With Joe Biden poised to accept the official nomination for Democratic presidential nominee during tonight’s leg of the Democratic National Convention (Kamala Harris accepted her nomination for Democratic Vice President last night), it comes as no real surprise that Donald Trump is trying his hardest to hit his opponent where he thinks it will hurt most — by holding a MAGA campaign rally in Biden’s birthplace of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Sick burn, right?
But evidently, holding his shindig in the town of his opponent’s birth, 77 years ago, just wasn’t enough for Trump to feel satisfied with himself. Donald had to find a way to get in a good jab at Biden while he was there. And frankly, it seemed as though he picked the weirdest thing he could possibly think of to harp on when he went off on a ridiculous rant about Biden “abandoning” Scranton.
Now, it is certainly true that Biden didn’t stay in Scranton his entire life, but what Trump is conveniently leaving out is the fact that Joe Biden was still very much a minor when his family decided to make the move from Pennsylvania to Delaware.
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Joe Biden was actually 10-years-old when the economic decline of Scranton in the 1950s let his father unable to find steady work in the town, resulting in the Biden family making a move to an apartment in Claymont, Delaware for a few years before ultimately settling into a house in Wilmington, Delaware.
However, those facts did absolutely nothing to staunch Donald Trump from being his usual, ridiculously idiotic self.
Trump began his rant by predicting that Biden will brag about his birthplace of Scranton during his DNC speech tonight before running off on a tangent in which he asserted that Biden abandoned his birthplace and even going so far as to suggest that he wasn’t born where he says he was.
“He abandoned Scranton” — Trump is attacking Joe Biden for leaving Scranton when he was 10 years old, like it was his choice pic.twitter.com/lBl823cxvV
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2020
” You know, he left like 70 years ago,” Trump declared. “He wasn’t born — I view it differently. He’d say he was born here. But he left when he was like 8, 9 or 10. So he left 68 years ago, he left. Long time ago. So I view it differently. He wasn’t born here. He abandoned Scranton!”
Yea. I have no words either.
November can’t get here soon enough.
Featured image via Flickr/Gage Skidmore, under Creative Commons license 2.0
