President Joe Biden took off the gloves Wednesday, saying former President Donald Trump deserved to be beaten and have bleach injected into his hair — while waging his own battle with the teleprompter.
Biden addressed the North America’s Building Trades Unions conference in Washington, DC, after winning the union’s support in the 2024 presidential race.
He teased the crowd about what he could accomplish if given “four more years,” though he read aloud the teleprompter’s command to “pause,” creating an awkward moment of silence before the audience gave a “four more years” year’ chant.
Biden told the throngs of union workers that Trump is “looking down on us.”
“Think of the guys you grew up with that you would like to get in your corner, and just give them the immediate left,” Biden said. “I’m not suggesting we hit the president. But we all knew guys like that growing up.”
President Joe Biden took off the gloves Wednesday by saying former President Donald Trump deserved to be beaten and have bleach injected into his hair — while waging his own battle with the teleprompter
He took another verbal swipe at Trump while bringing up the former president’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“By the way, remember when he was trying to deal with COVID and he said, just inject a little bleach into your veins?” Biden asked, “He missed — it all went to his hair.”
That joke got the crowd going.
“I shouldn’t have said that,” Biden said.
“You are a bad influence on me,” the president added, laughing.
NABTU’s endorsement of Biden was largely due to him signing the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which jump-started construction projects across the country.
Before Biden’s appearance, the union played a nearly five-minute video of NABTU President Sean McGarvey making the case against Trump against joining the union.
Biden said Wednesday that Trump is “looking down on us.” “Think of the guys you grew up with that you would like to get in your corner, and just give them the immediate left,” Biden said. “I’m not suggesting we hit the president. But we all knew guys like that growing up.”
In the video, McGarvey talked about how he has known Trump since the 1980s.
‘The only difference between the Donald Trump of the 80s and the Donald Trump of today is that he feels completely free to express his dark side. And his dark side is very, very dark and very, very dangerous for this country,” McGarvey said.
McGarvey talked about how Trump, as president, promised to help NABTU workers get their pensions in order.
However, Trump delivered nothing.
McGarvey also called out Trump for never delivering on an infrastructure package.
“Donald Trump is incapable of running anything, let alone the most powerful country in the history of the world, and God help us if he gets anywhere near that White House in the future,” said the union boss.
After the event wrapped, the Trump campaign almost immediately spotlighted Biden’s teleprompt hiccup.
‘Cognitively Impaired Joe Biden Reads Teleprompter: ‘Four More Years? Break?,” read the Trump campaign press release, which shared the short video clip.