Former President Donald Trump once again confused President Joe Biden with former President Barack Obama at a Virginia rally Saturday night.
“Putin has so little respect for Obama that he starts throwing the word nuclear around. You heard that. Nuclear. He’s starting to talk about nuclear weapons today,” Trump chided during the rally.
When the 77-year-old mentioned his predecessor, rallygoers immediately fell silent.
President Trump’s remarks were a reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin. eerily suggestive In his State of the Union address last week, he said the escalation in war-torn Ukraine “raises the real threat of nuclear conflict.”
Mr. Trump has repeatedly confused Mr. Biden and Mr. Obama on the campaign stump, which he insists is intentional. Last year, he mixed up his second-term ticket buddies at least seven times. According to Forbes magazine.
“Whenever I sarcastically put Obama’s name in place of Biden’s, I’m implying that others may actually have outsized influence over how this country is run. Yes,” President Trump wrote. real social posts last year.
Mr. Biden’s allies have seized on Mr. Trump’s conflation of the two, suggesting that the 45th president suffers from some kind of cognitive deficit as the sitting president sidesteps his own concerns with age. Trying to suggest that he is suffering.
“Mr. Trump once again forgets who is the current president and says he is trying to run against ‘Obama,'” the X Biden-Harris campaign account wrote.
Later in his wide-ranging speech, President Trump explained why he confused his biggest Republican opponent, Nikki Haley, with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
“We intentionally mix up names like Birdbrain. You know who Birdbrain is, Nicky and Nancy Pelosi,” he said.
“I put these in because they’re interchangeable in my head. I shouldn’t say this about semi-Republicans, but I think Ms. Pelosi is probably a little more sensible.”
Trump has recently been confusing Obama with Hillary Clinton. claim the end The year he defeated the former in the 2016 election.
President Trump has repeatedly spoken out about how he “passed” the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which he took while in the White House.
Both Biden and Trump have been dogged by questions about their ages as they appear to be bracing for a rematch of their 2020 showdown.
An astonishing 86% of American adults believe that at 81 years old, Biden is too old to serve another term. ABC News/Ipsos poll It was completed last month. A smaller number, 62%, thought Trump was also too old.
Biden is the oldest sitting US president and would be 86 years old by the end of his hypothetical second term. If Trump wins in November and completes his term, he will become the oldest president, surpassing Biden by several months.
Virginia is one of more than a dozen states to hold contests for the Republican presidential nomination this week on Super Tuesday, and is expected to receive 48 delegates.
Trump has defeated his opponents in every Republican race he has contested, is the overwhelming favorite, and is already starting to shift into general election mode.
