The headgear didn’t suit him particularly well: During a visit to the US state of Pennsylvania, the outgoing US President Joe Biden put on a red cap with the inscription “Trump 2024”. Biden did this as a gesture of “unity” on the anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001, the White House announced on Wednesday (local time). Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had called on Biden to put on the cap.
The cap is one of the accessories of the election campaign of ex-President Trump, who wants to move back into the White House and whom Biden sees as a threat to US democracy.
The incident occurred during a meeting Wednesday with firefighters in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The plane from Flight 93 crashed there after its passengers rebelled against the hijackers. The Islamists probably wanted to fly the plane to a destination in Washington.
The Democrat Biden spoke in Shanksville about the “bipartisan unity” to which the country must return, White House spokesman Andrew Bates wrote in the online service X. The president gave a Trump supporter a cap with the presidential seal. In exchange, he gave Biden his “Trump 2024” cap, which he “wore briefly”. The 81-year-old put the red cap on top of a black one that he was already wearing.
The video of the president laughing with his political archrival’s cap enthroned on his head quickly spread across online services. The Trump team reacted immediately and took advantage of the episode: “Thanks for the support, Joe!” the team wrote on the online service X.
The president dropped out of the race for the White House on July 21 because doubts about his mental and physical fitness had become increasingly louder. The trigger for the end of his political career was a disastrous appearance in a TV duel with Trump a month earlier.
Biden’s Vice President Kamala Harris, who is running for the Democrats in his place in the November presidential election, had previously attended the 9/11 commemoration in New York with Biden and Trump on Wednesday and was there just a few hours after the aggressive TV duel shook the Republican’s hand.
