Biden Tries New Tactic To Attack Trump, Criticizing His Age: ‘He Can’t Remember His Wife’s Name’

OAN’s Brooke Mallory
4:25 PM – Tuesday, February 27, 2024

In a bid to turn the tables on his political opponent, President Joe Biden on Monday launched a new line of attack against his former and most likely future presidential nominee, Donald Trump, by highlighting Trump’s age. It was a deliberate experiment.

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Mr Biden, 81, responded to critics who say his advanced age will put him at a disadvantage in the next election campaign. NBC Host Seth Meyers hinted at the 77-year-old president, saying, “You need to look at your opponent.”

“He’s about my age, but he didn’t call my wife’s name,” Biden said, referring to former President Donald Trump’s claims that he called his wife “Mercedes” at a CPAC event over the weekend. I can’t remember,” he said.

However, the Trump campaign insisted to reporters that Trump was referring to Mercedes Schlapp. Schlapp is a political commentator and wife of CPAC organizing committee chair and former White House staffer Matt Schlapp, whom she mentioned for the second time in her subsequent speech.

“This is the height of fake news,” Mrs. Schlapp said, slamming left-wing news outlets that claimed President Trump had called his wife by the wrong name.

Seth Meyers’ “Late Night” interview NBC, Biden said voters need to consider not just a candidate’s age, but also “how old (a candidate’s) ideas are.”

“Look, I mean, this is the guy who’s going to take us back,” Biden said of Trump. “He’s trying to take us back to Roe v. Wade. He’s trying to take us back to all the issues that have held America strong for 50, 60 years,” Biden said.

Meyers’ prerecorded interview came shortly after the White House announced that Biden would visit the southern border on Thursday. Meanwhile, President Trump is also scheduled to visit Eagle Pass, Texas, the epicenter of recent conflicts between the federal and state governments over illegal border crossings.

Biden’s comments about the age of Republican candidates could signal a major shift in the president’s messaging approach, days after Trump won the South Carolina Republican primary and furthered his party’s bid for the presidential nomination. There is sex. President Trump has previously said that Biden’s age is not the main reason he should not be re-elected, but rather that Biden is crooked, mentally incompetent and may be suffering from early-onset dementia. said.

Moreover, while President Trump knows and professes to know many intelligent and resourceful people who are still going strong well into their 80s and 90s, Biden is not one of them.

While in Texas, Biden will meet with local elected officials, law enforcement and Border Patrol agents to “discuss the urgent need to pass the Senate’s bipartisan border security agreement,” according to a White House advisory. It is said that

On Tuesday, Biden will also hold a high-stakes meeting with key congressional leaders at the White House to “discuss the border, prevent a government shutdown and approve additional funding for Ukraine,” a source said. told reporters.

During his conversation with Meyers, Biden regularly criticized Trump, bringing up the former president minutes after Meyers asked him about infrastructure.

“The last guy had … infrastructure week … every week,” Biden said. “But…I actually did it.”

“I mean, what are we talking about here? What in the name of God? The idea that the president of the United States is inviting Vladimir Putin to invade Western countries? That’s weird, totally weird. And that’s completely against our interests,” Biden continued.