Former President Donald Trump remains active on the campaign trail, mercilessly mocking his 2020 rival, current President Joe Biden.
During a recent campaign stop in Las Vegas, Trump went so far as to perform a full physical comedy routine that mocked the 80-year-old Biden for not being able to find his way off stage.
“He can’t put two sentences together and he’s in charge of nuclear warfare,” Trump told a crowd of adoring supporters.
Citing Biden’s often confused exits from the stage after public speeches, Trump told the audience he was equipped to pinpoint exits better than his likely 2024 opponent.
‘I see a staircase there, I see a staircase there. “If I had to, I’d jump right off this thing at the front (gesturing to the front of the stage) – we could make it, it’s about six feet,” he said.
Trump then began a mime routine in which Biden got lost while looking for an exit from the stage.
Donald Trump has mercilessly mocked President Joe Biden as both men campaign for another term in the Oval Office
“It’s all worked out by then, so he’s completely incoherent,” Trump said of the president’s state of mind as he finished his speech.
He then circled around the stage, imitating the way Biden often looks lost as he waits for an attendant to escort him off stage.
At one point, Trump turned to the background of the speech and began waving his arms in mock confusion.
The supportive crowd was in a pinch and when Trump finished his speech, they started chanting his name.
At a rally last week, Trump mocked Biden for using the “kid steps” to board Air Force One.
Biden has used a shorter staircase to get on and off the presidential plane after a series of high-profile stumbles.
“Crooked Joe can’t even walk up the kiddie stairs,” Trump said, laughing.
He said in New Hampshire that potential voters likely want a leader who can step off Air Force One “nice and high” while “waving at everyone” without fear of falling.
Referring to the much shorter, sturdier kick coming out of the belly of the plane used by Biden after his widely seen leaks, he ripped into his potential opponent: “These guys are going to the little kick. We call them the children’s stairs.
“And now he’s made a habit of it, because he can’t quite figure it out,” Trump said.
Trump has ridiculed Biden’s apparent physical decline, which has taken the form of confused stage exits, public falls and adjustments to the Air Force One staircase
Video shows First Lady Jill Biden helping her 80-year-old husband walk off stage after the couple delivered keynote speeches at the Human Right’s Campaign dinner
Last month, Biden was led off stage at an event by his wife, First Lady Jill Biden — who often accompanied her husband while apparently unable to do so himself during his presidency.
After the pair delivered remarks respectively at a Human Rights Campaign dinner in Washington, D.C., Jill rejoined her husband on stage to lead him to an exit.
During his nearly three years as president, Biden has suffered a remarkably high number of public leaks, prompting the media and public to question his physical fitness for the job.
In May, Biden fell to the ground during the opening ceremony of the Air Force Academy. The episode raised concerns inside and outside the White House and led to some adjustments in his travel protocol.
Dramatic video of the event appeared to show the president tripping over a black sandbag placed on the stage, where the president was congratulating graduating cadets.
“I got sandbagged,” he joked to reporters after the fall.
In June last year, Biden embarrassingly fell off his bicycle in front of the press. while spending time at his weekend home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Gasps could be heard as he lay on the ground for ten seconds before being helped by Secret Service.
The president is helped to his feet after a fall during the graduation ceremony at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado
Biden, the oldest American president ever, sits on the sidewalk after the fall earlier this year
There was a sigh after the president suffered an unexpected fall in June while trying to get off his bike to chat with a crowd gathered along a bike path in Rehoboth Beach.
The White House later said his foot got stuck on a pedal while he was trying to dismount and that he was not injured.
Biden has also repeatedly tripped and nearly spilled while boarding and disembarking Air Force One during several foreign and domestic visits.
Although Biden is running a re-election campaign in 2024, polls show that (at least) 73 percent of Americans think he is too old for the job.
At 80, two-thirds of the president’s own party thinks he is too old.