“Gaffe machine” Joe Biden generated a new mini-scandal Thursday, as the former vice president made an unfortunate slip-up during an Iowa speech
the locations of the weekend's mass shootings, referring to the “tragic events in Houston today and also in Michigan the day before” before correcting himself.
The Trump campaign quickly seized on the 2020 challenger's most recent gaffe, as Rapid Response Directorout a clip of Biden's comments Thursday with the comment, “Yikes...have fun mitigating that one,” before Presidentthen weighed in on the comments Friday. “Look, Joe is not playing with a full deck,” Trump said Friday, resorting to a familiar insult that has also been leveled at the president himself. “He made that comment and I said ‘whoa.
Trump's own history of racist comments makes it unlikely the president fully comprehended the insensitivity of Biden's remark, of course, and his Biden comments come a few days after Biden brazenly attacked Trump's racism in a speech, saying the president has “fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation.
Most of Biden's opponents in the 2020 field have so far refrained from attacking the frontrunner candidate for his mistaken comment, save for Mayor
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