Biden honors World Series champions at first public event in a week

President Joe Biden held his first public event Thursday since last week, when he celebrated the successful prisoner swap with Russia.

The president welcomed the 2023 World Series champion Texas Rangers to the White House East Room, where he celebrated the team's historic playoff run after failing to win the division last summer.

"As you know, it's been 50 years since this franchise left Washington," the president stated, noting how the Rangers franchise originated in Washington before relocating to Arlington, Texas. "Now, you're back in the nation's capital as World Champions, and you deserve it."

"What you do matters because that's America at its best," Biden continued. "Congratulations to the World Champion Texas Rangers, and good luck for the rest of the season."

Following Biden's brief remarks, Rangers manager Bruce Bochy gifted the president a jersey bearing his name and the number 46, along with a pair of cowboy boots.

Prior to the East Room event, and shortly after a meeting in the White House situation room, Biden mingled with the Rangers players.

The president told them where he had come from and joked that if the players wanted to follow him to the Middle East with their bats, they would be welcome to help, a person in the room told the Washington Examiner.

Biden has kept an extremely low profile since ceding the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination to Vice President Kamala Harris . Veteran Democratic operatives told the Washington Examiner that the best way the president can help Harris is by staying out of the limelight.

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The president exited Thursday's event without stopping to answer questions from reporters and immediately departed the White House for an event at the Harris, formerly Biden, campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.

The president will then travel to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where he will remain through the weekend.