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Although he is younger than U.S. President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, who is in his late 70s, has recently been in the spotlight for a series of verbal mistakes.
Former President Trump was born in 1946 and is 77 years old. President Biden, born in 1942, is 80 years old as his birthday has not yet passed. President Biden is being attacked for having problems with his cognitive abilities due to frequent slips of speech and falls, and former President Trump is also suffering from similar attacks as he exposes his weaknesses.
On the 2nd (local time), CNN highlighted that former President Trump is attacking former President Biden’s cognitive ability even though he has recently experienced a series of verbal mistakes.
At a campaign rally held in Iowa last month, former President Trump reportedly walked around the stage with a confused expression, saying, “He’s always looking around, ‘Where should I go?’” He mocked President Biden by imitating him exaggeratedly.
However, just a few weeks later, former President Trump caused controversy by referring to Sioux City as Sioux Falls in a speech in Sioux City, Iowa. Sioux Falls is a completely different city in North Dakota.
In a speech in Washington DC last September, he said, “President Biden can plunge the world into World War II,” and said, “I beat Barack Obama in the presidential election.” World War II had already ended in 1945, and it was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, not former President Obama, who won the presidential election.
It may be dismissed as a minor slip of the tongue, but as it is repeated multiple times, the controversy is growing.
At a campaign rally in New Hampshire late last month, he mentioned Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, saying, “He is probably one of the most powerful leaders in the world,” and “He is the leader of Turkicye.”
At a rally held in South Carolina last September, he made a statement that seemed to confuse former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who competed in the 2016 Republican primary, with former President George W. Bush.
As a result, attacks are coming from within the Republican Party.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis told reporters at the end of last month, “Former President Trump today is different from 2015 or 2016. “He lost his fastball velocity.” Governor DeSantis’ presidential campaign is said to have even created a ‘Trump mistake tracker’.
Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, who rose to second place in a recent Republican candidate poll, criticized former President Trump for his mistake, saying, “It may be presumptuous, but I am not confused.”
The Democratic Party is also trying to keep former President Trump in check by highlighting related information on social networking services, as there is a high possibility that he will become the Republican presidential candidate.
However, it is unclear whether it will be able to make a dent in former President Trump’s solid support base. Former President Trump caused controversy in January 2016 when he said, “I wouldn’t lose my supporters even if I shot someone in the middle of New York’s Fifth Avenue,” but he actually won the presidential election that year.
“This fake news that the Biden team is attempting to cover up for the failure of their candidacy does nothing to change the dynamics of the election,” Stephen Cheng, a spokesman for former President Trump’s campaign, said in a statement. “People already know that former President Trump is the strongest candidate,” he said. “In contrast, President Biden falls on stage, mutters during speeches, gets confused about where to walk, and falls down the stairs of Air Force One.” .
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Source: Donga
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