Ding ding ding! Trump vs Biden, the debate rematch, is on – so brace yourselves for the worst presidential tussle in history! This time, ladies and gentlemen, they’re four years older.
The truth is Trump does not have a very good record in presidential debates
In 2020, in the first presidential debate of a Covid-riven election, the two old men set a new low for American politics by shouting over each other like drunk slobs in a bar.
Trump, who may have been suffering from Covid himself, decided to attack Joe Biden for among other things his handling of the swine flu in 2009, when Joe was vice-president. ‘Don’t ever use the word smart with me,’ was probably Trump’s most memorable line. ‘Because there’s nothing smart about you, Joe.’
Biden probably came out just about on top that September night in Cleveland because he said what most people were thinking: ‘Will you just shut up, man?’ But Lincoln-Douglas this was not – and 81-year-old Biden sounds ridiculous today as he tries to puff himself up like some macho pugilist: ‘Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020,’ he says.
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