Donald Trump has implied Joe Biden defecated on the Resolute Desk during a billionaire’s fundraiser in Palm Beach.
A source told The New York Times Trump made the remarks during a 45-minute presentation at a dinner hosted by investor John Paulson on Saturday night.
The comments came as Trump lambasted Biden’s border policy and mocked him for making poor decisions behind the Resolute Desk, which was gifted to the United States by Queen Victoria in 1880.
‘The Resolute Desk is beautiful,’ Trump proclaimed. ‘Ronald Reagan used it, others used it.’
He then sounded ‘disgusted,’ according to the unnamed attendee. ‘And he’s using it. I might not use it the next time. It’s been soiled. And I mean that literally, which is sad.’
Former President Donald Trump implied President Joe Biden defecated on the Resolute Desk during his remarks at a dinner in Palm Beach
‘The Resolute Desk is beautiful’ Trump proclaimed before adding that Biden had ‘soiled’ it, ‘literally, which is sad’
The remarks came amid a tirade against the Biden administration’s border policy and recent influx of immigrants from Latin America
The source reported that guests broke into laughter, interpreting the remark as the former president saying that Biden had defecated on the desk.
The remarks followed a tirade against Biden’s immigration policy, which includes migrants being ‘shipped in, brought in, deposited in our country,’ according to Trump.
The former president claimed the newly arrived migrants ‘make the Hells Angels look like extremely nice people.’
‘These are people coming in from prisons and jails,’ Trump said. ‘They’re coming in from just unbelievable places and countries, countries that are a disaster.’
He then appeared to reference a comment from 2018, when he dubbed Haiti, El Salvador and a slew of African nations ‘shithole countries’
‘And when I said, you know, why can’t we allow people to come in from nice countries, I’m trying to be nice,’ Trump said.
‘Nice countries, you know like Denmark, Switzerland? Do we have any people coming in from Denmark? How about Switzerland? How about Norway?’
Trump has accused migrants of ‘poisoning the blood of the country’ and made similar comments during a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan last week, accusing Biden of unleashing a ‘bloodbath’ at the country’s southern border.
‘Under Crooked Joe Biden, every state is now a border state. Every town is now a border town because Joe Biden has brought the carnage and chaos and killing from all over world and dumped it straight into our backyards,’ Trump said.
The former president claimed the migrants ‘make the Hells Angels look like extremely nice people’
He made similar comments during a rally in Michigan last week, asserting that Biden ‘brought the carnage and chaos and killing from all over world and dumped it straight into our backyards’
These criticisms have been echoed by other right-leaning politicians like Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who accused Biden of opening the floodgates to immigrants with prior criminal convictions
His concerns have been echoed by other conservative politicians like Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn.
In a press release from her office last month, Blackburn claimed ‘30,000 illegal immigrants with prior criminal convictions, including homicide, domestic violence, and sexual assault’ had entered the country under Biden’s watch.
‘As a direct result of this open-border agenda, gang members from around the world are entering America and setting up their operations, endangering police officers, families, and public safety,’ Blackburn said.
The release was titled ‘Biden’s Open Border is Fueling Violent Crime’ and made reference to Laken Riley, the 22-year-old University of Georgia nursing student who was murdered by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela.
While instances of violence serve as a topic of fixation in the press, the alleged ‘migrant crime wave’ is not supported by recent data.
Nationwide crime saw a decline in 2023, according to the FBI, including homicide decreasing by 13 percent year over year. This followed an unprecedented spike in homicides from 2019 to 2020.
Moreover, a 2020 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that United States-born citizens are over two times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes than undocumented immigrants.