Biden on Trump: He 'didn't build a damn thing'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Politico

05/08/2024 02:02 PM EDT


President Joe Biden on Wednesday cast a major new investment in battleground Wisconsin as emblematic of the nation’s economic comeback.

But the main thrust of his address wasn’t so much to boast about the current climate as it was an attempt to contrast it with his predecessor’s record. Time and again, Biden took aim at former President Donald Trump, casting him as someone who talked but didn’t deliver.

Even the setting of the speech itself was meant to deliver the point: Biden was highlighting a new Microsoft data center that would be built on grounds where then-President Trump announced that Foxconn would build a $10 billion factory for making LCD panels. That plant was never built, even after the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer received millions in subsidies and bulldozed homes and farms to build the factory.

“He promised a $10 billion investment by Foxconn. He came with your senator, Ron Johnson, with a golden shovel and didn’t build a damn thing,” Biden said. “They dug a hole with those golden shovels and then they fell into it.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/08/biden-trump-2024-elections-00156853

[IronLionZion]

1. Trump couldn't even build his stupid wall

[Shermann]

12. Bush 41 paid a political price for that broken campaign promise regarding "no new taxes".

There was at least some accountability to voters in the Republican Party back then.

[Polybius]

24. Bush 41 actually signed the tax increase

That's way different than not getting your bills passed.

[Shermann]

28. So, no accountability for incompetence and ineffectiveness then? nt

[poozwah]

29. read my lips

bush 41 did the responsible thing. what he didn’t realize is that being responsible doesn’t matter to a party more interested in tax cuts than governance.

[Warpy]

30. And what little he did put up blew down

or proved vulnerable to a battery powered Sawz-All. It was a POS, just like him.

[IronLionZion]

31. We can have fun with that in campaign commercials

and include video of his wall falling down with his hair blowing in the wind

[Warpy]

32. Don't forget the audio of his boasting about his beautiful wall

I don't know if the Democrats will do that one but they sure as hell should.

[Lovie777]

2. Actually shithole trashed the USA...........................

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. Unless you consider kids in cages...

Tax cuts for the rich, and attempting to weaponize the U.S. Covid response to be "building" something.

[Freethinker65]

4. This, please. More of this!

This hits both at the local level and at the National level.

[MOMFUDSKI]

5. Good on you, Joe! Keep

picking away at the orange scab.

[catbyte]

6. Except this.

[riversedge]

13. Sad but true!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. Nailed that destructive asshole Ron Johnson, too.

[japple]

8. And, whatever happenend to the Foxconn deal?

https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2023/11/10/what-happened-to-foxconn-in-wisconsin-a-timeline/71535498007/

[Igel]

22. Well, that's certainly counter-narrative.

Something was built. Much less was paid out. Monies were paid in. And the unspoken elephant in the room is COVID.

[mzmolly]

33. Fox Con

is more apt.

[Warpy]

9. And now that edifice to his massive ego is in trouble

Glitzy retailers have fled, the restaurant has closed, the glitterati of NYC who bought in the 80s and 90s are now aging and out of the news and their kids rightfully don't want to live in a vulgar skyscraper, no matter what the address is. There are no buyers who will pay what anyone thinks their apartments ought to be worth. The public areas are now closed to the public and the waterfall has been turned off. It's a dying building, even though it's probably got another few decades of useful life in it before the plumbing and wiring start to fail and the elevators break down and the rising water table plays hell with the foundation..

[leftieNanner]

11. Keith Olbermann got out at the right time! Nt

[SupportSanity]

15. Keith took a loss to get the heck out of there

[Warpy]

21. In a way, it's sad to see

but I don't think that building is going to get the refit it so badly needs until TFG is gone and his name comes off the front.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Go Joe! That's the way to focus the public's attention. /nt

[Talitha]

14. Keep punching Joe! Glad you mentioned creepy Ron, too. He's another PITA.

[NoMoreRepugs]

16. Do NOT stop hammering the Orange Buffoon every day all day JoeB!

[SupportSanity]

17. Biden could make an ad on location from each state describing what Trump didn't do in that state

The ad caption could read "But Trump promised us"

[AllaN01Bear]

18. every r prez that i know of destroyed , previous dems accomplishments this thing included. then they say see hwo

good i am?!

[TeamProg]

19. Awesome ! nt

[ShazzieB]

20. The only time Trump built anything was before he ever ran for president.

When he was a real estate developer, he built a few big, flashy buildings, using millions of dollars of other people's money that he avoided paying back to the greatest extent possible. That was his only claim to fame when he decided to run for potus, that and a cheesy TV game show that portrayed him as the amazingly successful businessman he wished he was.

It doesn't surprise me one bit that a totally self-absorbed individual with no understanding of how government works accomplished so little in office. Even if he had truly been the genius businessman he was portrayed as on TV, it's not possible to run the federal government like a family business, which is what the Trump Organization was and is.

So of course he "didn't build a damned thing" as potus. Extreme narcissism and profound incompetence are a very bad recipe for accomplishing anything of value.

[electric_blue68]

23. Alright, President Biden! This is the kind of info, and jabs we need for the voters!

[ancianita]

25. Our badass president just keeps tellin' the facts!

[captain queeg]

26. You go Joe!

[Aussie105]

27. 'Biden took aim at former President Donald Trump, casting him as someone who talked but didn't deliver.'

Also, in the latest news, grass is green and the sky is sometimes blue.

So what else didn't we know before?

The people who should soak up this message as new and important information though, well, they aren't listening.

The gloves are off, more of this Joe, you may get through to them.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. President Biden is right on this

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

35. These headlines make me smile

Link to tweet

[Kid Berwyn]

36. Nice thought to express nationally.

Perhaps in a face-to-face debate?