Presidential motorcade to NIH HQ causes major traffic delays on DC Beltway

President Joe Biden’s motorcade delayed traffic Thursday in Washington, D.C.

Biden arrived at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center to give a speech on prescription drug prices. Meanwhile, Washington’s Interstate 495 was shut down in both directions to make way for the president.

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One driver who captured the motorcade en route to the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, on video, posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he had been stuck in traffic for over an hour and a half.

“Literally trapped for hours in your motorcade traffic!!!” another user wrote to the president on X. “Can you not do this to us? We LIVE here.”

“Are you aware of the utter traffic chaos you caused between 355, 270, the beltway and GW parkway tonight with your motorcade at RUSH HOUR this evening?” another user wrote to Biden. “Don’t they have a helipad at NIH man? Do you even care?”

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NIH does have a helicopter pad called the Walter Reed Landing Zone for air traffic stops. By car, the distance between the nation’s capital and Bethesda is under half an hour.

In March 2020, then-President Donald Trump visited the NIH for the first time in his presidency. At the time, he traveled by helicopter. There are also photos of President Lyndon B. Johnson arriving via helicopter.