WATCH: Biden tells preschoolers that he tries to ‘avoid answering’ questions from reporters as president

President Joe Biden jokingly informed a gaggle of younger youngsters Monday that a part of his job as president is to “avoid answering” questions from the press.

“As president, see all these people here? They’re with you all the time,” Biden mentioned throughout remarks, pointing to members of the media behind a classroom at East End Elementary, a public faculty in North Plainfield, New Jersey.

“They get to ask you all kinds of questions, and you try to figure out how you’re gonna avoid answering them sometimes,” Biden added, whereas laughing.

According to NJ.com, Biden was talking to preschool college students when he visited a pair of pre-Okay lessons on the Somerset County faculty, the primary of two stops the commander-in-chief was scheduled to make within the state Monday to promote his expensive “Build Back Better” agenda being debated in Congress.

A boy named Landon confirmed Biden the t-shirt he was sporting. “Future president,” the clothes learn. “You got to remember me when you’re president,” Biden informed the kid, earlier than launching into his recommendation about coping with reporters.

Biden watched one other preschooler’s infrastructure venture toppled. “That was my fault,” Biden apologized after the Lego construction fell. “I made you look up.”

“I like Legos,” he mentioned, admiring the a number of building-block creations the preschool college students had constructed as he continued to pitch his spending plans.

Biden has been criticized for not taking questions throughout press briefings and being too scripted throughout media appearances. “I’m not supposed to take any questions, but go ahead,” Biden mentioned throughout a go to to the National Response Coordination Center at FEMA headquarters after Hurricane Ida prompted descruction in Louisiana. “I’m not going to answer on Afghanistan now,” Biden mentioned.

When the president does open his mouth, his speeches are affected by gaffes and uncomfortable commentary that’s earned him the nickname “Creepy Uncle Joe.”

At the Capitol Child Development Center in Hartford, Connecticut, the president mentioned mid-October, “Everybody is aware of I like children higher than individuals,” a press release that coincides with Biden’s previous eyebrowing-raising remarks towards youngsters.