Born there but not born there
Trump is trying out a new brand of birtherism: pretending Biden wasn’t born where he was born.
Which is weird because…what? Who cares? What difference does it make what town or city or village or megalopolis someone was born in?
President Trump traveled to Old Forge, Pennsylvania, just miles away from former Vice President Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, to deliver a scathing speech in which he claimed Biden ‘wasn’t born’ in Scranton, just hours before the Democratic presidential hopeful was set to accept his party’s nomination.
Oh no, not Not Born in Scranton! The horror!
But perhaps Trump’s most vicious and bizarre attack was on Biden’s claim to be a native son of Scranton, asserting that Biden, who was born in St. Mary’s Hospital in Scranton in 1942, “wasn’t born here.”
Ok so I guess the claim is that Biden wasn’t born? He’s the walking unborn? He’s still a fetus, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding?
Whatever. As far as I’m concerned Scranton is the US Slough, because the US version of The Office was set in Scranton. Both are towns no one dreams of visiting.
Politicians have an advantage in any location they are linked to; maybe Trump thinks this will loosen Biden’s grip on the area’s votes? Who knows, the man’s brain is porridge by now.
Maybe Biden was born in Kenya. I hear that’s a popular birthplace for US Presidents.
Well, I thought for a long time I was born in Oakland, only to find out I was actually born in Alameda, but my parents lived in Oakland. So if I run for president, I’d better get that straight, right?
Come friendly bombs and fall on Scranton.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
You may not aspire to visit Scranton now, but who knows, maybe they’ll build the Biden Presidential Library there?
I wonder where the Trump Presidential Library will be? Maybe Ft. Leavenworth, KS, although Terre Haute, IN, where Timothy McVeigh was executed, should also be a contender.
My wife and I have travelled all the way from Australia to visit Scranton, and have stayed there a few days (with relatives). A most pleasant town. However, I will admit that I am not qualified to comment on Slough, one way or the other.
But somewhere in the US there must be a town called Barrel. If you are looking for Trump, you are sure to find him there; scraping the bottom of it. The poor chump is clearly getting desperate.
And for what it’s worth, I would not be Trump for all the tea in China. It must be hell on wheels being Trump, compulsively grabbing anything that takes his fancy, with about as much insight into himself as is displayed by the average flea on the back of the average town dog; in say, Scranton.
PN @#5:
The Trump Presidential Library, (TPL) will only require a very modest building. Actually, something the size of a dog kennel would be about right. Trump might also incline to donate to the TPL one or two books from his own collection, but the shelf holding them should hold plenty of crayons as well, just in case hes hasn’t quite finished colouring one or two of them in.
All I know about Scranton PA is that the residents eat 30,000 pounds of bananas a day!
Sorry, Omar, the only place in the world which has the word ‘barrel’ in the name, as far as I can find out, is Gun Barrel City, in Texas.
Gun Barrel City – what a friendly name!
It’s great to be in Cincinnati!
Nah. They’d like him if he was a fetus.
Part of me doesn’t even want to engage with this idiocy. But it’s so bloody irritating. Even if Biden was born in a boat on the Chesapeake Bay, he’d still be a Scranton boy. Maybe we should start spreading the rumor that Trump was actually born in San Francisco or something. Quelle horreur!
Claire,
Could well be that Drumpf was found under a bush growing outside of some castle in say, Transylvania. Would explain a lot.
@8 for some reason this morning I read that as ‘each’, and my mind boggled for a minute there.
@Roj: Except for that one fateful day in 1965 – wonder if someone will now blame that on Biden.