Joe Biden often shows up late to his own pressers and events, sometimes delaying things for an hour or more.
Wednesday at 2:58 pm, President Biden took to the podium in the East Room and began remarks on supply-chain bottlenecks that are causing shortages of consumer goods and threatening to make Christmas gifts late.
What Biden did not address is whatever bottleneck it was that caused him to be 38 minutes late for his 2:20 pm event. Nor did he apologize for keeping everyone waiting.
Perhaps he felt there was no need, because this is to be expected. From June 1 through the end of last week, Biden was an average of 22.4 minutes late for his publicly scheduled events, according to a Fox News tally. He sometimes keeps his audiences waiting an hour or more.
