US President Joe Biden claims he is still getting used to the White House. He spoke frankly about what it was like to live in the White House, describing his new residence as a “gilded cage” in which he sometimes felt self-conscious, The Independent reported.

“I get up in the morning, look at Jill and say, ‘where are we?’” he joked, adding that even though he has been president for only four weeks, things are moving so fast that it feels like four years.

Most recently, he lived in a large house in the suburbs of Wilmington, Delaware. The White House has a spacious lawn with views to the Washington and Lincoln monuments but is otherwise surrounded by a tall fence and a small army of guards.

The former vice president said he has visited the Oval Office 100 or more times over the years but has never been to residential areas of the White House. 

“I don’t know about you all, but I was raised in a way that you didn’t look for anybody to wait on you,” he said. “And it’s where I find myself extremely self-conscious for wonderful people who work in the White House. But someone standing there and hands me my suit coat.”