Irritated Trump Rages at Biden for Claiming Ex-President Forgot His Wife’s Name: ‘He Should Not Be Leading This Country!’
An irritated former President Donald Trump took umbrage at President Joe Biden for claiming Trump had forgotten his wife’s name.
Much has been made about Biden’s age, 81, though Trump isn’t far behind at 77. Appearing on Monday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, Biden cracked a joke that prompted a two-minute video from Trump.
“All jokes aside, according to recent polling, this is a real concern for American voters,” Meyers told Biden. “How do you address that concern going forward as you come up to the 2024 election?”
“Well, a couple things. Number one, you got to take a look at the other guy,” Biden replied. “He’s about as old as I am, but he can’t remember his wife’s name.”
Despite claims that Trump misidentified his wife Melania Trump as “Mercedes” (as in Mercedes Schlapp) at CPAC, the former president actually intended to address Schlapp. Some outlets noted that Biden’s roast was erroneous.
It took nearly 48 hours, but Trump responded on Truth Social and blasted Biden and Democrats for being “dishonest”:
They’re constantly making up stories about me because their candidate is a mental and physical basket case. There’s never been anything like it. He’s also the worst president in the history of our country. He went on a very poorly rated show last night [sic] and he talked about Donald Trump and his wife. I don’t know the name of my wife.
He was referring to the fact that, at CPAC, where I had a sold-out speech, the biggest audience they’ve had in years, I think maybe ever, I made the statement that Melania was very popular because when I mentioned her name, the audience went wild. I then looked at the two people – man and wife – Matt and Mercedes Schlapp and I said, “Wow! They really like the [former] First Lady.”
So, this got taken as the fact that I thought Mercedes was the [former] First Lady. Has nothing to do with that. These people are really dishonest. They are absolutely something. They have a horrible candidate who’s a horrible president! They make up things constantly. You take a look at when I use “Barack Hussein Obama,” and I interject him into where it’s supposed to be “Biden,” and I do it purposely for comedic reasons and for sarcasm because a lot of people say that Obama is running the country, not Biden because he’s sleeping all the time. They say, oh, I don’t know the name of the president.
Or when I imitate this guy getting off the stage, what they do is they say, “Oh, he had trouble getting off the stage.” I have no trouble getting up or getting off a stage. Anybody that watches me and what I do at rallies would say, “Wow, that’s amazing. He can go two hours without a teleprompter not making even a little mistake.” Very few people, maybe almost nobody can do what I do.
So, here’s the story. The disinformation of the Democrats is unbelievable. They do it because they have a horrible candidate. Don’t associate me with the mental midget that you portray because I wanna tell you, he should not be leading this country!
Trump and Biden are in all likelihood headed for a general election rematch in November. The former president is currently under criminal indictment in four jurisdictions. Two of those cases stem from his attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, which he falsely claimed was rigged against him.
Watch above via Truth Social.
