Trump reminds Biden who’s running after ex-veep confused him with ‘George’
President Trump reminded Joe Biden whom he’s running against, mocking the former veep for appearing to confuse him with either former President George W. Bush or his dad, President George H.W. Bush, at a celeb-studded virtual fundraiser Sunday night.
“Joe Biden called me George yesterday. Couldn’t remember my name. Got some help from the anchor to get him through the interview. The Fake News Cartel is working overtime to cover it up!,” Trump said Monday on Twitter.
Later, at a campaign rally in Allentown, Pa., Trump brought up the Biden blunder again.
“Did you see yesterday when he called me George? No, I don’t know if I like George. Not George. What a mess. What a mess. No, he called me George. I don’t know if I should be insulted or happy about it. Sort of insulted. That’s the first time that’s happened to me in a long time,” the president said.
Biden, speaking during an “I Will Vote” concert on Sunday, mixed up the two presidents.
“The character of the country, in my view, is literally on the ballot,” Biden said. “Four more years of George, um, George, gonna find ourselves in a position where if Trump gets elected, we’re gonna be in a different world.”
Bush was finishing his second term in office when Barack Obama and Biden ran in 2008. His father was president from 1989-1993.
Jill Biden appears to twice say something to her husband after the “George” flubs, with some news outlets and commenters on social media, speculating she may have been saying “Trump” to prod her husband.
The misstep once again raised concerns about Biden’s mental capacity in the stretch run to Nov. 3’s Election Day
Biden has been known to mangle facts, numbers and locations throughout his time campaigning.
He once said he had met with students who survived the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., when he was vice president but that shooting happened in February 2018.
During a town hall earlier this month he flubbed the number of Americans who died from the coronavirus as “210 million” before correcting himself.
In June, he wrongly claimed that 120 million people died of the coronavirus.
Biden also mixed up Iran and Iraq during a speech in Tampa, Fla., in September.
“U.S. troops died in Iran and Afghanistan, 6,000, as of today, 923,” Biden said. “Not roughly 6,900 — 923, because every one of these fallen angels left behind a family, left behind a community. There is an empty seat at that table now.”