Director Ron Howard has been tripping and falling over sandbags all of his life

Fortunately, President Joe Biden wasn’t seriously hurt when he tripped and fell at the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony. It did take a few people to lift him back up, though.

Those in the mainstream media who covered the fall at all took a “Republicans pounce” angle, with CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell saying “that fall has already become a talking point for Republicans running for the White House.”

Our favorite spin on the whole incident was the conspiracy theory that the Secret Service is still loyal to Donald Trump and set the sandbag there on purpose.

Here’s how Ed Krassenstein covered it:

I’ve probably tripped on things much smaller than a sandbag at least 20 times in my life, and I’m just 41.

Biden tripped on a sandbag one time and he’s 80.

The Secret Service is most responsible for this. They should have made sure there wasn’t anything in his way.

I would… pic.twitter.com/BUVXbmJCFq

— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) June 1, 2023

Kressenstein is trying to spin the trip and fall, but his post inspired director Ron Howard to start a thread asking people to share their own tripping incidents. Everybody trips!

Good point, I’ve been tripping and falling and bumping into things especially on movie sets with sandbags and cables all around…but hell, also my own back yard ….all my life. Anyone else? describe a sober-yet-tripping incident of your own https://t.co/kT1DqDxMBh

— Ron Howard (@RealRonHoward) June 3, 2023

DNC calling out the big guns!

— DaltonBro (@OnlyfansisOP) June 3, 2023

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Yeah, all the time playing football. I ran full speed and smashed into people much bigger. We would get up and do it a hundred more times in one afternoon.

If I did that today, I'd spend a week in the hospital. If I did that when at 80, I'd be dead. Which is the point.

— Jon DiPietro (@jondipietronh) June 3, 2023

Apart from 'constant' tripping, falling, not knowing where to go, etc, is an 80 year-old-man fit to govern a state? Any man, any state?

— AyşeÜnsal (@unsal_ayse_) June 3, 2023

People are actually posting photos of their scabbed hands and chins. And all of those people look a lot younger than 80.

Good effort by Howard to put a happy face on Biden’s faceplant.

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‘Secret Service’ is trending because apparently they failed to protect Biden from falling down https://t.co/rVYCAFuv8g

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 2, 2023