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While Americans continue to struggle to afford necessities, President Joe Biden is on another trip courtesy of their tax dollars.

With weeks to go before his lame-duck presidency is put out of its misery, Biden joined his daughter Ashley and a granddaughter on a trek through the Amazon rain forest. Though certainly not an adventurous hike through the jungle, any excursion of this sort may seem challenging for the 81-year-old who turns another year older this week.

“President Joe Biden, the first sitting U.S. president to visit the world’s largest tropical rainforest, said he had left his successor and country a ‘strong foundation to build on, if they choose to do so,’” NBC News reported Monday.

The president’s visit is part of a six-day trip to South America and he is scheduled to go to Rio de Janeiro next for the Group 20 summit.

“I will leave my successor and my country a strong foundation to build on if they choose to do so. It’s true, some may seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that’s underway in America. But nobody, nobody can reverse it. Nobody,” Biden said at a podium set up on a dirt path while in Manaus, Brazil.

A video posted on social media went viral as it showed Biden finishing his remarks and seeming to wander off into the forest. The clip has been viewed a staggering 32.3 million times as of this writing though the full video reportedly shows that “Biden did not ‘wander off’ into the Amazon, but rather walked down a different path which is not clearly visible in the 13-second clip,” according to Newsweek.

(Video Credit: C-SPAN)

However, social media users were focused on the trip and blasted the Democrat for the “waste” of taxpayer dollars even as he reportedly authorized Ukraine to use U.S. long-range missiles on targets inside Russian territory.

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