On Wednesday night, Mr. Biden took the stage at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to deliver a rare and direct rebuke to his predecessor and his supporters who, he said, “represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic”. Right-wing media circles and politicians were quick to respond to Mr Biden’s speech, calling it dictatorial and providing alleged proof that the Democrat had declared war on “Red State America”. “President Biden gave a dictator’s speech tonight in a dictator’s style, with a dictator’s image, using a dictator’s words,” Stephen Miller, a former senior adviser to Mr. Trump, said during an appearance on Fox News later. the reason. Others tried to play up the aesthetics of Biden’s set, comparing the two Marines at his side and the red curtain around him as something akin to a speech by Adolf Hitler in Nazi-era Germany. However, also in the wake of the speech, a video has since emerged that appears to show Mr Trump making a darker attack on the party across the aisle while flanked by military personnel. Matthew Sheffield, a reporter for The Young Turks, shared the one-year president’s quote on Twitter Friday night. The clip was from a 2020 campaign event. In the video, the former president begins listing all of the Democratic Party’s mistakes, which included divesting from fossil fuels, reproductive rights, and claiming that the party wanted to “replace American freedom with left-wing fascism.” “Fascists. They are fascists. Some of them, not all. But some of them, but they are getting closer and closer. We have to win this election,” Mr Trump adds in the since-viral clip. Trump has been known throughout his administration to label progressives within the Democratic Party unwinnable. In 2019, the former president came under fire for comments he lobbed at four Democratic women of color in Congress after he claimed they hated America, while also falsely claiming that Representative Ilhan Omar — one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress — it was Al Qaeda. sympathizer. “She is launching a blatantly racist attack on four elected members of the United States House of Representatives, all of whom are women of color,” Rep. Omar, D-Minnesota, said at the time. The clip of Trump calling Democrats fascists was later picked up by MSNBC host Chris Hayes, who noted that the disturbing and ironic part of the video that is just now gaining traction was a sad reflection of the daily onslaught of ridiculous statements coming from the White House under the Trump administration. “The funniest part of people finding and reposting this is that at the time it had virtually zero coverage because it was absolutely par for the course for Trump,” Hayes said.
