President Biden shocked attendees at the White House’s National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on Thursday night when he doffed his stocking cap to reveal long, wispy locks — appearing more like a character out of Charles Dickens’ Yuletide classic than the commander-in-chief.
His white, billowy hair stood on end from the wool cap’s static electricity, spooking the White House press corps by making him seem older — and ghostlier — than usual.
“You’re still here?” he said in a playful jab at the journalists huddled in the frigid air on the South Lawn after he delivered his remarks to the crowd.
The shocking portraits of the 82-year-old president immediately began circulating online, earning him comparisons to the cast of “A Christmas Carol.”
“Dude literally looks like [Jacob] Marley’s Ghost at this point,” one X user offered, referencing the ex-partner of Ebenezer Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol” who comes to warn the miser of his looming fate.
“Biden about to be visited by the ghosts of corruption past present and future,” another carped in a veiled swipe at the president’s sweeping pardon of his son Hunter ahead of federal sentencing for gun and tax offenses — which covers any other