Joe’s from Scranton, remember?
If anything, President Joe Biden has been too polite with Donald “91 Counts” Trump, indicted private citizen. .
Gossip from Politico:
President JOE BIDEN has a reputation for salty language behind closed doors. But it nearly slipped out in public during his speech at Valley Forge last month to mark the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Animated and angry, he derided DONALD TRUMP and his followers for drawing glee from political violence.
“At his rally, he jokes about an intruder, whipped up by the Big Trump Lie, taking a hammer to Paul Pelosi’s skull,” Biden said.
“And he thinks that’s funny,” the president continued. “He laughed about it. What a sick …”
Biden let his voice trail off as the crowd cheered and chuckled.
In private, he doesn’t stop short.
The president has described Trump to longtime friends and close aides as a “sick fuck” who delights in others’ misfortunes, according to three people who have heard the president use the profane description. According to one of the people who has spoken with the president, Biden recently said of Trump: “What a fucking asshole the guy is.”
The White House declined to comment.
Of course. Biden, who jokingly crosses himself when he almost says what he’s thinking, has more respect for his office than his likely 2024 opponent. Trump respects no one except foreign dictators with a more iron grip on power than he managed.
More loathsome
Biden’s private comments illustrate the career public servant’s “core anger” toward an opportunist opponent with no prior experience in public office and no respect for the Constitution.
Biden believes Trump has grown only more loathsome with time. The ex-president’s jokes about the attack on PAUL PELOSI, the 83-year-old husband of former House Speaker NANCY PELOSI, particularly gall Biden.
“I fail to see the scandal here,” shrugs Washington Post columnist Helaine Olen.
We needn’t recount in detail other Trump incidents that earned Biden’s disgust: Trump “gleefully” watching Jan. 6 rioters “fighting for me,” his “both sides” comment after Charlottesville, his lavish praise for Vladimir Putin, and especially Trump’s refusing to visit a military cemetery in the rain and referring to military dead as “suckers” and “losers.”
Respect is earned. But Trump wouldn’t know anything about that.