When you hear that President Joe Biden was caught voluntarily putting on a “Trump 2024” hat, most people would automatically think he was having a “senior moment.”
That apparently wasn’t the case as Biden was making an appearance at the Shanksville, Pa. Volunteer Fire Department to commemorate the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary and Deputy Assistant to the President Andrew Bates posted to X about the event and wrote that the move to wear the hat was “as a gesture” to a Trump supporter.
“As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS should put on his Trump cap,” Bates wrote. “He briefly wore it.”
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At the Shanksville Fire Station, @POTUS spoke about the country's bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that.
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) September 11, 2024
As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS should put on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it. https://t.co/7VKZnkVMY7
Listen, we rightfully give politicians a lot of grief over the dumbass things they do on a daily basis. But, this seems to have been a light-hearted moment, from all accounts, and Biden — for all his faults — seemed to simply be playing along.
There’s a lot of things we can criticize about the current president, but I don’t think this is one of them.
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