Jill Biden claims that she and the president settle disagreements by 'fexting'
Key Takeaways:
- When President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden dispute, they don't say anything in public about it. Instead, she claims, they fight over text messages, which they call "fexting."
When President Joe Biden, as well as first Lady Jill Biden, disagree, they don't discuss it in public. Instead, she claims, they quarrel via text, which they refer to as "fexting."
In an interview with Harper's Bazaar, Jill Biden said that her divorce from her first husband taught her to be self-sufficient and instilled that value in her daughter and granddaughters.
She claims she may soon be sharing White House quarters with her adolescent grandchild.
When Joe Biden was vice president, he and his wife opted to settle their differences through text to avoid fighting in front of their Secret Service personnel, and the practice was termed fexting.
"You realize that's going to go down in history," he informed her when she texted him in a fit of rage. 'That will be documented,' she said. Presidential correspondence is kept on file for historical purposes. "I won't tell you what I called him that time," she informed the interviewer.
The first lady graces the outside of the magazine's June-July issue, which hits newsstands on June 7. According to Harper's Bazaar, this is the first time a US first lady has been featured so extensively in the magazine's 155-year history.
Jill Biden married her first spouse when she was 18 years old. She was divorced, alone, and on her own for the first time in her life by her mid-twenties. She was devastated by the separation since she had adored her parents' marriage and hoped to have a marriage as long-lasting as theirs.
She completed her education and also went on to work as a teacher.
"I knew I'd never put myself in that position again," she added, "where I didn't feel like I had the financial means to be on my own and had to rely on a divorce settlement to receive the money."
"I told Ashley, 'Be independent, be independent,' and she listened. "As well as my granddaughters," she added. "You must be capable of standing on your own two feet," says the narrator.
In 1975, Jill Biden met then-Senator Joe Biden, and the two married two years later.
She continued to teach throughout his political career, eventually becoming the first lady to work outside the White House. She juggles her duties as the first lady with her twice-weekly teaching commitments at Northern Virginia Community College.
Naomi, Naomi's granddaughter, is engaged and has planned a White House wedding event for November. Another grandchild recently informed the first lady that she had been offered an internship in Washington and wanted to spend the summer at the White House.