President Joe Biden took a quick swipe at former President Donald Trump as he addressed the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee on Wednesday.
Biden compared his economic record to Trump's as he continued to try to cast “Bidenomics” as effective despite his weak poll numbers and Americans' generally poor sentiment about the economy.
He referred to his “predecessor” and then slapped the 45th president for his comments, which were criticized as racist and xenophobic.
“The guy who these days thinks we’re polluting the blood of Americans,” Biden said.
Trump was widely condemned for comments he made in New Hampshire over the weekend, telling a campaign rally that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”
President Joe Biden took a subtle dig at former President Donald Trump as he addressed the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee on Wednesday
The rhetoric led to comparisons to Adolf Hitler, which Trump bristled at during a campaign rally in Iowa on Tuesday night. His comments were strongly condemned by the White House and criticized by fellow Republicans.
Trump remarked to a crowd at Waterloo that he had “never read Mein Kampf.”
He then ratcheted up his anti-immigrant rhetoric.
“Yesterday we had the highest daily record of illegal border crossings.” Registered so far – 12,600 – in one day. We have no idea who any of them are. “They come from Africa, they come from Asia, they come from South America, but not just South America — from all over the world,” Trump said.
“They are dropping them at the border and pouring into our country and there is no one there to control them,” he continued.
Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday night in Iowa that he has never read “Mein Kampf” after his anti-immigrant rhetoric was compared to that of Adolf Hitler
Trump said at a rally in New Hampshire on Saturday that migrants from “all over the world” are “poisoning the blood of our country” – a phrase similar to Hitler
An interview with former President Donald Trump's late first wife in which she claims he owned a book of Adolf Hitler's speeches and kept it at his bedside resurfaces after Trump said migrants were “the blood of our country.” poison”.
The ex-president called the US Border Patrol “unbelievable” but said they were being told not to do their job.
“It’s crazy what’s going on,” he continued. “They are ruining our country.” And it’s true – they are destroying the blood of our country.”
“They didn’t like it when I said that.” And I never read Mein Kampf. They said, 'Ohhh, Hitler said that,' in a whole different way,” Trump said.
He warned that immigrants could bring “diseases” and reiterated that they are “destroying the fabric of our country.”
Biden's 2024 re-election campaign had already condemned Trump's comments and linked them to Hitler.
In a statement released Saturday evening, Biden campaign spokesman Ammar Moussa noted that during the former president's rally in Durham, New Hampshire, Trump “channeled his role models by parroting Adolf Hitler, praising Kim Jong Un, and Vladimir Putin quoted.”
Trump's comments that he “never read” Mein Kampf have resurfaced with comments from his late first wife Ivana Trump, who claimed that Trump owned a book of Hitler's speeches that he kept in a closet next to his bed.
The quote comes from a 1990 interview with Vanity Fair. A reporter asked Trump about it, and the then-real estate baron said his friend had given him a copy of the famous book. “I gave him a book about Hitler. But it was My New Order, Hitler's speeches, not Mein Kampf,” said friend Marty Davis.