A weary Biden heads for the exit


Biden walking to the Oval Office in Washington. Still stinging from the election, he has absented himself from the national conversation about Trump after warning repeatedly that he was a threat to American democracy. — ©2025 The New York Times Company

IT was a long day in Angola. US President Joe Biden had already visited a port facility bracketed with cranes and toured a factory filled with conveyor belts.

So by the time he sat down at a large wooden circular table in a warm, stuffy room with African leaders, he put his head in his hand and briefly closed his eyes as the speeches droned on.

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