Former President Donald Trump mocked President Joe Biden for using the “children’s stairs” to board Air Force One – while also teasing the president with photos showing him at a rally in New Hampshire sleeping on the beach.
During a visit to the Granite State, the 77-year-old Trump finally made his candidacy official – then he spoke to his supporters in Derry for about 100 minutes and cheerfully cut off the hand of his embattled successor.
Specifically, the Republican front-runner addressed the commander in chief’s 80-year-old series of tripping accidents and the fact that he used a shorter staircase to get on and off Air Force One.
“Crooked Joe can’t even walk up the children’s stairs on Air Force One,” Trump said with a laugh, hours after visiting the New Hampshire Statehouse in Concord to get his name added to the 2024 Republican ballot.
Former President Donald Trump mocked President Joe Biden for using the “children’s stairs” to board Air Force One during a rally Monday afternoon in New Hampshire and shared photos showing him napping on the beach
President Joe Biden boards Air Force One via the shorter staircase in July. After several tripping accidents, he got on and off the presidential plane using these stairs
Trump took notice, telling his crowd on Monday that they would probably like to see someone come off Air Force One and “beautifully and haughtily … wave to everyone.”
“This guy goes to the little stairs.” We call them the children’s stairs. And now he’s made it a common practice because he can’t make it all the way up or down,” Trump said. “It’s harder for him to make amends. “It’s usually easier,” remarked the 77-year-old former president.
Axios reported in September that Biden was working with a physical therapist and wearing more sneakers to avoid tripping.
Earlier Monday, Trump shared an Instagram post on Truth Social from rapper 50 Cent, who posted a story previewing the Bidens-Rehoboth trip with the comment: “Hey Joe, do that shit, us “In trouble, man.”
The photo used in the story shows the president sleeping on the beach in August with first lady Jill Biden reading a book.
The president and first lady returned to the White House from Rehoboth in the hours before Trump’s campaign rally, making Biden’s beach activities worthwhile fodder for the ex-president.
“You know he goes to the beach a lot, right?” Trump said in part of his speech. “If he had gone to the beach and done nothing, we would have the best border,” claimed the ex-president.
Trump shared a post from rapper 50 Cent that used his image from August and then mocked President Joe Biden for sleeping on the beach while “we may have a third world war going on.” The Bidens visited Rehoboth over the weekend, but the president didn’t sleep on the beach
Trump joked that the same guy who came up with the red stage set for Biden’s anti-MAGA speech last September probably “thinks he looks good on the beach.” Biden warned against Trump and the MAGA Republicans in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia
Trump is photographed arriving in New Hampshire on Monday and disembarking on his so-called “Trump Force One.” The former president traveled to Concord to formally register as a candidate in the 2024 New Hampshire Republican primary before holding a rally in Derry
The ex-president also brought up Biden’s speech last September, in which the president spoke in front of the red-lit Independence Hall in Philadelphia and warned the country about Trump and his MAGA Republicans.
“I saw Biden there, remember the one with the red background?” “Looked like the devil,” Trump recalled. “The same set designer doing the same set of him on the beach,” the ex-president joked.
“Someone thinks they look good on the beach,” Trump continued. “I do not believe that.”
“You know these chairs are designed for a child to be able to lift,” the former president added.
Despite Trump’s many trips to Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster to golf during his four years in office, the former president called Biden’s beach trip a dereliction of duty.
“You see this guy walking around.” And then he sleeps on the beach all day. And we may have World War III underway,” Trump said. ‘It’s terrible. It’s terrible to see, it’s terrible to see.’
“But he gave that speech against that terrible red backdrop, and that backdrop could have been worse than the beach,” Trump said, returning to last year’s speech. “And he talks about MAGA, MAGA, MAGA,” Trump said.
Biden was not photographed napping on the beach during his trip to Rehoboth this weekend.
In the picture he was seen walking along the beach with his wife, going to church and going to a restaurant.