Joe Biden irritates with bizarre campaign appearance

During an appearance in Pennsylvania, US President Joe Biden puts on a Trump cap. Now observers are wondering what the bizarre gesture could mean.

Interested observers were amazed when they suddenly found a picture of US President Joe Biden on social media on Wednesday that didn’t seem to fit the Democrat at all. There stood the 81-year-old wearing a fiery red “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) cap of his political opponent Donald Trump and smiling broadly into the cameras. A bizarre appearance.

Right-wing commentators on social media were delighted with the recording, and numerous Trump supporters also grinned with satisfaction and welcomed the incumbent, who had now “finally jumped on the Trump bandwagon,” as one user put it. Even the ex-president’s team thanked the man in the White House: “Thanks for the support, Joe!” wrote a Trump campaign employee.

For the Democrats and their presidential candidate Kamala Harris, such images are pure poison. Harris’s campaign had gained considerable momentum through the TV debate on Tuesday evening (local time). In the opinion of the majority of Americans, Biden’s vice president had clearly won the battle of speeches against Trump, according to the polls. And now this.

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A compromising photo that once again makes Joe Biden look extremely unflattering. As if he no longer knew what he was doing. But are the pictures of the president wearing a Trump hat even real? And above all: in what context were they taken?

In fact, Biden and Kamala Harris traveled to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday to attend a memorial service for the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. On that occasion, Biden also visited a fire station whose members were among the first to arrive at the crash site of United Flight 93, a plane hijacked by Islamist terrorists.

There were apparently Trump fans among the firefighters and one of the volunteers wore a cap with the MAGA logo. In a short speech at the fire station, Biden argued that the country must grow together again and that people should reach out to each other, even across party lines.

A Trump supporter then took the opportunity and offered Biden his MAGA cap, as several US media outlets reported. The 81-year-old spontaneously took it and put the hat on. Shortly afterwards, clips of the gesture went viral; the internet was full of malicious comments.

A White House official later admitted, somewhat sheepishly, that the president had put on the hat in a “bipartisan gesture” – after a man with a similar intention had asked him to do so. “He wore it for only a very short time,” the president’s statement said.

It is doubtful whether the Trump supporter really acted in the same cross-party “spirit” as the Biden team would have us believe. In one of the videos of the action circulating on social networks, the man in the cap can be heard making a derogatory remark to Biden. According to the translation, he says: “Now I’m proud of you, you old fart!” However, the Trump fan uses a different word in the English original (“you old fart”). A pretty rude insult.

Previously, those present at the fire station had literally encouraged Biden to put on the cap: “put it on, put it on,” can be heard on the videos. “Put it on, put it on.” When Biden complies with the request, there is loud laughter. The extent to which the possibly ailing health of the incumbent president might have played a role in the action is already the subject of online discussions.

Some X users suspect that Biden is no longer in control of his senses and that is why he has allowed himself to be made fun of by Trump supporters. For Kamala Harris, the recordings are likely to be a setback in her efforts to prevent Donald Trump from returning to the White House. The Trump campaign has already quipped: “Kamala Harris delivered such a poor performance in the TV debate that Joe Biden is already putting on Trump caps.”