Donald Trump has once again taken aim at his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, during a speech at the Detroit Economic Club in Michigan on Tuesday.
The president, 79, mocked Biden, who has Stage 4 cancer, by attempting to impersonate what Trump claimed Biden sounded like before delivering a speech.
"Remember the speeches Joe [Biden] would make? First of all, they'd last a matter of seconds, you know,” Trump said, before adopting a raspy voice to imitate Biden, saying, “Thank you very much."
Highlights
- Trump mocked Biden’s speech style with a raspy voice and coughing impersonation during a Detroit Economic Club speech.
- Trump claimed Biden’s speeches are very short and referenced a ‘bad speech’ where Biden appeared ‘high as a kite.’
- Trump labeled Biden the “worst president in history” during a recent New York Times interview.
Donald Trump once again took aim at Joe Biden
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His comment came as he bragged that 80% of the time he does not use a teleprompter, in a taunt to Biden, telling the crowd, "Isn't it nice to have a president that can go off teleprompter, don't you think?"
"You ever noticed Joe would always cough before a speech?" Trump continued, referring to State of the Union addresses delivered by Biden.
Over the next several seconds, Trump dramatically cleared his throat, contorted his face to make odd expressions, and moved his head around as part of the impersonation.
“Ladies and gentleman,” he said, in the same voice he had previously used to mimic Biden.
Finishing his impersonation, Trump went on to claim that Biden’s speeches had historically been “very short.”
He added, "Although the one time they had him spruced up pretty good.
"Remember he was high as a kite? He was floating. He was up there way up. He didn't. That was a bad speech. But uh, hey, he got through it, you know. He got through it. If you call it getting through it."
It is not the first time Trump has mocked Biden, and it likely will not be the last, with the president continually bringing up his predecessor in speeches and media interviews.
In a recent sit down with The New York Times, Trump “repeatedly” mentioned Biden, branding him as the “worst president in history.”
“I think Joe Biden is the worst thing that ever happened to old people,” Trump said during the interview.
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The comments came after Trump made a drastic change to Biden’s official White House portrait when the new Presidential Walk of Fame was unveiled in September.
While all other presidents had their official photos framed and hanging on the wall, Biden’s framed photo was replaced with a portrait of an autopen machine.
Trump has made several claims over Biden’s alleged use of the autopen, including that presidential aides were using it to hide his “cognitive decline.”
Then, in December, the White House made further changes to Biden’s designated portrait when they included lengthy descriptions of each former president under their frames, largely based on Trump’s feelings.
Trump previously claimed Biden's cancer diagnosis was covered up
The plague beneath Biden’s photo read, “Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American history.”
It further claimed that he took office “as a result of the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States.”
The long-winded account took aim at various Biden policies and repeated debunked claims, such as the 2020 election being rigged and that immigrants “poured into” the U.S. from foreign prisons and mental institutions.
“Nicknamed ‘Sleepy’ and ‘Crooked,’ Joe Biden was dominated by his Radical Left Handlers,” the plaque stated. “They and their allies in the Fake News Media attempted to cover up his severe mental decline, and his unprecedented use of the Autopen.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that Trump had written many of the plaques himself, as a “student of history.”
As well as taking aim at Biden’s governance, Trump has previously suggested that his cancer diagnosis was covered up.
While Trump released a statement wishing him a fast and successful recovery, he told reporters that someone was not telling the truth regarding the diagnosis.
“It takes a long time to get to that situation, I think that to get to stage 9, if you take a look, it’s the same doctor that said that Joe was cognitively fine and there was nothing wrong with him,” Trump said.
“If that’s the same doctor who said there was nothing wrong there, that’s been proven to be a sad situation.”
“There are things going on that the public wasn’t informed of,” Trump added.