Donald Trump has taken a swipe at President Joe Biden for being “confused” and walking into walls after making another embarrassing blunder at a Veterans Day service.
The 77-year-old held a campaign rally in Claremont, New Hampshire on Saturday afternoon, just days after missing the third debate of the 2024 Republican presidential primary.
“We have a man in the White House who can’t put two sentences together and who couldn’t find his way off that stage,” former President Trump told the packed crowd.
His comments came hours after Biden, 80, experienced an embarrassing moment of confusion as he stumbled at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
It was revealed that Trump would expand his first-term immigration crackdown to include sweeping raids on people being held in large camps awaiting deportation if he is re-elected in 2024.
Donald Trump has taken a swipe at President Joe Biden for being “confused” and walking into walls after making another embarrassing blunder at a Veterans Day service
After the ceremonial wreath-laying ceremony, Biden, 80, appeared to need direction from a military officer as he took steps in the wrong direction
Trump used the campaign event to mock his political rival Biden, whom he constantly referred to as “crooked.”
“He would be confused because I think my audience behind me is bigger than my audience in front of me,” he told the audience.
“He would say, what should I do, where am I? What a strange place to speak, I’m in the middle of a room.”
“Did you ever see the end of his speech? He has no idea how to get out of there. There are stairs, jump from the front, do anything but run into a wall.
“He hits walls.” But that’s the guy we’re negotiating with Putin and Chinese President Xi. This is the one responsible for nuclear energy.”
This came after Biden took several steps in the wrong direction following the wreath-laying ceremony, requiring stage directions from an Arlington honor guard before being pointed to his place next to Vice President Kamala Harris.
Biden has raised concerns about his age during his presidency. In September, he appeared to have lost his way as he left the stage after his remarks at the Global Fund Conference.
The president began to walk off the stage before stopping abruptly and looking around with a confused expression on his face.
Earlier this month, he tripped against a pole and failed to shake hands with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after a UN event.
He has also stumbled frequently, including while exiting Air Force One, and fell to the ground after tripping on a sandbag at a Coast Guard Academy graduation ceremony this spring.
But Trump had his own moment of confusion when he incorrectly said Barack Obama was president and not Biden.
Trump, 77, held a campaign rally in Claremont, New Hampshire, on Saturday afternoon, just days after skipping the third GOP presidential debate of 2024
Biden, 80, experienced an embarrassing moment of confusion when he stumbled at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
“Hungarian leader Viktor Orban, who is very powerful inside and outside his country, was interviewed two weeks ago and asked, what would President Obama advise?”
“The whole world seems to be exploding and imploding.” He said: “It’s simple, he should resign immediately and replace him with President Trump, who has kept the world safe.”
Trump promised the crowd at the rally that he would win the New Hampshire primary for the third straight time.
“We will destroy corrupt Joe Biden.” He is a corrupt man. “Next November we will make America great again,” he said. “We have no choice, we have to.”
He also boasted of his support and took a swipe at Republican rival Ron DeSantis.
“We got a lot of support in New Hampshire, almost everyone supports us,” Trump said.
“Now they’re coming and the money is flowing and all these donors said, maybe we’ll support someone else with our money.”
“All of a sudden they call and say, “President, President, hello.”
“I said, “I thought you were going to be deSanctimonious,” they say, “No way sir, I’ll give you what you want.”
Trump’s immigration plans if he were re-elected were first reported in The New York Times on Saturday and are based on interviews with several advisers, including Stephen Miller, who oversaw Trump’s immigration policy in his first term.
The report described Trump’s plans as “an attack on immigration on a scale unprecedented in modern American history” and said they aimed to deport millions of people every year, including those who have been in the United States for decades States have settled.
Trump did not mention the idea of setting up large camps to detain people in his campaign speech Saturday in Claremont.
The Biden-Harris campaign called Trump’s immigration plans in a statement “extreme, racist and cruel policies” designed to “incite fear and divide us by betting on a frightened nation to win this election.”
According to the newspaper, Trump would, among other things, revive his entry ban for people from certain Muslim-majority countries.
He would revive other hardline policies, including a rejection of COVID-19-era asylum claims, although this time the rejections would be based on claims that migrants carry other infectious diseases, it said.
Trump is trying to speed up deportations by massively expanding a form of deportation that does not require due process hearings.
Trump used the campaign event to mock his political rival Biden, whom he constantly referred to as “crooked.”
It was revealed that Trump would expand his first-term immigration crackdown to include sweeping raids on people being held in large camps awaiting deportation if he is re-elected in 2024
To help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement carry out sweeping crackdowns on undocumented immigrants, Trump would reappoint federal agents and deputize local police and National Guard troops volunteered by Republican-led states, the report said.
He would ease the burden on ICE detention centers by building massive camps to hold detainees while their cases are processed while they await deportation.
To fund the massive operation if Congress refused, Trump would redirect Pentagon funds, as he did with his border wall in his first term, the Times said.
“We will stop the invasion of our southern border and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” Trump said Saturday.
His campaign did not respond to a request for comment and the White House declined to comment.