As former president Donald Trump tried to throw jabs at President Joe Biden during a Virginia rally by calling him “the worst president … who is cognitively impaired, in no condition to lead,” he mixed up the name of the sitting president with past leader Barack Obama – who hasn’t served as commander-in-chief in seven years.
Trump’s gaffe on Saturday night was not the first time the previous president, who is once again running for the highest office in the United States amid a slew of legal issues, has made the Biden-Obama mixup on the campaign trail — but he has said it’s all “intentional.”
Trump received a courtroom victory on Monday after the United States Supreme Court ruled that he can’t be removed from Colorado’s primary election ballot due to his actions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
The Supreme Court also recently decided to take up Trump’s immunity appeal and consider whether he can face criminal prosecution for his attempts to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election — a move which delays the start of his trial on federal charges in connection with the Jan. 6 events, according to The Hill.
The former president’s mistaking of one world leader over the other seemed to hush his supporters over the weekend.
Trump said during the Saturday rally, “As you know, crooked Joe Biden and the radical left thugs who have weaponized law enforcement to arrest their leading political opponent – and leading by a lot, including Obama.”
He continued to silence in the background, “I’ll tell you what, you take a look at Obama and take a look at some of the things that he’s done – this is the same thing. The country is very divided. And we did with Obama, we won an election that everyone said couldn’t be won,” a clip from the speech from MSNBC showed.
Trump’s confusion between the sitting and previous president did not end there, as he also made the…
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