Trump expressed sympathy for Biden upon learning that he fell after delivering the commencement speech at the Air Force Academy.
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty ImagesFormer President Donald Trump on the campaign trail in Iowa Thursday expressed sympathy for President Joe Biden upon learning that he fell after delivering the commencement speech at the Air Force Academy.
“He actually fell down? Well I hope he wasn’t hurt. I hope he wasn’t hurt,” Trump said after being told. He then recalled his own concerns of falling after the delivering a commencement speech at the West Point in 2021. “You gotta be careful about that. You gotta be careful about that, because you don’t want that. Even if you have to tiptoe down a ramp,” he said, referring to his own walk down a ramp at West Point:
That was the best speech I think I’ve ever made, and it was pouring rain and it was horrible and cold and windy and they have a ramp that’s pure like an ice skating rink, and it was like 25 feet long, and I’m talking to the general — he has boots on, you know, big combat boots and they’re rubber soles — I have nice leather [shoes], and I say, ‘You know what general, if I grab you, you just get ready because I got this stupid ramp that someone put up and there’s no stairs,’ and so I tip-toed...
“If he fell, that’s too bad,” he added. “That’s a bad place to fall, when you’re making a — I think it was at the Air Force Academy. That’s not inspiring.”"I hope he wasn't hurt. I hope he wasn't hurt. […] You don't want that. Even if you have to tip-toe down a ramp, you gotta tip-toe…"
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