By Marlyn Montilla
08 Mar 2024, 09:39 AM EST
Former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump made use of social media, specifically Truth Social, to comment haphazardly and in capital letters on President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address live.
The New York tycoon wrote a considerable number of messages criticizing his Democratic rival in a mocking tone and repeating critical messages against whom he has named “Corrupt Joe.”
“He is angry and crazy”, “he has better hair in front than in the back”, “he won’t stop coughing” or “who kissed him on the cheek with lipstick?” were some of the messages from the former president, who, However, he also refuted more political issues.
In the Republican’s opinion, the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, only invaded Ukraine, “because he has no respect for Biden” and believed that the war would never have happened during his mandate.
“NATO only became strong, because of ME. “I got the NATO nations to pay more,” he said.
In the speech, Biden made numerous references to Trump, whom he referred to as his “predecessor,” but did not mention him by name, and was particularly harsh on him for putting the country’s democracy at its greatest risk since the Civil War. , after the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to interrupt the transfer of power process.
“The so-called insurrectionists you speak of do not have weapons, they only had a rigged election,” said Trump, who has never accepted his defeat in the 2020 elections against the current US executive.
Likewise, the Republican criticized the Democrat’s push for electric vehicles and reiterated that these cars will soon be manufactured in China.
The former president stated that his predecessor’s immigration policies are a “disaster” and will allow the entry of 5,000 migrants daily.
In this sense, he considered that “migrant violence is the worst wave of crimes in history,” something that was echoed on Capitol Hill when Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene gave him a badge in memory of Laken Riley, a student who recently died at the hands of an irregular immigrant in Georgia.
The violent crime is being used in favor of Republicans to request mass deportations and reiterate that the Democratic president’s policies increase the insecurity of American citizens.
For her part, Alabama Senator Katie Britt repeated that argument after the State of the Union speech and considered that the victim was brutally murdered “by one of those millions of illegals” who have arrived in the United States.
“Our communities are more insecure because of Biden’s border policies,” said Senator Britt, a promising young Republican.
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