Sep 13, 2024
Why Would Joe Biden Put On Trump 2024 Hat?!?!
President Joe Biden put on a Trump 2024 hat as a show of unity at a Shanksville, Pa., fire station.
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- There you go.
- Big smile.
And yes, this is not I. That is Joe Biden
smiling, cheesing, being cheered as he
puts on a Trump 2024 hat, a Maga hat.
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He seems happy about it.
If you're wondering why he did this,
why would he give Trump a freebie?
The campaign?
We'll hear the details for you Wednesday.
Anniversary of nine over 11 A solemn day.
Biden was visiting a fire station
in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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The location spoke about how both
political parties were united after nine
over 11, and how we need
that kind of bipartisanship plan again.
Okay, lots of nostalgia.
It led to this interaction
with a Trump supporter.
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Now watch this.
- I'll give you my presidential hat.
- Presidential seal on it.
Got an autograph?
Oh, sure. I'll autograph.
Yeah. You remember your name?
I don't remember my name. I'm slow.
Sure, sure. The old part.
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- Yeah, I know, man, I'm an old guy.
- And you're an old fart.
I know you wouldn't know about that.
What about being old? Oh, I know.
There you go, man.
I got, I need, I need that hat.
Got my autograph? Hell, no.
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You know my name. Put it on.
Come on. I ain't going that far.
Yeah.
There you go. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Hey, I'm proud of you now.
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You remember knowing dogs and cats.
Can't wait to hear
what both you think about.
I would have if you get boxed in.
I mean, he called him an old fart.
It could have been worse.
Put it on backwards or something.
I don't know why you're doing this, but I
want to hear what you guys have to say.
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But of course.
Trump campaign wasted no time.
This was a layup. Okay, this is nothing.
Let's put it up.
They were on social media.
The war room strategy here.
Thanks for the support, Joe.
I just why do I
if I work at the white House?
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Why do I have to explain this?
Why are you doing this?
Trump campaign also posted
about the interaction on TikTok
1.5 million likes so far Thursday.
Charlamagne tha God designated
Joe Biden his donkey of the day.
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Okay, watch that.
After your vice president has a phenomenal
debate against the former president of the
United States of America, Donald Trump.
You missed the president decide
to put on a hat that says Trump 2024.
Now, I'm not the highest grade
of weed in the dispensary,
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but that doesn't seem like a show
of support for your vice president.
To me, this race is going to be tight.
So when you know you need that kind
of turnout, why is the sitting president
would you wear a hat in support of a
person who is the op of your running mate.
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He is an OP in regards to your
administration, you President Biden.
You call him a threat to democracy? Okay.
If he's a threat to democracy,
why are you wearing paraphernalia
that supports him being president in 2024?
You said you did it as a gesture of unity.
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You can't call someone
a threat to democracy
and then wear their paraphernalia
and want to be unified with them.
I'm with the guard on this one.
I don't understand if this is.
They keep screaming that this is the most
important election of our lifetime.
This is going to decide whether we're
a democracy or something else.
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He said he'll be a dictator on day one.
Why are you doing this?
And I understand that there can
only be one president at a time.
But if it's that important,
this election, I need him to stay indoors.
I understand nine over 11.
You know that he cannot be unsupervised.
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He needs to stay inside
because this is a distraction.
It's an utter distraction.
He thought that was a good idea.
Thank you. First, maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe this will help her
to show the contrast.
But I don't understand
why he's doing this.
Yeah, I'm not sure he knows
why he's doing this.
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Look.
That sounded like what Trump
said at the debate.
I don't think he knows
what he said either.
Yeah, yeah.
Go ahead. I'm sorry.
I remember when Democrats were saying
he should still be the candidate.
Jesus. Yeah.
Okay, so look, guys, you watch the video
of him in the room, and it's it's fine.
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It's an elderly man having trying
to relate to those voters.
It was past the election.
I said, let him go, man.
No big deal.
They all had a good time in the room.
He's being amiable.
And then once the election is over,
bygones be bygones.
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Everybody wears each other's hats.
No problem.
Okay.
But in this day and age, you have
to know that if you put if you're Biden
and you put on a Trump hat,
that that is going to go supernova viral,
there's going to be videos,
there's going to be pictures.
People are not going to know the context.
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They're just going to see you in the hat
and think that you support Donald Trump,
and you think that the right wing
is not going to say, oh, look at that.
Even Biden has problems
with Kamala Harris.
That's why he put on a Trump hat.
They're not going
to show the actual video.
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They're just going to show you the picture
and put in whatever title that they want
and whatever description that they want.
So it is very unsavvy to do this,
but that's because the brothers
stuck in like the 1970s.
He's like, oh, by the way,
by the time the Idaho Statesman gets it,
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it will be past the election anyway.
No, brother, it'll go viral
in about 2.5 seconds.
Yeah, I think you're right.
He's so old, man. He did.
He's just in there doing whatever.
He's just sitting there doing whatever.
But I think that, But luckily,
I don't think this is really going to move
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the needle at all in any type of way.
I think Trump's such a disaster.
And I think Kamala's running
an excellent campaign.
