President Donald Trump slammed former Vice President Joe Biden on June 11, calling him mentally weak.
“I heard Biden who is a loser. I mean look, Joe never got more than 1 percent,” Trump told reporters in Washington, referring to Biden’s two failed presidential runs.
“It looks like he’s failing, it looks like his friends from the left are going to overtake him pretty soon.”
“I’d rather run against, I think, Biden than anybody. I think he’s the weakest mentally and I think Joe is weak mentally. The others have much more energy,” Trump said. “I call him ‘1 percent Joe’ because until Obama came along he didn’t do very well.”
The president made the remarks before traveling to Iowa to speak at a GOP fundraiser in Des Moines. Biden was also set to speak in Iowa on Tuesday.
In one portion of the remarks, Biden said that “America’s farmers have been crushed by his tariff war with China.”
“He thinks he’s being tough. Well, it’s easy to be tough when someone else is feeling the pain. How many farmers across this state and across this nation have had to face the prospect of losing their business, of losing their farm because of Trump’s tariffs? How many have had to stare at the ceiling at night wondering how they’re going to make it?” Biden was going to say.
Biden also claimed that Trump’s tariffs were hurting manufacturing across the country and that his threat of tariffs against Mexico yielded no new deal, despite Trump’s assertation that it did.
“They can’t even figure out how to deal with the fact that they have this great division between the China Sea and the mountains in the east, I mean in the west,” Biden said earlier this month. “They can’t figure out how they’re going to deal with the corruption that exists within the system. I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what, they’re not, they’re not competition for us.”
“I want to say something that we don’t say enough as a party—or a nation: Barack Obama was a President of extraordinary character and decency. He was a president our kids could look up to,” Biden’s speech read. “I was proud of the work we did together—from the Recovery Act to the Auto Rescue to Health Care—but I was most proud of the man he was.”