Biden 2.0? Trump, Rubio stumble while boarding Air Force One, netizens react

Netizens had a "deja vu" moment when yet another President of the United States stumbled while boarding Air Force One. US President Donald Trump, who often mocked his predecessor Joe Biden for his old age and stumbles, tripped while boarding Air Force One, which was on its way to Camp David.

The incident took place after Trump spoke to the reporters in Hagerstown, Maryland, where he was asked if he would be willing to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to the protests against immigration raids in Los Angeles. “Depends on whether or not there's an insurrection,” Trump replied.

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Apart from Trump, US Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio also stumbled while boarding the aircraft after Trump. In the past, Trump and his supporters frequently mocked former US President Joe Biden for the stumbles he took during his time in office.

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Social media had a field day

Netizens did not miss mocking the brief stumble of the American leader. “I'm surprised he hasn't replaced those stairs with a portable escalator of some kind,” one user wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Time to get Old Man Trump fitted for a wheelchair,” another exclaimed.

Meanwhile, a journalist pointed out the duplicity of standards. “When Joe Biden did stuff like this, Fox would play the clips over and over like it was as significant as the moon landing,” journalist Aaron Rupar noted. “Cannot wait for all the books and wall-to-wall coverage,” political strategist Marco Frieri quipped.

In the summer of 2023, Trump mocked Biden for falling at the Air Force graduation ceremony in Colorado. He said it was “not inspiring” for the graduates to have seen the then-president take a tumble over a sandbag. “I hope he wasn’t hurt. I hope he wasn’t hurt...You don’t want that,” said Trump during a campaign event in Iowa at that time.

During his speech, he recalled the time when Biden tiptoed down a ramp in 2020 at the Army’s West Point graduation ceremony. “The whole thing is crazy, you have got to be careful about that, you don’t want that even if you have to tiptoe down a ramp,” he said at the time. He added that the ramp was “like an ice-skating rink.”