Jill Biden Slams Query On Husband's Gaffes: A Word 'You Cannot Even Say' After Trump
Jill Biden has no time for people calling out her husband, Democratic presidential Joe Biden, and his mistakes “after Donald Trump.”
The former second lady of the U.S. talked to CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday and refused to entertain a question about gaffes made by her spouse.
Tapper said to Biden: “Your husband has been known to make the occasional gaffe.”
Immediately, she shut him down: “Oh, you can’t even go there. After Donald Trump, you cannot even say the word gaffe.”
She went on to say, “Nope. Done. It’s gone,” leading Tapper to ask, “The gaffe issue is over?”
“Over, so over,” she responded.
CNN’s @jaketapper to Jill Biden: “Your husband has been known to make the occasional gaffe…”
Biden: “You can’t even go there. After Donald Trump you cannot even say the word gaffe.” #CNNSOTUpic.twitter.com/bBInkVhm6L— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) September 27, 2020
As Tuesday’s first debate between the two candidates has drawn near, Trump increasingly has been making disparaging remarks about Joe Biden’s mental state and age (the two are only a few years apart; Trump is 74, Biden 77).
In addition to calling his challenger nicknames like “Sleepy Joe” and “Slow Joe,” Trump and his campaign put out an ad asking “Did something happen to Joe Biden?” It compared clips of Biden “verbally stumbling” in 2020 to smoother appearances he made in 2015 and 2016.
Last week, Trump told supporters in Pittsburgh that Biden “doesn’t know where the hell he is” and “doesn’t know he’s alive.” At another campaign rally Saturday night in Pennsylvania, Trump called Biden a “dumb guy.”
And in a tweet this weekend, the president questioned whether Biden is on drugs.
