His frequent falls didn’t exactly help reassure voters about his fitness for office.

According to NBC, Biden’s aides realized they had a serious problem when the former president tripped hard over a sandbag at the Air Force Academy’s graduation ceremony. In a post-event recap, several aides tried to figure out what had gone wrong and how to make sure such an embarrassing — and potentially dangerous — incident would “never happen again.”

In the months that followed, his team appeared to make quiet concessions to his age, all in hopes of avoiding viral moments that might reinforce public concerns about his ability to serve. One of those changes included having Biden use the shorter set of stairs to board and disembark the presidential