2/7/2018

POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Vice President Joe Biden said President Donald Trump is a ‘joke’ in the wake of the President’s remarks that Democrats who didn’t clap for him during his State of the Union address are ‘treasonous’ and ‘un-American.’
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders attempted to clarify Trump’s comments by telling reporters Tuesday that the President was ‘clearly joking’ at the time.
‘Well let me tell you, he’s a joke,’ Biden said in an interview later Tuesday with CNN’s Chris Cuomo.
Asked to clarify if he was calling Trump a joke, the former vice president said, ‘Yeah, I mean, in this kind of stuff.’
During a speech Monday at a manufacturing plant in Ohio, Trump criticized Democrats who chose not to clap during parts of his first State of the Union speech.
‘They were like death and un-American. Un-American. Somebody said, *Treasonous.* I mean, yeah, I guess, why not,’ Trump said.
‘I think he understands, and I think the people around him understand, what presidents say matters,’ Biden said, adding, ‘It’s just amazing the outrageously inaccurate things the President says.’ “

-Veronica Stracqualursi, “Biden says Trump is a ‘joke’ for calling Democrats ‘treasonous’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Feb. 7, 2018 12:30pm