President Joe Biden fired back at former President Donald Trump after Trump mocked him for referring to Vice President Kamala Harris as "Vice President Trump" during his highly anticipated press conference closing out the NATO summit.
Biden has faced a volley of questions about his mental acuity and fitness for office since his oft-criticized performance during last's month presidential debate.
Biden has said he won't step aside, stressing the importance of defeating Trump in November. Many Democrats, including progressives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York) and Ilhan Omar (Minnesota), have stood by him as the party's presumptive nominee.
Biden caught Trump's attention during the press conference when he made the following awkward gaffe:
"I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president if I think she's not qualified to be president."
With that, Trump took to Truth Social and published the following message:
"“Crooked Joe begins his ‘Big Boy’ Press Conference with, ‘I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, though I think she was not qualified to be president. Great job, Joe!"
You can see Trump's post below.
But Biden quickly responded with the following message referencing Trump's recent conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records:
"By the way, yes I know the difference. One's a prosecutor, and the other's a felon."
You can see Biden's post below.
Many appreciated the President's response and had a few Trump criticisms of their own.
Biden's one-hour press conference provided another opportunity for him to assert his determination to stay in the presidential race.
During the last question of the press conference, a reporter brought up Biden’s error and asked for his response, noting Trump had mocked him for it. Smiling to himself, Biden simply said, "Listen to him," before walking off stage.
Corbin Borlies, a media reporter for The Daily Beast, noted that Biden chose to speak to "a pre-selected list of journalists who inquired about both his competency as a candidate and the foreign policy issues the summit was ostensibly about."
Jane Rosenberg
Jane Rosenberg
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