Former President Donald Trump mocked President Biden for reading “pause” on the teleprompter and asked a Wisconsin crowd if “sleepy” or “crooked” was Joe’s best nickname.
The presumptive Republican nominee was referring to Biden’s speech to union members a week ago, where he read instructions aloud.
The 77-year-old said at the rally at the Waukesha County Expo Center, on a day off from his hush money trial, that he did not need technical help during his speeches.
‘Now think if I read my teleprompter and it’s okay to see me there because of the weakness of the economy, I would like to… pause… pause… pause… what was that?’ That is incredible.
Former President Donald Trump mocked President Biden for reading “pause” on the teleprompter and asked a Wisconsin crowd if “sleepy” or “crooked” was the best nickname for Joe.
‘Pause. You know, he was watching it and I said ‘that was weird,’ Trump said during his rancorous rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
“They don’t actually have a pause on my teleprompter, you know, they have a blank space, like to see if there’s an answer,” said Trump, who often veers completely off the prompter.
‘If there is no response, you just continue, you don’t have a break. “If some speechwriter says pause, you won’t know,” Trump said.
Just hours later, at a rally in Michigan, Trump stepped away from the podium to adjust his own teleprompter, telling the boisterous crowd: “These teleprompters are just gonzo people, they’re gonzo.”
Elsewhere, Trump mocked Biden in Wisconsin for not speaking out as protests erupt at colleges across the country.
“Do you think if I said, ‘Okay, look, let’s not kid ourselves,'” Trump said at the podium.
“Ladies and gentlemen, President Biden is coming to give you his words of inspiration,” Trump said quietly as the crowd laughed.
“Does anyone think now that it will be so inspiring that everyone will say ‘oh, we have to go home, we love our country,'” Trump continued in his usual voice.
“No, they’ll say, ‘Do you believe the guy who’s the president of that country?'” Trump continued.
“This guy, he’s… he’s…” Trump paused, rolling his eyes. “Yes, he needs something,” he added, pointing to someone in the crowd who seemed to have intervened.
He then conducted an impromptu poll among the MAGA faithful asking them to cheer on their favorite nickname, ‘Sleepy’ or ‘Crooked.’
‘Crooked’ seemed to win. “That Crooked Joe is a bad guy,” he said. “I thought he was going to be a lot closer than that, wow.”
Trump went on to claim that “nothing has been heard from Biden” and stated that “when you have a problem you should go out and talk about it and talk to people.”
The presumptive Republican nominee was referencing Biden’s speech to union members a week ago, where he read the instructions aloud.
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Donald Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, on Wednesday, where he praised police for clearing Columbia and criticized university protests.
The former president stated that there is a problem ‘there is a lot of fever in our country, but he does not speak’.
The former president suggested it would make no difference or, in fact, make things worse.
Pro-Palestinian camps have sprung up on university campuses across the country.
While the White House condemned protesters who stormed Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall and unfurled a banner reading “intifada” before police cleared it Tuesday night, President Biden has remained silent about the issue.
During his rally in Wisconsin, Trump urged college presidents to “immediately remove the camps, defeat the radicals, and reclaim our campuses for all regular students who want a safe place to learn.”
