After a would-be assassin tried to shoot Donald Trump in the head on Saturday, was anyone asking for Joe Biden to give multiple public addresses on the matter? That's what we got, though, with the president bumbling his way through three different appearances, with the latest being an Oval Office address.
Sitting in front of the camera on Sunday evening, Biden read from a teleprompter, often losing his train of thought and stumbling over his words.
Biden stumbles through his address to Americans after the attempted assassination of Trump:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 15, 2024
"Thankfully, former Trump is not seriously l-injured." pic.twitter.com/8OfdxqHklQ
BIDEN: “We resolve our differences at the battle box...” 🤔 pic.twitter.com/yPxApMdLNo
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) July 15, 2024
Did Biden almost just say "Make America Great Again"? pic.twitter.com/0ap0sAmF3w
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As to the meat of what he said, it was disgusting and tone-deaf. Instead of staying on topic and admitting that Democrats have gone too far with their heated rhetoric about Trump being a "threat to democracy," Biden brought up Gretchen Whitmer and January 6th in an attempt to deflect. Of note is that in both those instances, no perpetrator fired a weapon, clipping the ear of a former president and killing an innocent man. As "attacks on our democracy" go, what happened to Trump is not on the same level as an FBI-instigated plot to kidnap Whitmer that never got out of the planning stages.
Biden then decided to play the "adult in the room" by asking everyone to "lower the temperature."
Joe Biden says he wants to “lower the temperature” in our country: pic.twitter.com/sVDzvlf9fm
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) July 15, 2024
BREAKING: President Biden says 'when we disagree, we are not enemies, we are neighbors, we are friends, co-workers, citizens and, most importantly, we are fellow Americans'
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Two days before Trump was shot, Biden claimed the former president was a dictator. Two weeks before that, Biden said Trump was a "genuine threat to the nation" who would end democracy and take away people's freedoms. For him to now pretend to be above it all, demanding others lower the temperature is the height of hypocrisy. He should have spent his Oval Office address directly refuting his own rhetoric. Instead, he gaslit the public about his culpability.
Biden: “In a democracy, arguments are made in good faith.”
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 15, 2024
Is this what Biden and the entire Democratic Party was doing when they called Trump Hitler, a man who needed to be stopped “at all costs,” “eliminated,” and an “existential threat to Democracy.”
“Let’s lower the temperature, Jack. C’mon. That’s number one. Number two, the idea that the fact of the matter is, anyway.” pic.twitter.com/TTUwLGnp70
— Reverently Based 🇻🇦 (@node_cathode) July 15, 2024
This was an Oval Office address that never should have happened. No one wants to hear a lecture from one of the people most responsible for turning up the temperature in the country. People have been warning for years that it's dangerous to compare your opponent to Hitler. Biden and his cohorts didn't listen. Instead, they just kept going. They do not get to float above the fray now, acting as if they didn't play a role in this.
What the president said tonight was insulting to the intelligence of every American. Even forgetting that he's obviously senile and can't read a teleprompter without multiple miscues, Biden needs to be defeated in November. The country deserves better than this.
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