“What appalls me is we’re now telling people it’s okay to laugh at stuttering,” a Biden consultant says.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made fun of President Biden's stutter during a rally Saturday at the Forum River Center in Rome, Ga. , on Saturday, the latest in a series of insults he has hurled at his rival but one that disability advocates regard as a demeaning form of bullying.Trump asked the crowd sarcastically if Biden would “bring the country t-t-t-together” while talking about Biden’s State of the Union address.
“It is a form of dehumanization behind a mask of humor,” Fountain said. “It reinforces the idea that Trump and his followers are in a particular ‘in’ group and those who critique them are not only outsiders not only wrong, but they’re weak.”Others such as Michael Sheehan, who consults on political speeches for Biden including the State of the Union, said the worst part of Trump’s mocking of Biden’s stutter is listening to the audience laugh.
As someone who stuttered as a kid and still stammers a bit when I'm tired or nervous, this video of Biden talking to a kid who stutters gets me every time. He actually cares about people, is capable of empathy, and kindness. Meanwhile, Trump mocked Biden's stutter this weekend.
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