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US PRESIDENT JOE Biden briefly donned one of Donald Trump’s red hats today during a visit to Pennsylvania to mark the anniversary of 9/11.
A White House spokesperson has described the incident as a show of “bipartisan unity”.
Biden was in Pennsylvania with his vice president and the democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris for a visit to the site where Flight 93 crashed.
United Airlines Flight 93 was one of four planes hijacked on the morning of 9/11.
The plane crashed after passengers and crew fought back against the hijackers.
It’s believed the hijackers planned to crash the plane into the US Capitol building in Washington DC.
While in Pennsylvania, Biden briefly sported a Trump hat.
“Thanks for the support, Joe!” posted Trump’s official campaign account on X.
The Trump ‘War Room’ account added that “Kamala did so bad in last night’s debate, Joe Biden just put on a Trump hat”.
🚨BREAKING: Kamala did so bad in last night's debate, Joe Biden just put on a Trump hat. pic.twitter.com/OzgCRKIbKp
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 11, 2024
However, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said the move was a “gesture” of “bipartisan unity”.
Bates said that while at the Shanksville Fire Station, Biden spoke about “the country’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get that back”.
“As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS [Biden] should put on his Trump cap,” said Bates, who added that Biden “briefly wore it”.
At the Shanksville Fire Station, @POTUS spoke about the country's bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that.
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) September 11, 2024
As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS should put on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it. https://t.co/7VKZnkVMY7
Biden, 81, who was replaced by Harris on the Democratic ticket after withdrawing from the race in July, has repeatedly characterised Trump as an existential threat to US democracy.
Several commenters also noted that the episode came the day after the US presidential debate, in which Trump claimed that Biden “hates” Harris.
BREAKING: Trump tells Kamala Harris to her face that Biden “does not like her.” pic.twitter.com/vRmEziK7uS
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) September 11, 2024
On the debate stage last night, which was the first time Harris and Trump had met, Harris initiated a handshake between the two.
They shook hands again today when they stood near one another at New York’s 9/11 memorial.
Wearing commemorative blue ribbons, they watched with other assembled dignitaries, including Biden, as the names of the almost 3,000 victims of the attacks on the Twin Towers were read out.
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Great to see SF and Mary Lou are finished and she is getting the bullet in the coming weeks.
@Trump24: You’re in the wrong country, that’s the USA.
@Trump24: Like when you said 2 weeks ago they wouldnt get near FFG either?
Jesus, enough with FG’s obsession with sinn fein. I don’t like them myself & have never voted for them but enough is enough.
@Matt D: Someone senior in FG needs to take this lad aside & explain that there is a time to bite your tongue, a time to listen, a time to show humility & a time to speak honestly. I am no fan of SF, but surely, he could have let this go by, counting isn’t even completed ! His constant need for making news feeds & media is actually a turn off for people & he needs a little bit of reflection as his own cock ups have cost his colleagues & his party, many seats. Who is advising this lad, I know he has surrounded himself with people from Irish MSM, but Harris & his party & actually SF as well, might be better off getting ordinary people in to advise them, as they can’t seem to connect with ordinary people or how to deliver a message. Get some real life advisors Simon.
Just saying Sinn Fein makes him and Micheal Martin stiff.
It would be satisfying to see FG suffer, given their lies during the recession at a point when the people of Ireland were at their most vulnerable, and persistence with austerity taxes when the country is awash with excess tax take year after year.
Hopefully Gerry parks beside Simon every day in the Dail and smiles at him going in. Will be hilarious!
Looks like the “FFG” line has been overplayed. In so far as that entity exists, it seems on course to be by far the largest party.
@Terry McClatchey: Insofar as it exists, it will be the largest party? A politician wouldn’t put it better
They Don’t Get It…Reign In RTE and the Energy Companies. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
That’s right Harris keep snipping….
Wonder will Martin be dumb enough to say for a second time after an election he wont jump into bed with their partners for life FG or does FF and its leadership actually have the cop on to admit they are the same two cheeks and one wont survive without the other any more
Harris can spin this anyway he wants the knives will still be out for his tea boy backside……his gaff a week ago almost backfired badly, even leaky leo wouldnt have done that
@Patrick Newell: he should get no votes,
Haven’t seen a Fianna Gael surge either and all those massive problems will still be there if independents and parties are willing to sell their souls
Great to see all the Fianna Fail men getting elected, the country could do with real men like Fianna Fail men
@Fintan Pox: What country? FF has and continues to destroy Ireland
@Fintan Pox: your surname is apt
@Fintan Pox: good man the extra strength glue really taking ya to another level of deluded
@Mayo seem to be the football equivalent of Waterfo:
We’ve never had it so good.
@Dave G Doe: how does a party that lost the election become a winner in literally anyone’s eyes ? How? They came third.
During the American election we were saying if Trump was the best that they had to offer they are mad. Now the Irish people have voted Harris AGAIN
This gimp scraped through on the 15th count in 2020. Can anybody who voted him please tell me what he has done in 4 years to deserve this huge vote?. It shows ,once again, how affluent voters truly do not give a damn about the rest of people and the bigger issues this clown and his party have caused. Homelessness,illegal immigration, hospital lists and young adults still living at home due to FFG policies prohibiting them ever buying a house are things that don’ bother his supporters. How stupid people really are.
Ya fine gael and fianna fails vote are 50% down in last 10 years, they had to join up and when the rest of the idiots die off they’ll have a lot less votes thank god. Wel done Ireland ye are clueless
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