Nobody does explosive soundbites quite like Donald Trump. It’s one of the reasons he once enjoyed Twitter so much: he had a huge (or “yuge,” as he might say) audience for pithy comments about everything and everyone under the sun. Eventually, this helped fuel his political success and election as President of the United States: after all, he had built a solid reputation for saying things nobody else would (or could) say.
After losing the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, Trump is hoping to win the 2024 presidential election, and his ability to generate crazy soundbites was on full display at the Fox News town hall event in December. The former president said many wild things at the event, but the one that has everyone talking concerns his prediction about Joe Biden’s life expectancy.
What did Trump say, exactly, and why doesn’t he think Biden has much longer to live? Keep reading to find out!
Donald Trump doesn’t think Joe Biden will be alive for the 2024 election
Over the years, there has been plenty of discourse surrounding Joe Biden’s age. At 81 years old, he is already the oldest person to ever be elected President of the United States. He fully plans to campaign for president again, and if he should win, he’ll be 86 years old when he leaves office.
Many say that he’s just too old to run again, but at the Fox News town hall event in Iowa, Donald Trump questioned whether Biden would even be alive for the election. As The Hill reports, the former president began his criticism of Biden by questioning his mental agility. “We have a man that can’t put two sentences together. We have a man that doesn’t know he’s alive,” he said.
That was when Trump dropped his bombshell prediction: “I personally don’t think he makes it…I personally don’t think he makes it physically. Mentally, I would say he’s equally as bad and maybe worse.” Trump claims he has felt this way for a long time now but was saving his dark predictions about Biden dying for this particular town hall event.
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Trump questioned Biden’s cognitive ability in 2020
While it’s bold even for Donald Trump to outright predict the death of his political rival, his comments about Joe Biden’s health may sound a bit familiar. For example, in 2020, he gave an interview to Fox News in which he questioned whether Biden had a sharp enough mind to become President of the United States.
As NBC News reports, Trump mentioned the Montreal Cognitive Assessment that he took when running for president in 2016. Soon enough, he pivoted to talking about Biden “Joe should take that test because something’s going on, and I say this with respect.” It seems clear in retrospect that Trump wanted to go for the low-hanging fruit when criticizing Biden, but it’s hard to disagree with his assessment that the presidency is “a very important job, to put it mildly. You need stamina, physical health, and mental health.”
The age gap irony Trump and his supporters won’t acknowledge
It’s not exactly surprising that Donald Trump keeps hammering home Biden’s age as a reason he may be unfit to be president and may not even make it to the next election. As we said before, Biden is already the oldest person to ever be elected president, and when he runs again in 2024, he will be that much older. Trump is one of many who think Biden is just too old to have the job of the most powerful man in the world, but there is a certain irony to his criticisms that both Trump and his supporters keep ignoring.
Here’s the irony: Donald Trump is only four years younger than Biden. That means that during the 2024 presidential election, Trump will be just as old as Biden was during the 2020 election. In short, if someone really believes that Biden was too old to run for president in 2020, they have no reason to think Trump isn’t too old to run for president in 2024!
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Trump’s bizarre admission that he will be a temporary ‘dictator’
Donald Trump’s prediction that Joe Biden will straight up die before the 2024 election was certainly the most explosive comment he made that night. However, he had another surprising comment when he was asked about the recent criticisms that, if elected as president again, he would become a dictator.
As CNN reports, when Sean Hannity asked the former president “You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?”, Trump replied “No, no other than day one.’ We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.”
Chances are that Trump wanted to sound tough in this clip, but the truth is he just told the world he will be a dictator but it’s okay because it will only be temporary. And considering he gave an interview to Univision just last month and mentioned his desire to indict anyone “who’s doing well and beating me very badly,” many are wondering just how “temporary” a Trump dictatorship would truly be.