President Biden and his son Hunter Biden were among the first family to take a Thanksgiving swim in the frigid offshore waters. Nantucket THURSDAY.
“Annual Biden Family Polar Bear Dive.” Happy Thanksgiving!” Naomi Biden, the 81-year-old president’s granddaughter, wrote in a Message.
Naomi included a photo showing some of the Biden clan wrapped in towels and standing on a rocky beach after their freezing Turkey Day swim.
The water temperature in Nantucket Sound was 48 F Thursday afternoon.
Joe has spent almost every Thanksgiving on the island since 1975.
While he was vice president, Joe and his grandchildren were frequent attendees at the Nantucket annual meeting. Cold turkey dipa charity event in which participants run through freezing salt water and rush back to shore.
This time, it appears that the president has chosen to use the waters of billionaire David Rubenstein’s project. 13-acre beachfront estate for its traditional bathing.
Joe and his extended family spend six days at the hedge fund billionaire’s lavish mansion – the same compound where they vacationed in 2021 and 2022.
The White House has refused to say if the president pays to lease the $38.9 million property from Rubenstein.
Before her afternoon swim, the president and first lady Jill Biden delivered several pumpkin pies to Nantucket firefighters and chatted with first responders.
Joe briefly answered reporters’ questions about the hostage situation in Gaza and American citizens imprisoned in Russia.
“I’m not ready to take stock until it’s done,” he said of the landmark deal between Hamas and Israel that could see the release of 50 hostages held by the group terrorist early Friday.
Asked if Abigail Mor Edan, a 3-year-old Israeli-American girl held captive in the Palestinian territory, would be among those freed, the commander in chief replied, “Fingers crossed.”
He was asked if he had a message for Evan Gershkovich, Wall Street Journal reporter and old US Navy Paul WhelanJoe replied, “We’re not giving up.”
Gershkovich has been detained on espionage charges in Russia since March, and Whelan was sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a Russian penal colony in 2020 after his 2018 arrest on espionage allegations.
The US government, Gershkovich and Whelan deny the accusations.
