President Donald Trump could have changed the subject with one remark, but he kept talking as if the public wouldn’t notice the contradictions piling up.
Amid scrutiny of the 80-year-old president’s health, his mobility in particular, remains under a public microscope.
The head of the MAGA movement may have traveled to the Lone Star state where he thought he could deflect from that brutal imagery back in Washington.
Trump’s Texas trip took an unexpected turn when he hit the stage in Denton on Oct. 1 for a campaign rally.
He came to boost Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton, but his off-the-cuff remarks quickly hijacked the event.
Workers at the Peterbilt Motors facility waited nearly two hours for Trump to take the stage. Once the GOP leader reached the microphone, he spoke for another hour.
Nearly three hours into the live-streamed gathering, the president went on an abrupt tangent that left many viewers baffled.
Trump’s mind randomly wandered to former President Joe Biden, 83.
“Someday I’m going to trip. I’ll be walking down. Don’t forget when Biden left the stage, he spoke very shortly, like two minutes, one minute, as quickly as possible. Could never find the stairs,” Trump muttered. “I don’t have that problem.”
A flight of stairs seemed to be the only thing that Trump could think about at that point.
He then began bragging about his own ability to go up and down steps in a practically incoherent word salad.
“Do you know how many stairs they have? Look, I can go ramp. I can go stair. I can go another stair. Another stair in the back. I have a stair. He could never find a stair,” babbled the president.
The crowd offered a lukewarm response.
Online reactions were far more brutal. Specifically, a now-infamous image of the commander-in-chief resurfaced. A photo-op turned into an amateur human anatomy examination.
After Trump defended his stair-walking at the Texas event, the viral photo of his warped posture sparked a fresh wave of mockery on social media.
“Imagine being such an insecure failure you brag about being able to walk up stairs,” said one person.
Another exclaimed, “That’s really pathetic. And funny. Go grandpa!”
Many online were baffled by his strange standing stance at the White House on Sept. 29. His left leg appeared twisted in an odd direction while his upper body leaned awkwardly to the right.
“Bro, you can’t even f—g stand straight,” a Trump detractor tweeted along with a screenshot of the bent-legged POTUS.
One confused X user responded, “Did he break his leg and it didn’t set right?!?! What the f—k?!?!” Hinting at his motive, another said, “He’s setting it up for when he does have a colossal, inevitable fall. He can say “I told you, blah, blah, blah” It’s there fault.”
Trump’s mid-speech, Biden-hating tantrum also fueled animosity directed at the polarizing president. For instance, someone scornfully asked, “And he’s proud for being able to walk?”
Trump’s latest stream-of-consciousness rant about Biden and stairs aligns with his past comments about staircases and his presidential predecessors.
Previously, he was triggered by former President Barack Obama.
“The way President Obama runs down the stairs of Air Force 1, hopping and bobbing all the way, is so inelegant and unpresidential. Do not fall!” Trump tweeted in 2014 during Obama’s second term.
Trump’s compulsion to share his thoughts about Obama, 65, did not stop when the New York-raised businessman returned to the White House for his own second round as president.
“The only thing I admired about Barack Hussein Obama, which was nothing actually,” Trump stated at a rally-style event in Kentucky back in March.
He resumed, “But the only thing is the way he bopped down… Remember? He’d bopp… You talk about unpresidential. He’s bop… and I couldn’t believe that he made it without at least a noticeable major fall.”
