The MSNBC host said President Biden is playing “chess” while former President Trump is playing “hungry, hungry hippopotamus.”
MSNBC host Alicia Menendez, along with co-hosts Michael Steele and Symone Sanders-Townsend, praised Biden for meeting with world leaders last week following the G7 summit in Italy. Lincoln Project co-founder Reed Galen and Politico’s Eugene Daniels also appeared on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” Saturday and suggested the White House wants to demonstrate Biden’s leadership on a global scale.
“This is remarkable, given that the president is playing chess while the former president is, at best, playing with a hungry hippopotamus,” Menendez said of Biden’s global tour.
Sanders-Townsend then suggested Trump was playing Uno, saying someone kept telling him to “draw four,” her comments drawing laughter from the other hosts and guests.
“We’ve been talking about the split screen thing happening. Again, to the people who are saying, ‘Joe Biden is just too old,’ I don’t think so. I don’t know what you guys think, but he’s coming back to the US from France, he’s attending the G7 Italy meeting, and now, as we speak, he’s on his way to LA for another event,” she said.
“I don’t know where Donald Trump was. Yes, yes. I know where he was. He was onstage whining about machines. Split screen here is nothing to be taken lightly,” Sanders-Townsend added.
Biden visited Normandy, France, to mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings, and then traveled to Italy to attend the G7 summit just days after returning to the U.S. He then attended a star-studded gala in Los Angeles on Saturday night that raised more than $30 million for his campaign, according to the Associated Press.
The Hill has reached out to the Biden and Trump campaigns for comment.
