British Navy’s new flagship plane provider due to the quantity of steps — and took “a little bit of shine” to Boris Johnson’s spouse throughout his 2021 go to, the previous UK prime minister claimed in his upcoming autobiography.

The president and Johnson met forward of the G7 summit in Cornwall, the place the British authorities had “proudly stationed” its large $4.3 billion warship, The HMS Prince of Wales, Johnson wrote in his new e-book, “Unleashed.”

Johnson and his aides had questioned earlier than Biden’s first presidential journey overseas whether or not the US chief, then 78, was “actually as elderly-seeming as his detractors typically stated,” in line with an excerpt from Johnson’s e-book obtained by The Telegraph.

“His workers instructed us that he wouldn’t actually be boarding our huge plane provider — which we had proudly stationed within the bay — as a result of it had so many steps; and we questioned what that meant about his bodily health,” Johnson stated.

Biden did, nevertheless, appear spry sufficient to joke with Johnson’s new spouse, then-33-year-old Carrie, whom he appeared to “take a little bit of shine” to, the previous prime minister wrote.

Biden, who attended the summit together with his spouse Jill, stated each he and Johnson had “married above ourselves” — and joked he and Carrie sneak off for a stroll alone.

“‘Why don’t you and I am going right down to the seaside … and go away this man right here?’” he quipped to Carrie as “Jill Biden rolled her eyes,” Johnson wrote in his memoir.

Biden’s 2021 G7 journey was marked by a number of embarrassing blunders, together with a second throughout a roundtable dialogue the place he corrected Johnson for not introducing “the president of South Africa” — regardless that Johnson already did so by identify.

The president bowed out of his reelection race in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris amid considerations about his psychological and bodily capabilities following his disastrous debate with former President Donald Trump in June.

Johnson’s autobiography will probably be launched on Oct. 10.