Politics
Published
March 8, 2024, 6:53 p.m. ET
President Biden stated Friday that he had stayed up till no less than 2 a.m. watching Fox News evaluation of his State of the Union speech to Congress — earlier than saying he was disillusioned seeing vulgar protest indicators and kids making obscene gestures at him when he travels.
“I was watching on television last night, about two in the morning, after we got back to the house,” Biden stated at a Philadelphia-area marketing campaign rally, his first public deal with since his annual congressional look.
“I had the TV on and there was a Fox News commentator saying, ‘You know, Biden is changing from trickle-down economics to build from the middle out and the bottom up. It is going to ruin America.’
“Ruin America? We have the strongest economy in the world right now,” he added.
The 81-year-old president, who’s in search of a second time period in November in opposition to presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, didn’t determine the Fox persona who he stated made the remarks.
Biden additionally slammed supporters of Trump, 77, for rudely greeting him when he travels the nation — moments after telling reporters he might refuse to debate the previous president.
“Did you ever think — those of you who are over 40 — did you ever think we’d be in a situation where we talk to each other like the way we talk these days?” Biden requested, “where you ride down the street and there’s a Trump banner with a ‘F— You’ on it and a 6-year-old kid putting up his middle finger?”
“It demeans who we are. That’s not America,” he lamented.
The notoriously gaffe-prone president, who made it by way of most of his State of the Union speech with out stumbles — except for mispronouncing the primary identify of Laken Riley, the 22-year-old Georgia nursing pupil who was murdered allegedly by an unlawful immigrant — appeared to wrestle Friday together with his ever-present teleprompter.
Biden stated at one level that the 2021 Capitol riot occurred on “July the sixth” — a verbal error that he’s made earlier than — earlier than rapidly correcting himself to say January.
At one other level, Biden stated “we [sic] added more to the national debt than any president in his term in all of history” — when the context made clear he meant to say “he” in reference to Trump.
The president concluded his speech with a casual comment about how he needed to ask first woman Jill Biden 5 instances to marry him — saying the profitable ultimate try got here after “I was down in South Africa trying to see Nelson Mandela,” a memory that has drawn repeated truth checks and been labeled unfaithful.
