President Joe Biden got caught donning a Trump hat during a Wednesday visit with Pennsylvania firefighters, and video of the moment it happened quickly went viral.
People scrambled for an explanation — Was he tricked? Was it an endorsement? — but then a longer video of the exchange made the rounds.
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Biden was visiting with firefighters in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, for the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks at the time, and there was a discussion with one man regarding whether or not Biden would sign a hat.
The president obliged, signing a navy blue cap with what appeared to be the presidential seal on it, but as he handed it over, he told the man, “I need that hat.”
The man offered Biden his hat — a red baseball cap with an American flag on the bill and “Trump” in bold lettering — and asked, “Do you want my autograph?”
”Hell no,” Biden replied, prompting laughs. “I ain’t going that far.”
Biden put the Trump cap on over the hat he was already wearing, and the firefighters cheered.
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“Hey, I’m proud of you now, you old fart,” the man said to Biden.
”No eating dogs and cats,” Biden replied as the laughter died down.
The White House responded to the viral video with a statement from spokesman Andrew Bates, who said that Biden had taken the hat as a gesture to the unity that Americans had felt in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks.
“At the Shanksville Fire Station, @POTUS spoke about the country’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that,” Bates wrote. “As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit POTUS should put on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it.”
At the Shanksville Fire Station, @POTUS spoke about the country’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that.
As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS should put on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it. https://t.co/7VKZnkVMY7
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) September 11, 2024
