Barack Obama returns to the White House while the media drool all over themselves,

and Joe Biden returns to being an afterthought as his polls collapse.

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And it was basically the second coming, according to the media.

I mean, it was just an incredibly religious event.

He arrived and he brought with him the light.

He wrote a unicorn down from heaven into the White House.

And they used that unicorn poop to fuel all of America.

It was an incredible, incredible spectacle. And Joe Biden went back

to being a complete waste of time afterthought. That's exactly what happened. According to the

Washington Post, when Joe Biden campaigned for presidents in 2020, Barack Obama was rarely

at his side in Biden's time in the White House. He has not headlined an event with the former

president. Overall, Biden and Obama have seen little of each other recently, despite an ostensibly close relationship

and having residences two miles apart. But on Tuesday afternoon, Obama stepped into the White House

for the first time since vacating the premises in 2017, making way for the newly elected Donald

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