Trump shows just how angry claims of cognitive impairment make him

Donald Trump just revealed how annoyed he is about the news media portraying him as cognitively impaired while speaking at a campaign event in Philidelphia. Here’s what the former president said and it got a big reaction from his audience. 

Trump was at a rally on June 22nd when he took a few minutes to rant about Joe Biden and the way the news media were treating him versus his 2024 presidential rival when it came to how they portrayed each candidate's mental faculties.

The former president talked to the crowd in Pennsylvania about how Biden's backers say all of his recent mishaps caught on camera were fake.  “They say the fake news covered him in a fake manner,” Trump said according to a quote from Mediaite. 

“That’s a lot of fake news back there,” Trump said about the press at the campaign event while the crowd booed the news media. “All we want them to do is be honest, because they’re all going out of business. Nobody believes them anymore,” the former president added. 

Trump then dove into a weird rant that saw him claim the news media had caught Biden in several horrible positions, but instead of calling Biden out on them, they argued in favor of the President and reported that they weren’t compromising. 

“So they get him in about nine different positions… they get him in all these horrible compromising posts and then they say he wasn’t, it really wasn’t that way. It was, so,” Trump explained to the crowd, who were booing as he spoke.

“If I blow it up here, though, they actually… take a perfect, brilliant, beautiful statement that I make. I go for two hours without teleprompters… and if I say one word slightly out, they say, ‘he’s cognitively impaired,’” Trump said with a weird inflection. 

Trump went on to claim that Biden in comparison, could run into walls, fall off of a stage, and even fall upstairs, and the media would along with whatever explanation was given to explain away Biden’s weird behavior.

The former president called out a particular incident that he claimed the media played off that allegedly saw Biden staring at a tree while he was surrounded by foreign leaders and a paratrooper that dropped from the sky. Trump was likely referencing an incident from the mid-June 2024 G7 summit in Italy. 

“From 20,000 feet of paratroopers landing right in front of him. Everybody, all the foreign leaders there watching, and he turns around to look at a tree. Right? No. And then they say it was fake, he was fine,” Trump said sarcastically,

“And then the press goes along with it. They go along with it. They say, isn’t it terrible, the way they cover him? No, no. He’s terrible. The worst president in history by far,” Trump said. “We have to get him out or this country is not going to survive another year," he added before moving on to another topic. 

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