Bidens' cat, Willow, brings the cat-itude in new White House holiday video
President Biden and Jill Biden’s cat, Willow, is getting ready for a purr-fect Christmas, as she’s featured prominently in a new video highlighting the White House’s holiday décor.
“Willow, you have snow on your fur!” Jill Biden exclaimed in the video released Wednesday by The Dodo, as the first pet rolled around in some faux flakes adorning one of the holiday displays at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. as part of its “Magic, Wonder, and Joy” theme this year.
In the video, the three-year-old gray feline is seen working her way around the White House decorations, at one point curiously sniffing a life-sized cat figure meant to be her likeness.
“It was amazing, really. She came to one of my speeches in a barn. She came and sat on the chair and listened to the speech,” the first lady recalled of when she first came face-to-whisker with Willow. Biden has said she grew fond of the cat after it jumped onstage and interrupted her during a speech in 2020 at a campaign stop at a farm in Willow Grove, Pa.
The Bidens announced last year that they had welcomed Willow to the White House.
In The Dodo video, executive producer Joanna Zelman is heard saying she’s “never been so nervous to meet a cat.”
But, Zelman indicated in a statement, the interaction with Willow ended up being the cat’s meow.
Willow, Zelman said, is “maybe the friendliest cat I’ve ever pet. And I’ve pet a lot of cats.”
It’s not the first time that the short-haired tabby has played a four-legged tour guide-of-sorts — she starred in a video with The Dodo in 2022 when she first arrived at the White House.