Other presidents have used the tactic, too. Richard M. Nixon brought Elvis to the White House. Ronald Reagan turned to Michael Jackson. Jimmy Carter to Johnny Cash. George W. Bush had Bono. Barack Obama went with Jay-Z and Beyonce. Donald Trump had Kanye West. And those are just the highlights. Biden and teenage singer-social media influencer Olivia Rodrigo both donned his signature Aviator sunglasses for pictures in the Oval office last July.
“It is a smart strategy. It is not clear how many people it will move. But, if you want to move people of the other party, devices like this are useful,” said Marc Hetherington, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina. “Someone even less connected to politics than McConaughey would be even better, by the way — like a conservative-leaning country music star who has just seen enough of the killing.”
McConaughey’s emotional remarks, complete with a dramatic lectern-punch, was viewed by many as genuine — he even appeared on Fox News later Tuesday.
That came after Biden initially said he would stay out of the Senate’s mass shooting prevention talks, saying he lacked the authority to “dictate this stuff,” only to deliver a prescriptive primetime address just days later. His message, like other times since Jan. 20, 2021, was erratic and seemed like a square peg trying to jam itself into the round hole a group of bipartisan Senate negotiators are trying to carve with a still-under-construction mass shooting prevention package. The group dismissed his policy demands immediately.
Los Angeles is three time zones and nearly 2,300 miles away from the mass shooting prevention talks, a fitting bit of symbolism for a president who has had little influence on the talks.
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