Donald Trump's mental stability is being used against him more and more in the run-up to the 2024 election, including by his own fellow Republican rivals, according to a report.
Trump, who appeared to confuse Barack Obama for Joe Biden at a rally on Saturday in New Hampshire, is taking fire from all angles on the issue of whether he's mentally fit to take the president's office again. President Joe Biden has already been hammering Trump on this issue, despite Biden himself getting his own criticisms for purported age-related decline.
Now, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis are similarly striking out against Trump, according to the Washington Post's report.
"The DeSantis campaign recently posted a thread of more than two dozen clumsy or confusing remarks by former president Donald Trump, positing that 'this is why his handlers won’t let him debate,'" the outlet reported. "Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, speaking to Jewish donors, mocked Trump for speaking positively about the leaders of China and North Korea, saying he is evidently 'confused' about which countries are American allies and which are adversaries."
Biden's campaign has been quick to take advantage of the missed marks by Trump. And some Democrats want to remind the public that the president isn't the only one making mistakes while speaking.
"Trump’s freewheeling speeches and improvisational rallies lend themselves easily to mistakes, said Democratic strategist Rodell Mollineau," the Post reported. "I think it’s smart to also just remind those who are shaping the coverage of this that ‘Hey, Trump says some really ridiculous and crazy things — much more so, by the way, than the president ever does,' said Mollineau, who serves as an adviser for the pro-Biden super PAC Unite the Country."
The Post also listed some examples from Trump's recent speeches.
"In recent speeches, Trump has incorrectly described Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as the leader of Turkey and falsely suggested Hungary shares a border with Russia. He has repeatedly referred to the Obama administration when he meant the Biden administration, and at one point he inaccurately suggested he’d beaten Obama — rather than Hillary Clinton — in the 2016 election," the outlet reported.
