Former President Joe Biden was spotted shuffling around a chain Italian restaurant in northern Virginia just ahead of elections in the state.
The former president’s frail appearance drew sharp criticism from conservatives, who questioned whether he was being pushed out of recovery by handlers.
Biden, 82, was flanked by Secret Service agents as he slowly made his way through the outdoor patio of Carbonara Restaurant in Arlington. Video posted on social media showed some surprised diners gasping but then applaud when they saw the former president nearly trip as he entered the restaurant.
Take a look —
The very definition of FEEBLE! And he almost tripped over NOTHING.😂
— Ron G (@RonG87424999093) November 4, 2025
Biden was seated across from former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and an unidentified woman inside the restaurant. He reportedly ordered shrimp wrapped in bacon, capellini pasta, and tiramisu, according to local outlet WUSA9.
The 46th president recently completed a weeks-long course of radiation therapy last month for Stage 4 prostate cancer at Penn Medicine Radiation Oncology in Philadelphia. Biden’s team announced that he’d been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that had metastasized to the bone in May. He turns 83 later this month.
It was Biden’s his first public outing since his office announced he started radiation therapy last month.
“Everyone who said this man could serve 4 more years should be endlessly ridiculed,” one user posted on social media.
Rich Staropoli, a former Secret Service agent, said that taxpayers should be paying for a nursing home for Biden… not his security detail.
“It’s a shame that the Secret Service has to waste resources providing a protective detail to this buffoon,” Staropoli wrote on X. “He needs a nurse, not a Secret Service detail.”
“He stole enough money — let him pay for his own security.”
Biden’s dinner with Austin came days after the House Oversight Committee released a report finding the former president’s “inner circle” conspired to “meticulously stage-manage” his public appearances to try and hide his cognitive decline from the public.
The report, titled “The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House,” concluded that dozens of Biden’s executive actions “cannot all be deemed his own” after his closest advisers “went to great lengths to prop up” the 46th president.
The report was based on 14 depositions and transcribed interviews with key Biden aides. Committee Republicans say the report reflects serious evidence that Biden was not fully executing his duties and that staff effectively assumed the powers vested in the presidency without constitutional authority.
Biden has been kept largely out of public since leaving office.