Joe Biden flew into Michigan on Tuesday to "join" the picket line at the UAW strike, as we reported. 

According to reports, he was there for a whopping 12 minutes and spent under a minute-and-a-half speaking to them. 

Could he have done any less for the photo op? I guess at least it was longer than he spent with the people of East Palestine, which is to say no time at all. 

Biden also remarked on his history of walking the picket lines in the past. This sounds like a bit of his familiar puffery. 

CNN notes he was on a UAW picket line in 2019 when he held no office. But perhaps the more concerning aspect of that statement than the puffery is he's been in the federal government since 1973, when he joined the Senate. That says how ancient he is at this point to be running again for the most powerful office in the land. 

People mocked him for the claim and for only being there for 12 minutes. 

Some were also circulating this picture of one of the people in attendance at the strike. I don't know the full context of the look. But whatever was in this guy's head, it does look like a lot of us feel about Joe Biden's visit. 

Other striking workers nailed Biden by pointing out a big part of the harm being done to the industry by the EV mandate that he's pushing. 

After the ridiculously short photo op, Biden beat it out of there to a fundraiser in California where he'll spend longer than 12 minutes and likely talk about why we all need to drive EVs because of the "existential threat."