Is Biden, 80, the only president who has struggled on the Air Force One stairs? trends now
President Joe Biden concluded his three-day European trip with exactly that - a fall up the stairs as he boarded Air Force One in Warsaw to return to the United States.
The 80-year-old is stranger to embarrassing moments on the plane's steps, but he's also following in the footsteps of several modern presidents.
Presidents Barack Obama and Gerald Ford each had trouble with the presidential plane's stairs, while former President Donald Trump boarded the aircraft with a piece of toilet paper stuck to his shoe.
Biden's latest spill on the stairs - the second of his presidency - comes as questions surround whether he'll run for reelection, and after Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley proclaimed that political candidates older than 75 should submit to 'competency tests.'
President Joe Biden briefly fell as he walked up the stairs to board Air Force One Wednesday as he departed Warsaw after a three-day trip to Kyiv and the Polish capital
When he turned 80 in November, Biden became the first president in history to mark that birthday in the White House.
Biden's latest fall followed a spill up the stairs in March 2021, just two months into his tenure, during a windy day at Joint Base Andrews, and a June 2022 fall off his bike during a Rehoboth Beach trip.
Biden had pedaled over to say hello to a group of onlookers and his foot got stuck on his toe clip, causing him to fall to the side.
He immediately got up after Secret Service scrambled to assist him.
The president quickly recovered from his Air Force One stairway falls too.
The stumbles have added to the narrative that Biden is gaffe-prone.
Despite being a student athlete, Ford had a reputation of being clumsy too.
The most memorable example came on June 1, 1975 when the Republican president fell down Air Force One's slippery stairs as he arrived in Salzburg, Austria.
