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WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2025
'Smooch of the Union': US first lady steals show with wayward kiss

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BSS/AFP
08 February, 2023, 03:25 pm
Last modified: 08 February, 2023, 03:32 pm

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'Smooch of the Union': US first lady steals show with wayward kiss

BSS/AFP
08 February, 2023, 03:25 pm
Last modified: 08 February, 2023, 03:32 pm
Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff share strange kiss at State of the Union. Photo: Twitter/@nypost
Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff share strange kiss at State of the Union. Photo: Twitter/@nypost

Did they, or didn't they?

For a surreal moment -- just as Joe Biden prepared to deliver his State of the Union speech -- his wife Jill Biden stole the show by appearing to plant a kiss smack on the lips of the vice president's husband.

It happened in a heartbeat: after sweeping into Congress to cheers, the first lady made her way over to the second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, and clasped his hand.

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Then, in a moment destined to go viral, they leaned in for a friendly embrace -- but at least one of them appears to have miscalculated and the result was a kiss either on, or very, very close, to the lips.

First Lady Dr. Jill Biden (@FLOTUS) arrives for #SOTU2023. pic.twitter.com/jmyz6hZfnJ— CSPAN (@cspan) February 8, 2023

"Smooch of the Union," teased the New York Post tabloid -- zooming in on photos of what it declared without a doubt to have been a kiss on the mouth.

Other close-ups of the embrace seemed to show Biden's kiss landing just to one side of Kamala Harris's husband's mouth.

But Fox News -- a frequent critic of Biden's administration -- pounced on the apparent slip-up without the shadow of a doubt.

And Donald Trump's former advisor Kellyanne Conway shared a picture of the smooch with similar delight, quipping: "Wow, Covid really is over."

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