President Trump dismissed recent criticism from Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden during a Wednesday morning question and answer session with reporters. “Joe Biden has truly lost his fastball,” the president said when a reporter informed him that the former vice president had said he was “more like George Wallace than George Washington.”
The president’s comments were made just moments before he left for Dayton, Ohio to visit local leaders and victims of a deadly shooting on Sunday morning that killed nine. Trump will head to El Paso, Texas later today in the wake of an attack there on Saturday that took the lives of 22 people.
Biden’s campaign team released several excerpts this morning from a speech he will give in Iowa later today. “We’re living through a rare moment in this nation’s history,” one excerpt says. “Where our president isn’t up to the moment. Where our president lacks the moral authority to lead. Where our president has more in common with George Wallace than George Washington.”
The planned speech echoes comparisons made by Biden in October 2018 comparing Trump to the segregationist senator, Wallace. “No president has ever led by fear. Not Lincoln. Not Roosevelt. Not Kennedy. Not Reagan. This president is more like George Wallace than George Washington,” Biden said six months before officially launching his presidential campaign at a Florida rally.
