President Joe Biden sounds different in an address to the public today.
(Picture: AP)President Joe Biden sounded totally different during a press conference, prompting people online to react with both humor and concern.
While addressing the public this morning, Biden spoke in a noticeably lower register.
Biden has lots of bass in his voice today pic.twitter.com/Zpwsqv7jpL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 3, 2021
During the press conference, reporter Peter Doocy asked Biden if he was okay, citing that his voice sounded “a little different.” Biden replied that while he’s taken a Covid test every day and has been tested for all the strains, he contracted a cold from his one-year-old grandson. “
Peter Doocy asks Biden if he's okay. Biden says he has a cold. pic.twitter.com/ofrPZN4uDO
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 3, 2021
“I’m OK. I have a test every day to see, a Covid test, they check me for all the strains,” Biden said when asked about his new voice. “What I have is a one-and-a-half year-old grandson who had a cold who likes to kiss his pop.”
The reactions poured in immediately.
What is wrong with Biden’s voice?
— TheMorningSpew2 (@TheMorningSpew2) December 3, 2021
Something sounds very off about Biden’s voice today pic.twitter.com/wDAm9WXHFv
— Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) December 3, 2021
One user said Biden sounded “alarmingly” hoarse. Another said Biden sounded “very off.” This caused people to speculate whether or not the president had contracted Covid in replies to the tweets.
Joe Biden’s voice alarmingly hoarse this morning
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) December 3, 2021
Something sounds very off about Biden’s voice today pic.twitter.com/wDAm9WXHFv
— Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) December 3, 2021
The amount of “bass” in Biden’s voice led someone to say he sounded like Barry White:
The hell is going on with Biden’s voice? He sounds like Barry White.
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) December 3, 2021
Joe Biden's voice is so low right now he gives Barry White a run for his money. The President's typical warm tenor timbre has dropped about eleventy thousand octaves, and he's now a true bass.
— Josh Kruger (@JoshKrugerPHL) December 3, 2021
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Comparisons were made to Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, who famously spoke in a bizarrely lower register:
Joe Biden borrowed Elizabeth Holmes' voice
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 3, 2021
One user asked if the 79-year-old was going through puberty:
Is Biden going through puberty? Why does his voice sound like someone else?
— CritzBitz (@critz_bitz) December 3, 2021
Business Insider reporter Bryan Metzger wrote that he ‘liked’ Biden’s new voice:
i, for one, like biden's weird sick voicehttps://t.co/G1OhjaiTaI
— bryan metzger (@metzgov) December 3, 2021
Concern for Biden’s health has risen amid reports of the new and potentially more dangerous omicron variant of Covid-19 reached North America this week.
