Vice President Joe Biden said he’d rather see fast food clown mascot Ronald McDonald win the election next week than Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.
“Given the choice, I’ll take Ronald McDonald,” Biden told a crowd in Madison, Wis., on Friday.
Biden was campaigning for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and former Sen. Russ Feingold, who is locked in a dead heat with Johnson in his bid to retake his seat. He was mocking Johnson who, in introducing Trump at a rally, referred to the duo as “the Ronald and Donald” show.
Biden said Trump’s foreign policy stances are emboldening terrorists and making America’s allies nervous, and said Trump is giving solace back at “his home of Russia.”
Trump’s suggestion that the Iraqi government authorized the siege against the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, to benefit Clinton is ridiculous and dangerous.
“Think of what strength it gives ISIS and others when he says” that, Biden said. “That is the propaganda that is being sold in Syria and Iraq right now.”
Trump’s refusal to accept the intelligence community’s assessment that Moscow was behind the hacks of the Democratic Party’s email hurt Washington’s reputation, Biden said.
When he says the intelligence agencies don’t know what they’re talking about, “think how that damages the United States,” Biden said.
