Trump claims Biden ‘doesn’t know he’s alive’ and can’t put ‘two sentences together’ as he bashes the 81-year-old for his gaffes amid worries about his age
Donald Trump spent much of his Fox News appearance criticizing Biden’s cognitive state and claiming the president “doesn’t know he’s alive.”
The former president criticized Biden for failing to “string two sentences together,” just moments after Trump himself struggled to speak a coherent sentence.
During his speech Tuesday night, Trump rambled on in gossip with Ted Kennedy about who the smartest and dumbest people in the Senate were at the time.
Trump said he didn’t want to reveal who Kennedy said was the smartest because he “don’t like the guy at all.”
The former president claims that in this alleged conversation, which apparently took place at the Kennedy Compound in Palm Beach, Kennedy admitted to Trump that Joe Biden was “probably” the “dumbest” person in the Senate.
Donald Trump spent much of his Fox News appearance criticizing Biden’s cognitive state and claiming the president “doesn’t know he’s alive.”
Trump’s attacks on Biden were accompanied by other extraordinary claims made against Fox News host Sean Hannity at an Iowa town hall on Tuesday.
The former president criticized Biden for failing to “string two sentences together,” just moments after Trump himself struggled to speak a coherent sentence.
Trump continued his anecdote with a rant about Biden, saying:now I can see when he’s not in prime time for himself… I mean, years later he failed to become president when he was… as usual.”
The former president then faltered, but accidentally changed the subject to nuclear bombs: “Something is going wrong, and we can’t afford it because we have a problem today,” Trump said. “Nuclear weapons are the biggest problem in the world.”
“Take Hiroshima or Nagasaki, look, that was many, many decades ago, and multiply that by 500. That’s what a big bomb would be today,” Trump told the Fox News town hall audience.
“Whether it’s Israel or really big countries,” he stammered.
“Nuclear weapons are our biggest problem, and we have a man who can’t string two sentences together. We have a man who doesn’t know he’s alive,” Trump said.
Trump’s attacks on Biden were accompanied by other extraordinary claims made against Fox News host Sean Hannity at an Iowa town hall on Tuesday.
The former president refused to rule out the possibility of abusing his power to persecute his critics – saying he would not do so “except on the first day” – when he would be presented with multiple opportunities to abandon plans for revenge or a power grab.
Hannity questioned him directly about some of the most serious accusations made by his critics, including that he planned to “abuse power” or use the justice system to overthrow his political rivals, and pointing out that some want to call him a “dictator” “
“To be clear, do you have any plans, if the president is re-elected, to abuse power, break the law and use the government to persecute people,” Hannity asked him.
“You mean what they’re using right now?” Trump responded without directly answering the question.
– So in the history of our country? What happened to us again has never happened before. The charges were brought about nonsense about nothing,” Trump said, returning to the refrain that he was indicted more times (four) than notorious Chicago mobster Al Capone.
The former president said: “Nuclear weapons are the biggest problem we have, and we have a man who can’t string two sentences together. We have a man who doesn’t know he’s alive.”
The former president refused to rule out the possibility of abusing his power to persecute his critics, saying he would not do so “except on the first day,” when he is given multiple opportunities to abandon plans for revenge or a power grab.
After Trump moved on to other topics in the sit-down interview, Hannity returned to the topic after earlier showing the famous clip of Trump telling his supporters, “I am your nemesis.”
“Do you promise America tonight that you will never abuse power as retaliation?” Hannity asked the former president, who is leading President Joe Biden in a series of polls.
“Except for the first day,” Trump responded.
‘Meaning?’ Hannity asked him.
“I want to close the border and I want to drill, drill, drill.”
“This is not retaliation,” Hannity noted.
Trump then tried to make those present laugh.
“He says: you will not be a dictator. I said, “No, no, no—except the first day. We are closing the border. And we drill, drill, drill. After this I am no longer a dictator.”
The Biden-Harris account tweeted the clip, adding the line: “Trump: I’ll be a dictator on day one.”