President Joe Biden has responded to calls to drop out of the 2024 presidential race with his own mockery of Donald Trump's mental capacity.
Speaking in Madison Wisconsin on Friday, Biden asked the crowd how their Fourth of July was. They cheered with enthusiasm. But Biden then turned to his opponent.
"By the way, if you wonder whether Trump has it all together, did you ever hear how he explained the Fourth of July when he was president?" Biden asked the crowd. "No, I'm serious, this is true. His explanation of how America won the Revolutionary War, I'm not making this up. He said in his Fourth of July speech five years ago, he said George Washington's army won the revolution by taking control of the airports from the British."
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Biden, a Catholic, crossed himself. The crowd began to laugh.
"Talk about me misspeaking. Airports and the British in 1776?" Biden laughed. "It's true, he is a stable genius, this man."
The take is an accurate account of the Trump speech.
On July 4, 2019, Trump said that in "June of 1775, the Continental Congress created a unified army out of the revolutionary forces encamped around Boston and New York. And named after the great George Washington, commander-in-chief, the Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware [River] and seized victory from Cornwallis at Yorktown."
Washington's crossing of the Delaware was said to have unfolded on the night of December 25–26, 1776. Valley Forge was a year later, the National Park Service explains.
The Battle of Yorktown and the subsequent surrender began quite a bit later, on Sept. 28, 1781.
Trump continued: "Our Army manned the airports. It rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rocket's red glare, it had nothing but victory."
The battle at Fort McHenry wasn't during the Revolutionary War but during the War of 1812. It was also a fight against the British forces, which were blocking trade. There was also a fight over the "impressment of American sailors by the British Navy as well as Native American policy," explained the Library of Congress.
Biden didn't fact-check the rest of Trump's July 4 speech.
The Wright brothers flew their first airplane in 1903, and the first airport was built in College Park, Maryland, in 1909 by the Wright brothers.
See Biden's mockery in the video below or at the link here.
Biden mocks Trump's July 4 claim George Washington took control of airports youtu.be
See the Trump video below:
Donald Trump Says Continental Army 'Took Over The Airports' In The Revolutionary War | NBC News www.youtube.com
