NEW YORK POST
WASHINGTON — President Biden turned heads Thursday by jokingly telling a group of African leaders that he plans to visit their continent, but that he might “eat all your food.”
The 80-year-old president made the crack while dusting off one of his frequent laugh lines about being a “poor relative” who overstays his welcome but drew groans from those in attendance due to food insecurity in Africa.
“I’m grateful that all of you have made the journey to Washington for this summit, and I’m eager to visit your continent,” Biden told the representatives of 50 African nations at DC’s convention center after hosting them for a White House dinner Wednesday night.
“As I told some of you — you invited me to your countries. I said, ‘Be careful what you wish for because I may show up.’ The poor relatives always show up. The wealthy ones never show up. The poor come and they eat your food and stay longer than they should.”
Biden added, “Well, I’m looking forward to seeing many of you in your home countries.”
…Biden added that there was “enormous potential” for Africa to use its “significant unused arable farmland” to “feed its people and also help feed the world.” He said the US Agriculture Department would help promote that effort.
The US president convened the African leaders — many of them fabulously wealthy thanks to theft from their own people — as the American government seeks to counter Chinese inroads in the region.
Mini-motorcades escorted by police cars with flashing sirens escorted the men to and from their luxury hotels near the White House this week, snarling DC traffic.
Only Eritrea and the leaders of four nations suspended by the African Union for recent coups — Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Sudan — were not represented.
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