Biden Bluntly Answers Trump's 'Are You Better Off' Question With Scathing Video
The Republican Party’s continued attempt to take advantage of what they must perceive as a collective case of amnesia got a blunt video response from President Joe Biden on Wednesday.
Recently, some of Donald Trump’s most sycophantic supporters, such as his daughter-in-law and RNC co-chair, Lara Trump, and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), have attempted to make a case for his reelection by asking the rhetorical question, “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Even Trump asked a similar question in a post on his Truth Social platform earlier this week.
Although Ronald Reagan successfully used the question in a 1980 presidential debate with President Jimmy Carter, it hasn’t really worked that well for Republicans this time around.
That’s because when many people think back to 2020, they immediately remember the lockdowns, isolation and deaths that happened in the U.S. because of the COVID-19 pandemic ― which all occurred under Trump’s watch.
So, it’s understandable that Biden referenced this in a candid video response to Trump’s question on Thursday.
The 40-second video, which is captioned, “Donald, I’m glad you asked,” showed the lowlights of that year, including Trump suggesting injecting bleach as a solution to the coronavirus, toilet paper shortages and corpses being loaded onto freezer trucks.
The scathing visuals are accompanied by quotes of Trump praising his action, refusing to take responsibility for how he handled the virus and responding, “It is what it is,” when reminded about all the deaths occurring at the time.
Donald, I’m glad you asked. pic.twitter.com/janV4f4L3p
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) March 21, 2024
Many people on X, formerly Twitter, appreciated the memory-jogging video ― even though it resurfaced bad memories.
Honestly, seeing “how it was” under trump is still a PTSD trigger. Holy hell it was awful. https://t.co/ZjYg4667aM
— themocollins (@THEMOCOLLINS) March 21, 2024
This is an excellent ad and I am glad that the Biden folks are now hitting Trump where it hurts - by reminding amnesiac Americans just how uniquely bad/chaotic/traumatic/cruel his presidency was. Especially on Covid. https://t.co/tO2k5OChdI
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) March 21, 2024
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 https://t.co/ftmPfWRzJr
— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) March 21, 2024
I’ll never forget how awful it was and how much was taken from us because deeply unserious and unqualified people were running the government. https://t.co/KxdcD0npGH
— Will Watson (@will_watson) March 21, 2024
Four years ago the country shut down because of Trump despicably allowing COVID-19 to spread like wildfire!
I will never forget that I was unable to be with my sister during her last months alive fighting pancreatic cancer because of Trump. Never. 🤬 https://t.co/9eH8DwNnC5— Helen Duda (@PERsisterER) March 21, 2024
Four years ago I was isolated from family and friends and ordering groceries via an app and wiping them down with disinfectant before bringing them home https://t.co/N2JkSoNKFR
— Pat Fuller Democracy is on the line🟧🟦☮️ (@bannerite) March 21, 2024
“Are you better off than you were four years ago?” is such a stupid campaign message.
If they were going to plagiarize Reagan they should’ve (like Reagan) waited until the week before the election to use this line.
Now they’re going to get hammered for the rest of the year. https://t.co/rl0QP3zC0I— Greg Hyde, Esq. (@StatGuyGreg) March 21, 2024
Biden absolutely has Trump dead-to-rights on this “are you better off than four years ago” argument.
Biden and Democrats were the chief lockdown pushers, but they have now hung Covid on Trump because he has stupidly continued touting his Covid record. https://t.co/o1oY93ZyEk— Cryptid Politics (pro-DeSantis) 🇺🇸🐊 (@CryptidPolitics) March 21, 2024
