US President Joe Biden was filmed attempting on one in every of Donald Trump’s marketing campaign hats at a 9/11 memorial occasion in Pennsylvania on Wednesday. The White Home mentioned that Biden wore his two-time opponent’s headgear in a gesture of “bipartisan unity.”
Biden met with firefighters in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, close to the place United Airways flight 93 crashed when its hijackers had been overpowered by passengers on September 11, 2001. The group within the hearth station heckled Biden, with one man asking the president “do you keep in mind your title?” as Biden autographed a hat.
“You’re an outdated fart,” the person mentioned to Biden, earlier than the president responded “Yeah, I’m an outdated man…You’ll know so much about that.”
Biden then took the person’s ‘Trump 2024’ hat and positioned it on high of his personal, eliciting cheers from the pro-Trump crowd.
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“I’m pleased with you now,” the person mentioned to Biden, as the 2 shook arms.
The White Home press pool was not invited into the fireplace station, and till a video of the encounter was posted on social media, the one pictures of the go to that made it on-line had been {a photograph} and a brief video of a smiling Biden sporting the Trump hat.
Each had been eagerly shared by the Trump marketing campaign and conservative influencers. “Kamala did so dangerous in final night time’s debate, Joe Biden simply placed on a Trump hat,” the marketing campaign’s ‘Trump Battle Room’ account posted on X.
“Perhaps Trump was on to one thing final night time when he mentioned Joe actually hates Kamala?” Republican filmmaker Robby Starbuck wrote.
Vice President Kamala Harris succeeded Biden because the Democratic Celebration’s presidential nominee in July, after Biden suspended his reelection marketing campaign following a disastrous debate efficiency in opposition to Trump. “He acquired 14 million votes and so they threw him out of workplace,” Trump mentioned throughout a debate with Harris on Tuesday. “And you realize what? I’ll provide you with a bit of secret. He hates her. He can’t stand her.”
Harris visited Shanksville with Biden on Wednesday, and was seen on the hearth station.
On Wednesday night time, the White Home issued a press release explaining Biden’s choice to don his rival’s marketing campaign merchandise.
“On the Shanksville Hearth Station, [Biden] spoke in regards to the nation’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and mentioned we would have liked to get again to that,” spokesman Andrew Bates wrote on X. “As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then mentioned that within the identical spirit, [he] ought to placed on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it.”
Shanksville is situated in Somerset County, which voted 78% for Trump and 21% for Biden within the 2020 election.
