President Biden slammed former President Donald Trump as someone “you’d like to smack in the a–” while criticizing his policy goals during a campaign trail event in Pennsylvania Saturday.
Speaking to members of the local carpenters’ union in his hometown of Scranton, Biden sought to bolster labor support for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in the final days of the 2024 election.
“I know some of you guys are tempted to think he’s this macho guy …but, I’m serious, these are the kind of guys you’d like to smack in the a–,” Biden said, gritting his teeth.
The puzzling remark came after he told attendees — who clapped and cheered for the 46th president — that “the stakes couldn’t be higher. I come here today to talk about what’s at stake for all of us.”
During his speech — during which he was briefly joined onstage by granddaughter Natalie, the daughter of late son Beau — Biden, 81, warned that Trump and his fellow Republicans were looking to repeal the Affordable Care Act along with the CHIPS Act, which the White House credits as creating 115,000 manufacturing jobs.
Biden also railed that Trump and his party would cut Social Security to cover tax cuts for the wealthy, although the ex-prez has claimed he would “never” do anything that would jeopardize the benefits program.
The octogenarian hasn’t minced his words toward Trump — and his supporters — as Election Day looms.
On Tuesday, the president sparked a flood of headlines after he disparaged Trump’s supporters as “garbage” shortly after the Republican nominee’s Madison Square Garden rally, where a comedian ridiculed Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
Trump’s campaign pounced on Biden’s inflammatory gaffe and the candidate took a ride in a garbage truck — while wearing a garbageman’s neon orange safety vest — after he arrived in Wisconsin for a rally the following day.
The White House meanwhile reportedly nixed a slew of campaign calls that were set to feature Biden in the aftermath.
In October, Biden made waves when he seemed to call for Trump’s imprisonment during a campaign stop in New Hampshire.
“If I said this five years ago, you’d lock me up: We gotta lock him up,” Biden said, before trying to backtrack seconds later: “Politically, lock him up — lock him out, that’s what we’ve got to do.”
