Former President Donald Trump implied that President Joe Biden defecated on the Resolute Desk during a fundraiser in Palm Beach, much to the delight of attendees.
An anonymous source told The New York Times that Trump made the comments during a roughly 45-minute appearance at a dinner hosted by billionaire investor John Paulson on Saturday night.
The comments came as Trump criticized Biden’s border policy and mocked him for making poor decisions behind the Resolute Desk, which was gifted to the United States by Queen Victoria in 1880.
“The Resolute Desk is beautiful,” Trump proclaimed. “Ronald Reagan used it, others used it.”
He then seemed “disgusted,” according to the anonymous aide. And he is using it. I may not use it next time. It has gotten dirty. And I mean that literally, which is sad.”
Former President Donald Trump suggested that President Joe Biden defecated on the Resolute Desk during his remarks at a dinner in Palm Beach.
‘The Resolute Desk is beautiful,’ Trump proclaimed before adding that Biden had ‘made it dirty,’ ‘literally, which is sad.’
The comments came amid a tirade against the Biden administration’s border policy and the recent influx of immigrants from Latin America.
The source reported that guests burst out laughing, interpreting the comment as the former president saying that Biden had defecated on the desk.
The comments followed a tirade against Biden’s immigration policy, which includes sending, introducing and depositing immigrants into our country, according to Trump.
The former president claimed that the newly arrived immigrants “make the Hells Angels look like extremely nice people.”
“These are people who come from prisons and jails,” Trump said. “They come from incredible places and countries, countries that are a disaster.”
He then appeared to reference a comment from 2018, when he called Haiti, El Salvador and a host of African nations “shithole countries.”
“And when I said, you know, why can’t we let people come from nice countries? I’m trying to be nice,” Trump said.
‘Nice countries, you know like Denmark, Switzerland? Do we have people coming from Denmark? How about Switzerland? How about Norway?
Trump accused immigrants of “poisoning the blood of the country” and made similar comments during a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, last week, accusing Biden of unleashing a “bloodbath” at the country’s southern border.
‘Under corrupt Joe Biden, every state is now a border state. “Every city is now a border city because Joe Biden has brought the carnage, chaos and murder from around the world and dumped it right into our backyards,” Trump said.
The former president claimed that immigrants “make the Hells Angels look like extremely nice people.”
He made similar comments during a rally in Michigan last week, claiming that Biden “brought the carnage, chaos and murder from around the world and dumped it right into our backyards.”
These criticisms have been echoed by other right-wing politicians such as Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who accused Biden of opening the floodgates to immigrants with prior criminal convictions.
Other conservative politicians, such as Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn, have echoed his concerns.
In a news release from his office last month, Blackburn claimed that “30,000 illegal immigrants with prior criminal convictions, including homicide, domestic violence and sexual assault” had entered the country under Biden.
“As a direct result of this open borders agenda, gang members from around the world are entering the United States and establishing their operations, endangering police officers, families and public safety,” Blackburn said.
The statement was titled ‘Biden’s open border is fueling violent crime’ and made reference to Laken Riley, the 22-year-old University of Georgia nursing student who was murdered by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela.
While cases of violence are a regular topic in the press, the alleged “immigration crime wave” is not supported by the most recent data.
Nationwide crime saw a decline in 2023, according to the FBI, including homicides dropping 13 percent year over year. This followed an unprecedented increase in homicides from 2019 to 2020.
Additionally, a 2020 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that U.S.-born citizens are twice as likely to be arrested for violent crimes as undocumented immigrants.