Former President Trump mocked President Biden in a post online after the president accidentally said his vice president was Trump in his press conference Thursday.
In response to the first question in his solo, high stakes press conference after the NATO summit, Biden mistakenly referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as Trump.
“Look, I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president [if I didn’t] think she was not qualified to be president,” Biden said.
In a post on his Truth Social site, Trump mocked the president’s gaffe.
“Crooked Joe begins his ‘Big Boy’ Press Conference with, ‘I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president, though I think she was not qualified to be president,” Trump posted.
“Great job, Joe!” he said.
Biden’s flub was in response to a question from Reuter reporter Jeff Mason, who asked the president about what concerns he has about Harris’ ability to beat Trump if she were at the top of the ticket this fall.
The president is facing increasing calls from Democrats to step aside and allow someone else to run after his poor debate performance sparked concern within the party.
Biden has insisted that he is staying in the race and will not step aside until his team tells him he absolutely cannot beat Trump.
Later in the press conference, he applauded Harris on her handling of reproductive rights and her ability to handle “almost any issue.” Still, Biden said no one is more fit to take on Trump than him.
The president responded to Trump in a post on social media platform X.
“By the way: Yes, I know the difference,” Biden posted. “One’s a prosecutor, and the other’s a felon.”
The Trump-Harris comment came shortly after Biden mistakenly referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as President Putin when introducing him at a NATO event.
