U.S. President Donald Trump, never known for temperate
language on Monday called Joe Biden, his Democratic rival “stupid” and demanded
an apology for what Trump called anti-vaccine rhetoric.
Trailing in national opinion polls as the U.S. death toll
from the virus approaches 190,000, Trump unleashed a broad attack against both
the former vice president, his opponent in the Nov. 3 election, and Biden’s
running mate, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris.
Trump has said that a vaccine against the virus would be ready in record time, perhaps before the election, raising questions about whether political pressure might result in the deployment of a vaccine before it is safe.
Harris had said she would not trust Trump with a vaccine
before the election and Biden, critical of Trump’s response to the virus, has
urged Americans to heed the scientists.
Critics had accused Trump of undermining scientists during
the pandemic.
Speaking in front of the White House at a U.S. Labor Day
news conference, Trump said: “Biden and his very liberal running mate, the most
liberal person in Congress by the way – is not a competent person in my
opinion, would destroy this country and would destroy this economy – should
immediately apologise for the reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric that they are
talking right now,” adding: “It undermines science.”
The president called Biden “stupid.”
Trump again dismissed a report in The Atlantic that he had
referred to fallen U.S. soldiers as “suckers” and “losers” and highlighted a
denial of the story by an aide to former White House chief of staff John Kelly,
Zach Fuentes.
“The story is a hoax,” Trump said. “Who would say a thing
like that? Only an animal would say a thing like that.”
In rambling remarks the president also hailed the U.S. labor
market’s recovery from the pandemic-fueled recession and suggested Biden would
undo that progress.
Trump has sought to paint himself as best-placed to revive
the economy, despite criticism that his initial dismissal of the virus threat
led to both a health crisis as well as a recession.
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