Trump trolls Biden with ‘White House Senior Living’ advert | EUROtoday

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Donald Trump has trolled President Joe Biden with a spoof advert depicting the White House as a “senior living” institution the place “residents feel like presidents”.

The mock TV business uploaded on Mr Trump’s Instagram web page clipped collectively awkward pictures of the present president on the seaside and consuming meals, ending with him taking an enormous chew from an ice cream.

The 30-second clip features a soft-spoken narrator promoting “delightful activities and outings” and “exquisite housemade meals” over clips of Mr Biden.

The trolling video additionally features a clip that circulated in 2022 of Mr Biden struggling to placed on his jacket whereas his aviator glasses had been falling off his face, together with his spouse, First Lady Jill Biden, stepping in to assist him put it on.

This unflattering second was overlayed with the narrator’s “around-the-clock professional care”, which can be out there at “White House Senior Living”.

The former president has usually made Mr Biden’s age the butt of his “comedic” sketches and rants at his rallies, greedy at low-hanging fruit by calling him “Sleepy Joe”.

However, Mr Trump’s merciless 30-second clip will not be the primary time that considerations over Mr Biden’s 81 years of age have been voiced – with ballot voters and politicians alike being more and more involved in regards to the ageing president.

While the actual fact is that Mr Biden can be 86 if he accomplished a second time period, Mr Trump might have forgotten his personal age when attacking the “senior living” White House.

Mr Biden is a mere three-and-a-half years Mr Trump’s senior, who himself is 77 years outdated.

Polls from final 12 months each had considerations that Mr Biden and Mr Trump had been too outdated for the Oval Office.

An AP-NORC ballot from August mentioned that 51 per cent of US adults thought Mr Trump was too outdated. However, Mr Biden ranked increased, with 77 per cent of adults additionally saying the identical factor in regards to the present president.

Interestingly, solely 28 per cent of Republicans believed Mr Trump’s older age was a priority, whereas an enormous 69 per cent of Democrats noticed Mr Biden as too outdated.

The present First Lady has been defending her husband after his marketing campaign has been dealing with scrutiny for his age, saying that it is just an “asset” to his presidency, bringing “wisdom” and “experience”, she mentioned on Morning Joe on Thursday, a day earlier than Mr Trump’s spoof advert was uploaded on his social media.

While Mr Biden, for higher or worse, holds the title of the oldest individual to imagine the US presidency, a minimum of Mr Trump has a document of his personal: the primary ever former US president to face legal costs.