President Biden greets supporters and volunteers during a campaign event at Mary Mac's Tea Room in Atlanta, Georgia on May 18, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Footage showing the apparent lack of fanfare over Biden's motorcade sparked criticisms on social media. Videos circulating online only show short clips of city sidewalks as the president drives by.
"Biden arrived in Georgia to participate in a campaign event, and his motorcade drove through deep blue Atlanta. Nobody cared," one X user named Julia posted.
President Biden poses for a photo with Morehouse College alumni at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, May 18, 2024. (Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz)
Biden joined supporters at Mary Mac’s Tea Room in Atlanta on Saturday afternoon before heading to the Arthur M. Blank Family Office for the fundraiser.
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President Biden attends Morehouse College's graduation ceremony in Atlanta on May 19, 2024. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
"The general feeling on the ground is that we don’t want him here," a student named Malik told WSB-TV in Atlanta earlier this month when Biden’s speech was announced. "It’s very obvious that we’re being used to score political points and get more Black votes. It is so obvious that it’s just about the presidential campaign."
"We don’t want Biden. We don’t want politics. And we definitely don’t want Biden to come speak politics," one student said.
Another remarked, "There’s a lot more other prominent figures right now that can come to our colleges and universities and speak to us as Morehouse men."
Students and faculty also held a protest Friday criticizing the U.S.’s handling of the war in Israel ahead of Biden’s speech.
"I definitely understand from a political aspect why he is coming, but from a human and moral level, it makes no sense for the college to invite him or give him an honorary degree," Morehouse student Anwar Karim told Channel 2.
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Anti-Israel agitators have carried out protests on college campuses nationwide since last month. Morehouse’s president warned that if disruptive protests broke out on campus Sunday, he would shut down commencement proceedings.
"What we won’t allow is disruptive behavior that prevents the ceremony or services from proceeding, in a manner that those in attendance can partake and enjoy. So, for example, prolonged shouting down of the president as he is speaking. I have also made a decision that we will also not ask police to take individuals out of commencement in zip ties," Morehouse College President David Thomas said last week. "If faced with the choice, I will cease the ceremonies on the spot if we were to reach that position. But this will not be a place where there will be a national photo op of individuals being taken out of the Morehouse campus in zip ties by the police authorities."
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Former President Trump throws a kiss to a supporter at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on April 10, 2024. (Reuters/Alyssa Pointer)
Trump also visited Atlanta last month, and was notably surrounded by supporters during his trip – including at a Chick-fil-A, where he bought patrons chicken and milkshakes. He also made a stop for a fundraiser in Buckhead, a neighborhood that tried to secede from Atlanta due to spiraling crime in recent years.
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Dubbed the "Beverly Hills of the South," residents of the Atlanta district tried to secede from the city in 2021 through last year, as violent crimes such as homicides continued an upward trend, as well as when vehicle thefts and shoplifting spiked.
A large crowd gathers on the beach in Wildwood, New Jersey, to hear former President Trump on May 11, 2024. (The Image Direct for Fox News Digital)
Trump has been tied up in a Manhattan courtroom since last month, facing 34 counts of falsifying business records. The case focuses on the prosecution team working to prove Trump falsified business records 34 times to conceal a $130,000 payment to former pornography star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election to quiet her claims of an affair with Trump.
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Trump has pleaded not guilty in the case.
The trial has largely kept him from the campaign trail, but he did hold what has been described as an historic rally in deep blue New Jersey last week, when at least 80,000 supporters joined Trump on the beaches of Wildwood. He is expected to hold his next rally in the Bronx, another historically deep blue area, which will be his first New York rally since 2016.
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