Niamh Shackleton
People have heavily critized the president for doing a (very poor) impression of Joe Biden.
It's not new information that Trump doesn't think very highly of his predecessor, often calling him 'Sleepy Joe' and blaming the current climate in the US on the policies brought in by the Biden administration, but seemingly the POTUS thinks so little of him he actively mocked him on stage.
On Tuesday (January 13), Trump was speaking at the Detroit Economic Club in Michigan when he decided to do the questionable impression.
Halfway through his speech he said to the crowd: "You know, when you go up here, you take a big chance. Especially me because I go off teleprompter about 80% of the time.
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"But isn't it nice to have a president that can go off teleprompter, don't you think?"
After receiving a few chuckles from the crowd, Trump went on: "Remember the speeches Joe would make? First of all, they'd last a matter of seconds, you know."
He then proceeded to point out how Biden would 'always cough before a speech' and began coughing himself while pretending to be him.
According to Trump, Biden's speeches would always be 'pretty short' apart from on one occasion where the Democrat was supposedly 'high as a kite' and 'floating'.
"Remember he was high as a kite? He was floating," Trump said. "He was up there way up... that was a bad speech. But uh, hey, he got through it, you know. He got through it. If you call it getting through it."
While Trump seemingly amused by his coughing impression of Biden, people online don't see the funny side.
Somebody raged on Reddit where a clip of his speech was shared: "What an absolute disgrace of a human being who gave other horrible humans the excuse to be the most vile version of humankind."
Another wrote: "I am so fearful of todays generation of kids and teenagers who will think that this behavior is totally normal for a president. God he has made unprecedented damages to our country and its people."
"He sounds like the moron he is," said a third of the president, as another penned: "There is no bottom to this guy’s depravity."
UNILAD have approached the White House and Biden's office for comment.
Trump's controversial speech came just a few hours after he visited a Ford factory, where he was met by an employee who obviously wasn't his biggest fan.
Heckling Trump, he called him a 'pedophile protector', to which the POTUS responded by flipping him the middle finger.
The man who made the remarks has since been fired, but thousands of dollars have been raised online for him.