Nothing's perfect,
but I think her campaign is is very good.
But, I'm not concerned.
I personally am not concerned
about this damaging her campaign.
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I think it was a silly thing to do.
And I think that he looks like
an 80 something year old man.
I mean, that's how people to me
are going to see it.
Definitely not savvy. Definitely silly.
But I think that in a couple of days
nobody's going to.
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Maybe I but I just see it this way.
He is old now, but he wasn't always old
and he's been doing this kind
of disruptive thing like, you know,
a kid whose hormones are raging.
They just became a teenager.
He did it with, you know, the hot mic
and Obamacare when, you know, he came
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out and announced it and, you know,
had had he walked out when Obama announced
that, you know, Osama bin Laden's dead,
he would have done it then, too.
He talked about 711.
He's just like doing too much.
And it's one joke, too many.
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And I think that if the election is
that important, you have to protect him.
Give him work at his desk.
Put him on the phone with,
you know, world leaders.
Goodbye tour, if you will.
But this is just.
We don't need the distraction.
We don't need that.
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And I think that it's a way to paint
the Democratic Party as a the party
of fringe a little nutty, a little quirky
household pets, whatever.
I just think, and I feel sorry for him
and everything that's perhaps happened.
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Maybe I do, maybe I don't.
But don't you think that he they got
to have a strategy for him?
As you say, Jackson,
the campaign is going so well.
They've got to get their uncle, Uncle Joe.
Well, luckily,
it's only a few months left.
Yeah.
Give him some keys or something
to to rattle or something like that,
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I mean, I but luckily for everybody,
even for me, that may be so.
But look, we on a bonus episode,
you can cut that out, but, But, I mean,
luckily, there's only a few months left.
I'll definitely say that.
And I think that clearly he's he's done,
you know, I mean,
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he's he's literally done,
but also I don't I don't think he's really
thinking about these types of things.
So hopefully whoever is surrounding him,
whoever is on his team
kind of took note of that.
So that next time he does anything,
they're like, okay, let's let you know.
Let's let's not do this.
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Let's not do X, Y, and Z, maybe keep
the cameras down, stuff like that.
Yeah.
But yeah, I think it was silly
and he shouldn't have done it.
So last couple of things
I actually agree with both of you guys.
I agree with Jackson
that it's not that important.
They'll get past it.
She's doing great.
But I agree with Sharon.
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It's not a smart thing to do.
Charlemagne's right.
Sharon's right.
Let's, you know, let's let's have him
spend more time in the Oval Office.
Presidenting.
And and then Charlemagne, of course,
was also right
that he shouldn't be the nominee.
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Guys, imagine if he was still
running against Trump right now.
He would be talking about a landslide
of epic proportions and and so the folks
who wanted to keep him in the race.
I mean, just remember who was honest
with you guys and who misled you.
All right, last thing, what was the Idaho
paper that I made up a second ago?
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Did anybody remember the Idaho
or something like that?
- What did you say something like?
- I think you said the Idaho Statesman.
Yeah, the Idaho Statesman, I think so.
Yep.
So the reason I was looking down before
is I looked up papers in Idaho
and we got the Idaho Press, the Times,
News Post Register, the Idaho Statesman.
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It exists. It exists.
So and and that
and they're going to have the story
about Biden wearing the hat in December.
So Biden's right about that.
- It wasn't easy.
- You know, it's not easy to handle.
I remember when I was a young reporter,
I think I was in Miami,
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and I was doing a very serious story,
and a gentleman inebriated came up
and, like, tickled me or something.
And I think I segued out
and called myself, you know, I said,
you know, signing off, sharing weed.
So, you know, I it's easy for me to be,
you know, Monday morning
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quarterbacking this thing.
If somebody's in your face
calling you old fart.
And, you know,
the guy was perhaps harmless, but it would
have freaked me out, and I don't know.
Well, how should he have handled it?
What should he have done in that?
He's being called an old fart.
People are cheering.
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He's not winning the day
with this MAGA supporter.
What should he have done?
Oh, no.
No, that's easy because I've
done it many times before.
Sharon.
Not many times, actually.
Only two times that.
I thought it crossed the line.
So normally I take pictures with everyone
and if they say, hey, I'm Maga,
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do you mind taking a picture?
I don't mind taking a picture with you.
I don't, that's okay.
There's nothing wrong with that.
But, one time, Enrique Enrique Tarrio, the
leader of the Proud Boys, wanted to take
a picture with me, and I was like, no.
And that turned out to be a good idea.
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He later got arrested
and is in federal penitentiary right now.
And then after the I think the parking
lot of the RNC and somebody wanted to put
paraphernalia up, like supporting Trump.
I was like, no, I'm not doing that.
Right. So there's a boundary here.
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And by the way, I was super friendly.
I was like, hey, brother,
look, we disagree.
No problem.
We were, you know,
very cordial, very friendly.
That's just my line.
And then his friend got a picture
of us talking together
while the guy is holding up the shirt.
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I was like, I don't even mind that.
As long as I'm not going to da.
Right. Right.
And so that's why for Biden, it should
have been relatively easy to say,
I appreciate your brother, but no thanks.
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