President Biden said he stayed up until at least 2 a.m. Friday to watch Fox News dissect the State of the Union address to Congress, and then watched vile protest signs and children attack Biden during his trip. He said he was disappointed to see him making such obscene gestures.
“Last night, after I got home, around 2 a.m., I was watching it on TV,” Biden said at a campaign rally in the Philadelphia area. This was his first public address since his annual appearance in Congress.
“I turned on the TV and a commentator on Fox News said, ‘You know, Biden is going from trickle-down economics to building from the middle down.’ That’s going to destroy America.” .”
“Doom America? We currently have the strongest economy in the world,” he added.
The 81-year-old president, who is seeking re-election for a second term against Republican candidate Donald Trump in November, did not identify the Fox personality who made the remarks.
Mr. Biden also accused Mr. Trump’s supporters of giving him rude greetings as Mr. Trump, 77, travels around the country — telling reporters he may refuse to discuss the former president. Right after I spoke.
“For those of you over 40, did you ever think we’d be in a situation where we’re talking to each other like we are these days?” Biden said, “When you’re driving down the street and you write ‘F-You, “Where is there a banner with President Trump hanging out and a 6-year-old kid holding up his middle finger?”
“It demeans who we are. That’s not America,” he lamented.
The president, notorious for his gaffes, made it through most of his State of the Union address without stumbling. Except for mispronouncing the first name of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Georgia nursing student who was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant. On Friday, the immigrant appeared to be struggling with the ever-present teleprompter.
At one point, Biden said the 2021 Capitol riot occurred on “July 6,” a verbal error he had previously made but quickly corrected to say it was January.
At another point, Biden said: [sic] “He increased the national debt more than any president in office in history” — he meant Trump when the context made it clear.
The president ended his speech with the off-the-cuff remark that he had to ask First Lady Jill Biden to marry him five times. His last attempt was successful, he said, after “I was in South Africa to meet Nelson Mandela.” A recollection that has been fact-checked many times and labeled false.
