Donald Trump’s response to the news that his predecessor Joe Biden has stage 4 prostate cancer has gone from graceless to plain crazy.
Having initially called the news “very sad”, Trump last week told an Oval Office press conference that Biden was “not a smart person, but a somewhat vicious person”, adding: “If you feel sorry for him, don’t feel sorry for him, because he’s vicious.”
The president then took to his Truth Social platform to share a claim that Biden had been killed in 2020 and secretly replaced by a robotic clone. “There is no #JoeBiden – executed in 2020,” the post read, going on to claim that the real Biden was replaced by “clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities” and that “Democrats don’t know the difference”. The claims were predictably amplified by his supporters online, with some pointing to slight differences in Biden’s earlobes in different pictures, and others spotting the “clue” of a funeral cannon salute being given at Arlington National Cemetery on the day of his inauguration.
It’s entirely possible you missed this story as many media ignored it – although younger readers may be interested to know a sitting president claiming his predecessor had been replaced with a robot while in office would once have been quite big news. It’s just another day in Trumpland, though!
