Washington, Apr 24 (EFE).- The president of the United States, Joe Biden, joked this Wednesday that his predecessor and rival in the upcoming November elections for the White House, Donald Trump, put the bleach he suggested on his hair. inject to combat covid-19.
“Remember when Trump was trying to deal with Covid, he suggested injecting a little bleach into his veins? He failed, it all went into his hair!” Biden said at a campaign event in Washington with union members, joking with him. hair color of the former president.
“I shouldn’t have said this, they are a bad influence on me,” Biden added to laughter and applause from the audience.
Just four years ago, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, which claimed more than a million lives in the United States, Trump suggested injecting bleach as a possible cure.
The Biden campaign wanted to take advantage of this anniversary to remind Americans of the occurrence of the now Republican candidate for the White House.
“Don’t inject yourself with bleach. And don’t vote for the guy who told you to inject yourself with bleach,” Biden said Tuesday in a message on his X account in which he shared the moment Trump spoke on the subject.
During this day’s campaign event in Washington, Biden received the support of the North American Building Trades Unions (NABTU), a federation of 14 unions that has nearly three million members in the country. .
However, perhaps the most influential member of the NABTU federation, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, whose affiliates are known as ‘Teamsters’, has not yet decided whether it will support Biden or Trump.
Biden has placed a lot of emphasis on his relationship with unions during his term, even participating in a picket line during last year’s strike by auto industry workers. EFE
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