God Save The Queen

What was Biden talking about when he said, "God save the queen" at the end of his speech over the weekend? No one seems to know. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
President was in Connecticut talking about gun control. The speech
was fairly standard, but you're right, there was something that
was little bizarre at the very end. Take a listen,
and uh, it's the least consequential part of this whole
meeting for you. I promise hi, right, God save the
Queen man. God Saved the Queen Man. It's unclear what
the President was referring to or for. Was some sort

(00:21):
of joke at the end the President shuffled off stage.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Right after that shuffled, Well, that's accurate. So he gave
a speech about guns. Was that what he was talking about?
I think guns? I can't I think so. Yeah, and
then he says, God save the queen. This is from
the Axios article about it Axios no right wing news outlet.
Biden's weird words. President Biden often uses old timey expressions
that confound his own staff. That happened to get on

(00:45):
Friday when he ended a speech on on gun violence
with God Saved the Queen Man. Even Olivia Dalton, the
White House's principal deputy press secretary, didn't know what her
boss meant. When journalists asked, she replied only that he
was commenting on someone in the crowd. Later, the White
House didn't respond when I asked what Biden meant talks
about how Republicans offer how many on someone in the

(01:06):
crowd who was in the crowd, Prince Harry and his
actress wife. Now, it does point out that Biden also
said God saved the Queen when he was Vice president
in January twenty seventeen, so there is a precedent. After
he certified Donald Trump's twenty sixteen election victory. So Axios

(01:28):
asked several incurrent and former Biden aids what the phrase meant.
Several gave different answers. So said they still aren't sure.
As a proud irishman whose ancestors probably weren't fans of
the crown, it may be a phrase of sarcasm. Man
Axo save the Queen. Man Axios points out that Biden
has an arsenal of wacky phrases. During this year's State

(01:50):
of the Union, he told Republican lawmakers lots of luck
in your senior year. Some Biden allies believe that's his
way of saying good luck with that, but at the time,
the White House declined to tell The New York Times
what he meant. And administration officials still chuckle by how
they don't know what he meant either. On the campaign
trail in New Hampshire, he did several years ago, and
did just the other day use the phrase lying dog

(02:12):
faced pony soldier. We played that a whole bunch of times.
He used that just the other day. He's claimed in
the past that that line is from a John Wayne movie,
but film officiados haven't been able to find the movie
or the phrase anywhere.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
He's got so.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Wow, so nobody has any idea where dog facebonies soldier
came from. He said it just like over the weekend
at some event, broke that out again and said it's
from a John Wayne movie, but nobody's been able to
figure out what movie. Wow, God, save the Queen Man,
dog Face they soldier of good luck in your senior year.

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None of his friends or aides or anybody have any
idea what those things mean or where they came from.
Wowd the free world. That is funny. Then he shuffled
off stage that bat and kept care Here you go,