A Marine injured by a suicide bomber during the US military’s chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan described a bizarre meeting with President Biden from his hospital bed — during which the commander-in-chief attempted to shake his missing hand. 

Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews recounted the odd encounter during an appearance on the “Shawn Ryan Show,” which aired last week. 

The Marine lost his right arm and a leg as a result of the ISIS-K suicide attack outside Abbey Gate at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport in August 2021.

He recalled that he was so shaken by the attack, which killed 13 US service members and more than 160 Afghans, that he couldn’t remember who the president was moments before Biden entered his room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. 

“Who’s the f–king president?” Vargas-Andrews remembered thinking.

“I had no idea who the president was. I didn’t think it was Trump. I didn’t think it was Biden. My brain couldn’t make the connection.”

Upon learning from his mother that Biden was president, Vargas-Andrews said he “leaned back and I was like, ‘Oh, my, oh my god.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, my f–king God.’ That’s what I said. And the Secret Service dude was just, like, beet red and, like, trying not to laugh.” 

“Two minutes later, he walks in with Jill Biden and their little entourage of people and, like, a photographer,” he said.

“Right away, I remember him coming up to me trying to shake my hand, shake my right hand, and I look at him, and I’m like, ‘I don’t have an arm.’ My left arm is in this big a– cast with this giant orange f–king foam block around it. I’m completely immobile. All I can do is move my head.”

Vargas-Andrews recalled Biden saying, “Oh,” when he realized he wouldn’t be able to shake his hand, and then stood up before attempting a different approach. 

“And then [Biden], like, goes over to reach for my fingers because about an inch of my fingers are showing and just like grabbed my fingers. Doesn’t say, doesn’t greet me or anything. Just, that’s what happened. Just grabbed my fingers. And I was like, ‘OK, that’s weird,’” Vargas-Andrews said. 

The Marine says the president then “almost immediately” started talking about his late son Beau Biden, who served in Iraq as a member of the Delaware Army National Guard, but didn’t acknowledge the devastating Kabul bombing, enraging the serviceman’s mother.

“Doesn’t say anything about what happened, just starts talking about how their son served in the military,” Vargas-Andrews said.

“And my mom is just, like, she’s furious at this point. And they’re, like, taking pictures and stuff. … My mom said that she’s, like, ‘I don’t care. I don’t care what you guys do.’ She’s, like, ‘You better take care of him for the rest of his life.’”

Vargas-Andrews said Biden then leaned over him and inches from his face muttered, “What do you want?” 

“I said, ‘What do you want?’ I said, ‘What?’ He said, ‘What do you want?’ I’m so confused. Man. I just got blown up. Just f–king saw my friends die next to me. Like, I just want to be myself,” the maimed Marine remembered.  

“And he’s like, ‘Huh?’ And my mom’s furious and she’s, like, ‘He just wants to be himself. He just wants to be him. He said he just wants to be me.’ And he goes, ‘Oh, OK.’ And they just continue to talk about everything but what just happened. And then they just ushered him out of the room. He didn’t know what to say,” Vargas-Andrews said of the strange interaction. 

Vargas-Andrews was one of the roughly 5,800 troops Biden sent to help evacuate Kabul during the final weeks of the conflict.

In March, he described the “surreal” horror he and other US service members saw during the evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport while testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

“Some Afghans turned away from [the airport] tried to kill themselves on the razor wire in front of us that we used as a deterrent,” Vargas-Andrews told lawmakers.

“They thought this was merciful compared to the Taliban torture that they faced.”

“Nothing prepared us for the ground experience we were about to encounter,” he said of the chaotic evacuation efforts after thousands of people descended upon the airport’s main gate.

While the US and coalition forces evacuated nearly 130,000 people during the weeks-long mission, hundreds more Americans and thousands of their Afghan allies were left behind.

“Countless Afghans were murdered by the Taliban 155 yards in front of our position, day and night, with only shipping containers between us and the Taliban,” Vargas-Andrews said.

“We communicated the atrocities to our chain of command and intel assets but nothing came [of it.]”