There also was Trump's assessment of Joe Biden's candidacy.
The other “money quote,” as it were, from Tuesday’s Iowa town hall was Trump’s assertion that he doesn’t think Joe Biden will be the Democrat nominee for president in 2024.
HANNITY: Let me ask you.
When prominent Democratic voices like Maureen Dowd and David Axelrod and Van Jones and others are so critical of Joe Biden – and, of course, he is struggling cognitively. I can’t think of, in the last couple of months, any appearance that he has had where he wasn’t either mumbling or bumbling or stumbling or having no clue where to go, where to exit.
Now, my question is, do you think, in 11 months, he will be their candidate?
TRUMP: I personally don’t think he makes it, OK? I haven’t said that. I’m saving it for this big town hall. I have never really...
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
TRUMP: I personally don't think he makes it. [emphasis added]
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TRUMP: I think he’s in bad shape physically.
Do you remember when he said, “I’d like to take him behind the barn?” If he took me behind the barn and I went like this [makes blowing air sound], I believe he’d fall over.
(LAUGHTER)
TRUMP: I believe he’d fall over. Who knows. Who knows. Who knows.
But it was OK. And, by the way, it was OK for him to say that. He said, I’d like to take him behind the – he could say that and everyone thought it was so cute.
If I ever said it, they’d say, “he’s a dictator. He’s a horrible human being.” It’s a whole double standard we have, and not only in the law, but just about everything else, as you know very well.
I personally don’t think he makes it physically. I watched him at the beach. He wasn’t able to lift a beach chair, which is meant for children to lift. He couldn’t lift it like that.
(LAUGHTER)
TRUMP: And mentally, I would say he’s possibly equally as bad, and maybe worse. But I don’t know.
I will say this. He’s got vicious people surrounding him around that beautiful Oval Office. There are people in that Oval Office that are evil people, bad people, smart people, young, vicious. They’re communists, and they’re bad. They’re...
