Former President Donald Trump confronted both Bidens during his MAGA-themed 78th birthday party in Florida on Friday night.
Thousands of the former president’s faithful gathered at the Palm Beach County Convention Center to commemorate the great occasion, wearing a variety of red, white and blue outfits to greet Trump’s birthday coinciding with Flag Day.
The director of the ’47 Club’, the large pro-Trump club in South Florida, presented the presumptive Republican candidate with a six-tier cake with a MAGA hat and scenes of the White House and the golf course.
The crowd sang “Happy Birthday” to Trump as he responded in wonder: “This is by far the biggest birthday party I’ve ever had.”
But instead of cutting the cake, he cut the Bidens, pointing to the now-viral moment when the 81-year-old president parachuted away during a rally with G7 leaders.
‘The new leader of Italy did a great job. She said, “Turn around, you fool,” Trump said. “And then his wife flew back and forth like she was a taxi.”
Former President Donald Trump headlined a ‘Club 47’ event in West Palm Beach, Florida, to celebrate his birthday, complete with cake and the birthday song. But it was politics as usual, with Trump mocking both President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden.
Club 47 organizers brought out a six-tier cake that included scenes of the Oval Office and the golf course, as well as a bright red MAGA hat.
The viral clip, shared by conservative online accounts, did not show Biden reaching out to talk to a skydiver who had just landed.
First lady Jill Biden flew from France back to Wilmington last week to spend the day with her son Hunter in court, before boarding her government plane to fly back to Paris for a state dinner with the Macrons.
“It’s Air Force One and/or Air Force Two; I mean, just back and forth, back and forth, let’s go, let’s go, let’s sit on a test for a day, back and forth, back and forth.” “It’s really terrible,” Trump said.
The first lady has her own plane, called the Executive One Foxtrot.
On Tuesday, a Delaware-based jury convicted Hunter on three federal weapons charges.
When Trump turned one year old, he criticized Biden for the Democrat’s competence and age.
‘And we have a president who has no idea what the hell is going on. Look at it yesterday. Watch it the day before. In Europe. He doesn’t know where the hell he is,” Trump commented. “Our country has never been in danger like it is now.”
“This very week, ICE has arrested not one, not two, but eight suspected terrorists of the highest level of terrorism,” Trump added.
He was referring to the arrests of eight Tajik nationals with alleged links to ISIS found in the US cities of Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia.
‘We had a year where actually no terrorists came in, if you look at 2019, that was a Trump year, no terrorists came in.’ I don’t know if I believe it, but it was certainly a good report.
It was not immediately clear which report he was referring to, but it was a rare moment in which Trump praised “fake news.”
He then attacked journalists again by mentioning the positive coverage Biden received during his trip to the G7 in Italy.
“Today I saw the fake news and they said he was doing a wonderful job in Europe. The guy is lost,” Trump said. “Every time he does something, all he has to do is complete it.”
Trump then complained about glowing reviews of Biden’s State of the Union address earlier this year: “Wasn’t that wonderful tonight?” Trump said.
Several birthdays were addressed to the media and mocked.
“So, in addition to all of his other well-documented crimes, corrupt Joe Biden is now also guilty of providing material support to terrorism,” Trump said.
With Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, a former White House doctor, as part of the evening’s preshow, Trump also recalled how he passed a cognitive test under Jackson’s supervision.
“All presidents should take aptitude tests, IQ tests or cognitive tests,” Trump said.
The former president recalled how Jackson had described the test as “tough”: “the last three quarters are pretty tough, right?”
“I got over it,” he said with a smile.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was the final speaker before Trump’s appearance Friday night. He is a favorite to become Trump’s vice president among political donors.
A supporter who attended former President Donald Trump’s birthday event in Florida on Friday night wore a T-shirt that said, “I wish Hillary would have married OJ.”
Red, white and blue outfits were being sold from vendors at the back of the convention hall where former President Donald Trump spoke to mark his 78th birthday.
Trump supporters had the opportunity to purchase T-shirts that read “I’ll Vote Felon 2024” after the former president was convicted in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
Two potential vice presidential picks closed out the pre-show: The birthday event began with Florida Rep. Byron Donalds leading the crowd in prayer and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio giving the final speech before the cake and then Trump arrived.
At just 45 years old and in his second term in Congress, Donalds’s political rise has been rapid.
He is one of three Black men Trump is reportedly considering for the No. 2 spot on the list, along with South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and former HUD Director Ben Carson.
He wished a “happy birthday to the 45th and 47th president of the United States” to cheers and applause.
Rubio, a Cuban-American from Miami, was one of Trump’s rivals in 2016, slapping him at the end of that cycle’s Republican primaries after Trump nicknamed him ‘Little Marco.’
Cardboard cutouts of the birthday boy were sold in the back of the convention center before the former president’s appearance.
Several supporters wore homemade Trump birthday hats emblazoned with MAGA slogans.
A group of Trump supporters wait outside Friday to enter the Palm Beach County Convention Center for a birthday event sponsored by the group ‘Club 47.’
The Florida senator emerged as one of Trump’s favorite donors several months ago and appears to remain in the vice presidential race.
Florida Rep. Mike Waltz mocked that fact Friday before Rubio took the stage.
‘Maybe Florida could have a new vice president. “We’ll see,” Waltz said.
The man who once mocked Trump’s hand size and suggested he might have wet his pants on Friday spoke about the former president and presumptive nominee’s love of country.
“There’s only one reason someone like him would be in politics,” Rubio said, noting that Trump is rich, has a big family and could be doing a lot of other things with his life.
“There’s only one reason: because he loves our country and wants to save it from the people who want to destroy it,” Rubio said.
The Florida senator highlighted how many politicians “come out richer.”
“Politics has cost him money,” he said of Trump.
Rubio was quite beloved by the Florida crowd, but he wasn’t necessarily the leading vice presidential candidate on the lips of the MAGA crowd.
Anita Ingram, who declined to give her age but simply said she was “old” and a retiree from Viera, Florida, said her best choice for vice president was Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who served as secretary of Trump White House press.
Evangelical pastor Lydia Maldonado, 66, of Boyton, Florida, first mentioned Sen. Ted Cruz as Trump’s top pick for vice president.
“I believe with all my heart that Ted Cruz would be amazing,” he said. “Ted Cruz would attract the Latino and evangelical vote.”
Cruz does not appear in the race.
After that, he mentioned his state senator Rubio.
‘Second option Marco Rubio. As you can see, I’m Hispanic,’ he noted. “I think Marco Rubio would be great.”
Maldonado said Rubio’s main problem is that he is from the same state as Trump, which is prohibited by the 12th Amendment.