At Wisconsin Rally, Biden Mocks ‘Stable Genius’ Trump for July Fourth Story About Revolutionary War Airports

Sarah RumpfJul 5th, 2024, 4:16 pm
 

President Joe Biden opened his Madison, Wisconsin rally by taking a swipe at his opponent’s mental fitness, mocking former President Donald Trump for a bonkers story he told about George Washington’s army seizing airports from the British.

Biden has been facing increasing scrutiny since his verbal stumbles during last Thursday’s debate against former President Donald Trump. Recent polling showed 72% of Americans do not believe he has the “mental and cognitive health to be president,” and on Tuesday, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) became the first sitting Democrat in Congress to publicly call for him to withdraw from the race. The week continued to bring more tough headlines for the president, as rumors swirled about internal discontent among Democrats and anxiety among campaign staff.

Nonetheless, Biden remains adamant that he intends to stay in the race, and is sitting down for an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos for an interview that will air Friday evening.

Biden opened his Wisconsin speech — in which he defiantly declared he was “staying in the race” — by questioning whether Trump really “has it all together”:

Folks, did you have a good Fourth of July? By the way, if you’re wondering whether Trump has it all together, did you ever hear how he explained the Fourth of July, when he was president? 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. Talk about me misspeaking? Airports and the British in 1776? It’s true, he is a stable genius, this man.

At Trump’s July 4, 2019 remarks at the Lincoln Memorial, he did in fact say that Washington’s army “took over the airports”:

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 and seized victory from Cornwallis of Yorktown. Our army manned the [unclear], it [unclear] the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do. And at Fort McHenry, under “the rockets red glare,” it had nothing but victory. And when dawn came, their star-spangled banner waved defiant.

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Sarah Rumpf joined Mediaite in 2020 and is a Contributing Editor focusing on politics, law, and the media. A native Floridian, Sarah attended the University of Florida, graduating with a double major in Political Science and German, and earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the UF College of Law. Sarah's writing has been featured at National Review, The Daily Beast, Reason, Law & Crime, Independent Journal Review, Texas Monthly, The Capitolist, Breitbart Texas, Townhall, RedState, The Orlando Sentinel, and the Austin-American Statesman, and her political commentary has led to appearances on the BBC, MSNBC, NewsNation, Fox 35 Orlando, Fox 7 Austin, The Young Turks, The Dean Obeidallah Show, and other television, radio, and podcast programs across the globe.