Biden Shades Trump in Seth Meyers Interview
The President, the White House, and his campaign have highlighted Trump’s right-wing views
President Joe Biden has defended his mental fitness, pointing out that his potential Republican challenger Donald Trump also makes mistakes.
During an appearance on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers that aired early Tuesday, the president referred to reports that Trump called his wife by a different name. It is unclear whether Trump was calling his wife or a former aide in the reported episode. Biden said what really matters is that the former president’s ideas are outdated.
Biden said, “You have to take a look at the other guy. He’s about the same age as me, but he can’t remember his wife’s name, number one. Number two, it’s about how old your ideas are “
Biden, 81, has often tried to deflect questions about his age and mental acuity with humor. Yet he has struggled to allay Americans’ fears that he is unfit to serve four more years in the White House.
According to an NBC News poll conducted in January, three-quarters of voters, including half of Democrats, say they are concerned about Biden’s age. Less than half the people have similar concerns about 77-year-old Trump.
Those concerns were at the forefront of the 2024 campaign earlier this month, when a Justice Department report on Biden’s handling of classified material referred to him as a “well-intentioned elderly man with a failing memory.” Biden further complicated the issue when he confused world leaders during a news conference reacting to the report.
Biden’s campaign is betting that voters will focus on age-related concerns when they compare the president to Trump, who faces 91 criminal charges and is already facing trial in New York courts for fraud, sexual harassment and defamation. Have been found responsible for.
The President, the White House, and his campaign have highlighted Trump’s right-wing views and offensive statements.
“This is a guy who wants to take us back. He wants to take us back to Roe v. Wade. He wants to take us back to a whole range of issues from 50, 60 years ago – those have been solid American positions. ,” Biden said.
Trump recently claimed that his legal problems help him with black voters, in comments in which he compared his legal threat to a history of anti-black bias in the criminal-justice system.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned those comments on Monday, calling them “disgusting and divisive,” adding that “the comparison to the long, painful history of abuse and discrimination suffered by Black Americans is completely unfounded.” To do it with anything different is impure.” Accomplishment of objectives.”
Trump has also compared himself to late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. However, the former president refused to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin responsible for Navalny’s death. He also suggested he would let Russia attack NATO allies that have not met defense spending targets and mocked the military service of GOP rival Nikki Haley’s husband.
Biden also criticized Trump for calling “insurrectionists” arrested for their involvement in the US Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, as “patriots” and praising dictators.
“He thinks he can change the Constitution and ignore parts of the Constitution. Here’s a guy who talks about retribution,” Biden said.
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