DAILY BEAST
President Joe Biden indulged in some good old-fashioned Trump-bashing along the campaign trail on Tuesday, needling his rival about his media company’s plunging shares during a speech in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
“You know, I have to say, if Trump’s stock in Truth Social—his company—drops any lower, he might do better under my tax plan than his,” Biden said to a surge of laughter and applause. “Possibly.”
[…] The president was careful to frame his chief rival as a bootlicker to his billionaire friends whose tax plan shafted ordinary Americans during the previous administration.
“Donald Trump looks at the world differently than you and me,” Biden said. “He wakes up in the morning at Mar-a-Lago thinking about himself. How he can help his billionaire friends gain power and control, and force their extreme agenda on the rest of us.”
Trump “embodies” the trickle-down economic policies touted by Republicans that “failed the middle class,” Biden said. “Folks,” he added, “he’s coming for your money, your health care, your Social Security. And we’re not going to let it happen.”
Even as Biden attacked Trump’s “Mar-a-Lago vision,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee was just a few hours away in New York, where he spent the day largely nodding off (again) in a Manhattan courtroom. The contrast—Biden pounding the trail, Trump stuck facing trial—was striking.
