Leaders Stunned As Trump Bashes Biden At Peace Event — One Visibly Laughs
President Donald Trump bashed former President Joe Biden during a White House event, visibly stunning both world leaders who were signing a U.S.-brokered peace agreement.
Trump is well-known for his insults, including a favorite moniker for Biden that you don’t hear much anymore these days. But on Friday, he trotted it out for a special occasion.
During an event announcing a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Trump drew laughter with a wisecrack about Steve Witkoff, then drew mixed reactions from Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan with the Biden jab.
Aliyev laughed and Pashinyan raised his eyebrows to someone in the audience:
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Thank you, Chris. Thank you very much. And Steve, thank you very much. We have some other wonderful dignitaries including the dignitaries from your country. But they provided uh tremendous diplomatic assistance.
And Marco, congratulations. It’s a big, it’s a big thing. Keep going. You’ve got many jobs. And then, of course, you would say Steve was quite influential. I call him Henry Kissinger who doesn’t leak.
(LAUGHTER)
For more than 35 years, Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought a bitter conflict that resulted in tremendous suffering for both nations. They suffered gravely for so many years. Many tried to find a resolution, including the European Union.
The Russians worked very hard on it. Never happened. Sleepy Joe Biden tried–, -.
AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV: (LAUGHS).
ARMENIA PRIME MINISTER NIKOL PASHINYAN: (RAISES EYEBROWS).
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: –but you know what happened there. He tried for probably 12 minutes and didn’t work out.
And many other countries tried, and they were unsuccessful. But with this accord, we’ve finally succeeded in making peace, and we just left the Oval Office where we signed voluminous documents and very important elements to the agreement.
Watch above via the White House press pool.