{"id":12718,"date":"2024-10-30T01:21:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T01:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=12718"},"modified":"2024-10-30T01:21:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T01:21:24","slug":"biden-denied-ice-cream-request-after-threatening-to-take-comic-who-mocked-puerto-rico-for-a-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=12718","title":{"rendered":"Biden denied ice cream request after threatening to take comic who mocked Puerto Rico \u2018for a swim\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Biden is having a rough end to his term of office.<\/p>\n

The 81-year-old commander in chief was denied his preferred ice cream flavor Tuesday when a Baltimore shop ran out of chocolate chip \u2014 shortly after the lame duck threateningly said he\u2019d like to take\u00a0the comic who mocked Puerto Rico<\/a>\u00a0at a Donald Trump rally Sunday \u201cfor a swim.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden had to settle for a scoop of vanilla and a scoop of chocolate \u2014 with the shop operator pleading that \u201cI would have made some if I knew you were coming!\u201d<\/p>\n

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President Biden asked for chocolate chip ice cream Tuesday in Baltimore \u2014 but was told the shop had none available.REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Biden stopped for his favorite dessert after threateningly saying he\u2019d like to take a comedian \u201cfor a swim.\u201dAP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The disappointing treat stop came after Biden stepped on his farewell tour\u2019s messaging about the effects of large spending bills with an off-scrip aside about comedian Tony Hinchcliffe,\u00a0who emerged from relative obscurity by calling Puerto Rico<\/a>\u00a0a \u201cfloating island of garbage\u201d at Madison Square Garden as a warm-up act for the 45th president and Republican nominee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud to announce more than $3 billion in funding from my Inflation Reduction Act to help clean up and modernize ports in 27 different states and territories from Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and beyond \u2014 including, yes, Puerto Rico,\u201d Biden said at Baltimore\u2019s harbor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like take that guy for swim out there,\u201d the commander in chief jabbed before trailing off and saying \u201canyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[Rep.] Steny [Hoyer]\u2019s looking at me, \u2018Don\u2019t get going, Joe\u2019,\u201d Biden added.<\/p>\n

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Biden had to settle for scoops of chocolate and vanilla ice cream.REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The president did not specify what he would do to Hinchcliffe, 40, on that swim.<\/p>\n

Democrats are seeking to use Hinchcliffe\u2019s words to drive turnout among large Puerto Rican populations \u2014 such as in Pennsylvania, where nearly 500,000 island descendants live and where the Republican candidate lost by just over 80,000 votes in 2020.<\/p>\n

Trump, 78, also is seeking to turn the page on the controversy by rolling out new endorsements from Puerto Ricans as polls show he could increase his standing among Hispanic voters after gaining ground in 2020.<\/p>\n

The taunt resembled previous Biden utterances, such as his 2016 remark of Trump that \u201cI wish we were in high school \u2014 I could take him behind the gym.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Biden said in an earlier speech that he was furious with comedian Tony Hinchcliffe for mocking Puerto Rico.AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hinchcliffe\u2019s comments have propelled a last-minute Democratic outreach effort in swing states like Pennsylvania.Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2018,\u00a0Biden reflected upon that comment\u00a0<\/a>and added that he could\u00a0\u201cbeat the hell\u201d<\/a>\u00a0out of Trump physically if he did go behind the gym.<\/p>\n

Trump has frequently mocked the idea of the frail Democrat pummeling him.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what would happen if he took me behind the barn? I\u2019d go like this,\u201d Trump said earlier this year, blowing a puff of air and gesturing how the breeze would knock Biden off his feet.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would happen very fast. It would be over very fast.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president made the appearance Tuesday in the safely Democratic state exactly a week before the presidential election between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, who replaced Biden atop the ticket after Democrats mutinied over his apparent cognitive decline, forcing him to step aside on July 21.<\/p>\n

Biden will be holed up in the White House later Tuesday as Harris, 60, delivers a widely promoted \u201cclosing argument\u201d to voters during a large rally at the Ellipse just south of the executive mansion.<\/p>\n

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