Donald Trump twisted the knife into Joe Biden after his disastrous debate performance by celebrating a ‘big victory’ and suggesting the U.S. can’t survive four more years of his presidency if he can’t make it through 90 minutes on stage.
The former president insisted that the 81-year-old is staying in the race despite Democratic Party calls for him to be replaced and a CNN primetime appearance where he ‘didn’t know what the hell he was doing’.
The 77-year-old took the rally stage in Virginia after the state’s Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin, who was once tipped to be a challenger for the GOP presidential nomination.
Trump tore into Biden for his poor performance after a week of rest and then went spoke about migrants, global warming electric cars, Al Capone, Hannibal Lecter, whales, Michelle Obama.
The audience of MAGA faithful then cheered for their favorite nicknames for Biden, including ‘sleepy’ and ‘crooked’.
‘Did anyone last night watch a thing called the debate? Man, that was a big one,’ he told a fired-up crowd in the crucial swing state.
Donald Trump twisted the knife into Joe Biden after his disastrous debate performance by celebrating a ‘big victory’ and suggesting the U.S. can’t survive four more years of his presidency if he can’t make it through 90 minutes
‘Biden spent the entire week at Camp David resting, working, studying—he studied so hard he didn’t know what the hell he was doing.’
‘He got the debate rules he wanted, he got the date he wanted, at the network he wanted with the [moderators] he wanted.
‘No amount of rest or rigging could defend his atrocious record’.
Trump added that the question is not if Biden can survive a 90-minute debate, but whether the country can survive another four years of him in the White House.
The 77-year-old presumptive Republican nominee then reeled off his greatest rally hits, and pointed out ‘beautiful women’ from North Carolina who had been to more than 170 of his rallies.
The former president insisted that the 81-year-old is staying in the race despite Democrat calls for him to be replaced
‘Did anyone last night watch a thing called the debate? Man, that was a big one,’ he told a fired-up crowd in the crucial swing state of Virginia .
Trump told the crowd: ‘Biden spent the entire week at Camp David resting, working, studying—he studied so hard he didn’t know what the hell he was doing’
He compared the former Governor of Virginia Ralph Northam to Michael Jackson because he was involved in a blackface scandal.
Trump also discussed potential Biden replacements, and hinted that Michelle Obama would be a good choice if she wasn’t polling so badly.
‘A vote for Joe Biden is a vote for failure, surrender, and disaster for our country. A vote for your all-time favorite president, Donald J. Trump, is a vote for stopping Joe Biden’s inflation and border invasion and for making America great again!
In a riff on global warming, he said it wasn’t an issue and wasn’t concerned it was hot.
‘I say that the thing that’s an existential threat is not global warming where the ocean will rise, maybe.
‘And it may go down but may rise 1/8 of an inch in the next 497 years which gives you a little bit more waterfront property if you’re lucky.’
Then Trump mocked Biden for his extended stretch of debate preparation at Camp David – a period that has some allies complaining he was ‘over-prepared’ and too reliant on his study sessions.
‘It was a rest and study period,’ he mocked, although he described it as a 10-day stretch instead of the actual seven.
Then he started a riff on the presidential retreat, which he made limited use of as president, preferring his own golf clubs.
‘I’m not a rustic person,’ Trump observed. ‘I started to love it,’ he said, calling it ‘very seductive.’
‘I’m not sure he has any idea what the history is,’ Trump mocked his rival. ‘He likes a log cabin,’ he said, and wants to lock himself in. ‘He wants to sleep,’ said Trump.
He also tore into his former White House chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly. Kelly provide corroboration for press reports that Trump called military members who served ‘suckers and losers,’ something Trump denied saying Thursday night.
He called Kelly, a retired Marine general, ‘the dumbest of them all.’
‘We used to call him a lost soul,’ Trump said.
Earlier on Friday, a defiant Biden insisted he can still win the election after his disastrous debate performance
His car crash showdown has sparked an unprecedented crisis and calls behind the scenes to pull the plug on his bid for a second term.
President Joe Biden doesn’t plan to drop out of the presidential race after Thursday night’s poor debate performance against former President Donald Trump
President Joe Biden insisted he can still win the election in his first campaign rally after his disastrous debate performance
Insiders described Biden’s debate showing as a ‘train wreck’ and ‘dumpster fire’ and some openly suggested he should step aside for another candidate.
Former key Barack Obama adviser David Axelrod said there was a ‘sense of shock’ in the party and there would be ‘discussions about whether he (Biden) should continue Meanwhile, former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said the state of panic had reached ‘DEFCON 1’.
Biden meandered through the 90-minute CNN spectacle, struggling to finish sentences and lost his train of thought multiple times in front of tens of millions of stunned TV viewers.
Trump added that the question is not if Biden can survive a 90-minute debate, but whether the country can survive another four years of him in the White House
The president used a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, to assuage the widespread concerns as some of his closest allies including Obama publicly stood behind him behind him despite admitting the performance was bad.
‘I know I’m not a young man. To state the obvious,’ Biden said alongside First Lady Jill while she wore a Christian Siriano dress covered in the word ‘vote.’
‘Folks, I don’t walk as easily as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to.’
‘But I know what I know – I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. And I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done,’ the president argued.
‘I give you my word as a Biden. I would not be running again if I didn’t believe with all my heart and soul that I could do this job,’ he said.
The president used the 20-minute speech in North Carolina to clean up many of the arguments he attempted to make on the debate stage against his Republican opponent.
‘I don’t know what you did last night but I spent 90 minutes on a stage debating a guy who has the morals of an alley cat,’ Biden said.
