President Biden and his son Hunter Biden were among the first family members to go for a Thanksgiving swim in the chilly waters of Nantucket Thursday.
“The fall of the annual Biden family polar bear. Happy Thanksgiving!” Naomi Biden, the president’s 81-year-old granddaughter, wrote in a X post.
Naomi included a photo showing several members of the Biden clan wrapped in towels and standing on a rocky beach after their Turkey Day cold swim.
The water temperature in Nantucket Sound was a bitter 48 F Thursday afternoon.
Joe famously spent nearly every Thanksgiving on the island since 1975.
While serving as vice president, Joe and his grandchildren regularly participated in Nantucket’s annual Cold Turkey Plunge, a charity event in which participants raced into icy salt water and rushed back to shore.
The Biden family traditionally spends Thanksgiving on the Massachusetts island. Naomi Biden/X
This time, it seems the president chose to use the waters from billionaire David Rubenstein’s 13-acre beachfront estate for his traditional swim.
Joe and his extended family spent six days at the hedge fund billionaire’s luxury mansion – the same estate where they spent the holidays in 2021 and 2022.
The White House declined to say whether the president paid to rent the $38.9 million property from Rubenstein.
The president and his family vacationed at billionaire David Rubenstein’s 13-acre Nantucket compound. Google Maps
Before her afternoon swim, president and first lady Jill Biden dropped off some pumpkin pie at the Nantucket Fire Department and chatted with first responders.
Joe briefly answered a barrage of questions from reporters about the hostage situation in Gaza and Americans imprisoned in Russia.
“I’m not ready to give updates until it’s done,” he said of the breakthrough deal between Hamas and Israel that could see 50 hostages held by the terror group released early Friday.
The president said he had always “understood” that a 3-year-old Israeli-American girl was among the hostages Hamas terrorists planned to release on Friday. AFP via Getty Images
When asked if Abigail Mor Edan, a 3-year-old Israeli-American girl held captive in the Palestinian territories, would be among those released, the commander-in-chief said, “I have no idea.”
Asked if he had a message for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan, Joe 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 charges.
The US government, Gershkovich and Whelan deny the allegations.
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