President Joe Biden made a rapid reference to Donald Trump on Thursday ― then simply as shortly dismissed him.
“I had an enormous struggle with the previous president, and perhaps future president,” he mentioned at an occasion in Philadelphia, referring to the 2020 marketing campaign battle.
The group jeered the reference to Trump.
“Bless me father,” Biden mentioned, then made the signal of the cross:
The signal of the cross has a variety of meanings, from a blessing to a way of heading off evil. Biden, a Catholic, makes use of it occasionally in a joking method, as he additionally did final week when referring to conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
He requested the gang in the event that they remembered her jeers throughout the State of the Union tackle, when she interrupted his speech with shouts of “liar!”
The group laughed, and Biden made the signal of the cross.
Biden doesn’t like to say Trump, and infrequently doesn’t use his identify when he does.
At one level, Biden referred to him merely as “the previous man.”