“I’m being sarcastic,” the Republican former president said of mixing up Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
Donald Trump once again denied having any cognitive issues, repeating his claim that he is being sarcastic when he mixes up President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama.
Trump made the comments during a town hall discussion with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday night.
“I’ll say the real president is Barack Hussein Obama,” Trump said. “They’ll say he doesn’t know who the president is, he thinks it’s Barack Hussein Obama. No, I’m being sarcastic.”
Trump, who is leading the race for the Republican nomination, also commented on Biden’s cognitive state.
“We have a man that can’t put two sentences together. We have a man that doesn’t know he’s alive,” he said.
Moments earlier, he noted the issue was “serious.”
“We shouldn’t be joking about it,” Trump said.
Trump’s latest remarks come as age is shaping up as an important issue in the 2024 election, which could be a rematch of Trump and Biden’s first race in 2020.
Some of Trump’s rivals for the Republican nomination have sought to highlight his age—77—and cognitive state by drawing attention to his recent flubs.
