This week first lady Jill Biden channeled her inner Jeb Bush by having her very own “please clap” moment:

“I’ve visited red states and blue states and I’ve found that the common values that unite us are deeper than our divisions,” Biden told an audience at the Reagan Institute Summit on Education in Washington, DC.

After saying the line, the first lady paused for a moment before reacting with surprise at the spectators’ non-reaction.

“And, um, I thought you might clap for that,” said Biden, drawing laughs and applause.

Here’s it unfolded when an expected applause line ended up getting crickets:

In case the first lady was wondering why that line fell flat and didn’t generate applause, the New York Post’s Miranda Devine helped explain:

Yep. “The common values that divide us are deeper than our divisions.” Maybe Jill should have alerted her husband long ago…

Biden knows all about creating divisions. Please don’t clap.

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