President Joe Biden used his Labor Day address to attack his predecessor, Donald Trump, by claiming that the famed real estate mogul “didn’t build a damn thing.”
Speaking in the swing state of Pennsylvania — a heavy working-class state — during a Labor Day rally, President Biden said that infrastructure became a “punchline” under Trump.
“Guess what? The great real estate builder, the last guy here, he didn’t build a damn thing,” said Biden. “Under my predecessor, ‘Infrastructure Week’ became a punchline. On my watch, infrastructure means a decade, and it’s a headline.”
Biden even went as far as to say that Trump exported jobs to China, even though the former president took a firm stance against exporting jobs to foreign countries during his presidency, especially during the 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton. The former president also imposed tariffs on Chinese goods.
“When the last guy was here, you were shipping jobs to China. Now we’re bringing jobs home from China,” Biden claimed. “When the last guy was here, your pensions were at risk. We helped save millions of pensions with your help.”
“When the last guy was here, he looked at the world from Park Avenue,” he added. “I look at it from Scranton, Pennsylvania. I look at it from Claymont, Delaware. Not a joke.”
President Donald Trump speaks about trade at U.S. Steel’s Granite City Works in Granite City, Illinois, on July 26, 2018. (Saul Loeb /AFP/Getty Images)
It should also be noted that Biden criticized the former president’s decision to shut down travel from China during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
“We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering. He is the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health emergency,” he said at the time.
The Biden campaign, however, claimed that he simply issued a general criticism of President Trump at the time and did not intend to say that the travel bans were xenophobic.
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