Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday used his first campaign rally since last month’s presidential debate to deride the mental faculties of US President Joe Biden, whom he said is “mentally incompetent” for another term.
The Republican presidential nominee held a campaign event on Tuesday at his golf club in the city of Doral, a neighbor of Miami, where, contrary to what was speculated, he did not reveal his vice presidential candidate for the November elections, and chose to criticize Biden’s performance in the debate.
At around 8:00 p.m., an hour later than announced, Trump took the stage dressed in a blue suit and a red cap bearing his campaign slogan (“Make America Great Again”), to the tune of Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” the song with which he usually begins his rallies.
In front of and behind him stretched a diverse red tide, with Hispanics but also many white Americans, a large percentage of whom were close to retirement, although there was no shortage of young people, including families with small children.
Beginning of the speech
As expected, Trump began his speech with allusions to last month’s debate, which has sparked a crisis within the Democratic Party following the poor performance of Democrat Biden and which has led many lawmakers from that side to ask the president to step aside.
The Republican mocked the “complete chaos” and division among Democrats, who he said do not know who is the more “unsuitable” presidential candidate, Biden, 81, or Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump took the opportunity to challenge his opponent in next November’s election to an 18-hole golf game at his Doral resort, and promised that if he lost, he would donate $1 million to the charity of Biden’s choice.
“Tonight I’m offering Joe the chance to redeem himself before the world,” boasted the former president (2017-2021), who added that Biden is “mentally incompetent” to continue in the White House.
His thousands of supporters, who turned up despite the high temperatures and began filling the venue from the moment the doors opened at 2:00 p.m. local time, thunderously applauded each of the jokes he made at Biden’s expense.
Followers
If there is one thing that characterizes his followers, it is their effusiveness, and this is what they expressed in response to the promises he has already announced in previous rallies, including that of carrying out the “largest deportation in the history” of the United States, or that of stopping the entry of terrorists.
“We are going to restore freedom of expression in our country,” he said in the midst of a practically apocalyptic description of the country, marked by the border, economic and social crisis following the “disaster” created by the Biden Administration, in his opinion “the worst president of the United States.”
He devoted a large part of the speech to criticizing the “hunt” he has been subjected to by the American justice system (he faces four legal proceedings) and even pointed out that the gangster Al Capone was less accused than he was, in addition to once once more calling the accusations once morest him “electoral interference.”
He did not reveal the name of his running mate, but during his speech he had words of praise for Florida Senator Marco Rubio, one of Trump’s possible picks to accompany him in his race for a second presidential term.
The Republican is planning another rally this week in Pennsylvania, a key state if he wants to win the election for the White House.
Washington / EFE
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2024-07-11 14:41:31