Trump Mocks Gaffe-Riddled Biden: 'Shaking Hands With The Air, Taking Orders From Easter Bunny'
06:43 GMT 24.04.2022 (Updated: 09:08 GMT 16.02.2023)
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Ex-POTUS Donald Trump visited Delaware County, Ohio for a rally 10 days ahead of the primary elections in the state, where he unleashed a tirade against Joe Biden, homing in on what appeared to be the latest in a long line of the 79-year-old president’s gaffes.
Donald Trump didn’t mince his words when he brought up several viral moments involving Joe Biden, recently captured on video, as he addressed an Ohio rally on Saturday.
The former president, who was in the state to endorse a number of candidates before the primary election on 3 May, including Senate primary candidate JD Vance, questioned the 79-year-old president’s ability to lead the country, saying:
“We've never had anything like this and we have a president right now, sadly, who has absolutely no idea what the hell is happening ... He's shaking hands with the air. He's walking around somewhat bewildered - I'd say it's no good - and taking orders from the Easter Bunny.”
Trump appeared to be referencing one of the latest apparent gaffe’s from the 46th POTUS, such as the one where a person dressed in an Easter Bunny costume seemed to direct a “confused” Biden who “wandered off” to take selfies with children at the White House Easter Egg Roll last week.
“You know, the Easter Bunny was a political operative… He did a good job, actually. We should hire that guy,” quipped Trump.
Indeed, the commander-in-chief who, last November, underwent a medical examination that concluded his health did not impede his duties, often finds himself in awkward situations. . Biden even referred to himself on one occasion as a “gaffe machine”.
A person in an Easter Bunny outfit interrupted Joe Biden’s comments at the White House's Easter egg roll on Monday.
Biden, filmed speaking with reporters and guests, had begun discussing Afghanistan when Meghan Hays - a White House press official and director of message planning who was reportedly wearing the costume - broke in to usher him away, seemingly steering him away from another awkward moment.
The video of the incident set off a Twitter typhoon among Republican supporters. Matt Whitlock, a former aide to Utah senator Orrin Hatch, tweeted about how the WH sent in the Easter Bunny to “interrupt whatever he was about to say on Afghanistan”.
How bad does the White House staff have to think Biden is to calculate that sending in the EASTER BUNNY to interrupt a gaggle is better optics than whatever he was about to say on Afghanistan? https://t.co/AKnXiq5VWr
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) April 18, 2022
.@POTUS @FLOTUS SURPRISE! pic.twitter.com/tE1dvRYkj6
— Meghan Hays (@MegHays46) April 18, 2022
Netizens weighed in on the tirade Trump unleashed against Biden at the Ohio rally on Saturday, with many yet again suggesting that “whoever is leading Biden around” should be charged with “elder abuse”.
This moment with Biden was really sad and what makes it more so, is that whoever is leading Biden around, knowing he is not "all there", those people should be charged with elder abuse. I did not vote for him, but I find it disgraceful what they are doing to that man.,
— DJ Sherrard (@Gramybear) April 24, 2022
What’s really sad is that his family is part of it.
— Marley and Me (@MeandMarley10) April 24, 2022
The Easter Bunny has more awareness
— General J🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@jsedge88) April 18, 2022
Gas and groceries are destroying my family and I
— Mr. Largo ™️ (@QLargo1) April 21, 2022
When I see Joe Biden taking orders from the Easterbunny it’s extremely worrisome.
It’s shameful, sad & people need to take a hard look at how we ended up with this man and if your still defending him you are insane. #SnowfallFX
23 April 2022, 00:23 GMT
These remarks come in the wake of a recent incident when, after wrapping up his speech in the city of Seattle, Washington, on Friday, Biden said goodbye to his audience and turned around, appearing to extend his hand for a handshake to nowhere, in a bizarre repeat of what happened a week earlier.
After finishing his speech in the state of North Carolina on infrastructure reform, Joe Biden turned his back on the stage and held out his hand for an alleged handshake, although there was no one standing near him.
Looking somewhat confused, Biden took a few steps near the podium, seemingly looking for a way to leave the stage.
On 21 April, Joe Biden turned his own gaffe into a joke in an attempt to save face, as he seemed to struggle with pronouncing the surname of Earl Blumenauer, the Democrat representative of Oregon's third congressional district. After the blunder, the president joked that the press may mispronounce his own name as well, saying that he could be called “Beedn” in response.
