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Former President Donald Trump was at a campaign event in Coralville, Iowa, when he did a parody reenactment of President Joe Biden attempting to leave a stage, and the crowd loved it.
Trump then remarked on Biden’s perceived cognitive decline while noting that he passed a cognitive exam while in office.
“I took a physical, and I passed with flying colors,” the former president said. “And I took a cognitive exam. I said, ‘Doctor, give me anything you want. I want to take it.’ I think, actually, if you’re running for president I think you should be forced to take it. They say it’s not constitutional, so instead of — look, we love our constitution, but look at what we have in office. This guy can not pass a cognitive exam. But I took a cognitive exam, and I aced it. He said I aced it. Thank you very much, doctor.”
“I would know if it was going bad,” Trump continued. “I would tell you. If it’s going bad, I’ll be the first to know. You know who would be the first to know? Front Row Joes would be the first to know. They will tell me. They will say, ‘Sir, we love you. We’ve been here. We’ve gone to 120 rallies, but sir, it’s time for you to pack it in.’ And I would want them. I would want them to say that. I would want them. But I feel that right now, I am sharper than I was 20 years ago, and I don’t know why! I don’t know why. You know, it’s a very funny thing, and a very minor thing, but I am a much better golfer than I was 10 or 15 years ago. It means something. You know, it means something in a certain way.”
But it does not appear that Trump will be stopping any time soon as he continues to annihilate his competition in the polls.
Earlier this month, meanwhile, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said that elections that have taken place around the world indicate that the entire globe, not just the United States, has grown weary of the far left.
He pointed to elections in Argentina, Italy, and Hungary and juxtaposed them with the rising poll numbers of former President Donald Trump to make his case.
“This is about their survival. This is literally the behavior of an entire system, which understands it is on the verge of being destroyed,” the former Speaker said to Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
“They are looking at what happened in Italy and what just happened last week in Argentina. There is a worldwide movement against left-wing radical, socialist values. Look at Hungary. Again and again, average everyday people are saying no, we don’t want this,” the former Speaker said.
“The numbers for Trump right now get bigger and bigger and bigger. I think what you are seeing on the left is desperation that literally is a survival function. We’ve never seen this, maybe the South in 1860. Other than that, I have never seen this level of desperation in American politics, and it will get worse,” he said.
“They have a candidate who is hopeless. If you watch Joe Biden, you know he is not going to win, and they can’t get rid of him. They have a situation where their opponent is getting stronger and better and more disciplined. I think that leads to a very explosive moment in American history,” the former Speaker said.
“Putting him in jail won’t work either. The problem they have got is — I don’t know how it happened, I’m writing a series in American Spectator, I have to confess — I’m not sure how we got to where we are today because it is hard to understand how the modern left somehow went through this permutation, this almost mutant behavior, they are now so radically isolated, and they are losing African Americans and Latinos and in recent polls, they’re losing young Americans and Asian Americans,” he said.
“All the groups they thought they could count on are thinking, ‘These guys are nuts.’ And they are not going to vote for them,” the former Speaker from Georgia said.
“They know they are nuts because of pain, pain in terms of fentanyl and crime, pain in terms of the price of living, and pain in the number of immigrants crossing the border,” he said.
