President Trump was spilling tea during a wide-ranging interview with The Spectator magazine.
Trump wondered if Joe Biden would have made it through Election Day if he had performed better during the now-infamous debate, according to a teaser of the interview that was just released.
“It was just too bad,” Trump said of Biden’s ouster, and his un-democratic replacement with Kamala Harris.
The Spectator’s Ben Domenech then mentioned that he thought Biden “looked pretty happy” while meeting Trump after he had won the election, which prompted Trump to dish more.
“But I asked him, you know, I went to the White House a few months before this all happened…,” Trump started. “But I went there and he asked for a meeting, and I went and we talked for a little while, and at first I couldn’t… You couldn’t… He talked so low,” Trump said.
“And then he started getting more. And I asked him, I said, ‘So who do you blame?’ Because he was very angry, you know, he was a very angry guy, actually. And he said, ‘I blame Barack.’ And I never think of him as ‘Barack.’ You know, you always hear ‘Obama.’ You say, you have to think about that for a second. And he said, ‘And I also blame Nancy Pelosi.’”
Biden let Kamala Harris off the hook according to Trump’s recollection.
“I said, ‘What about the vice president?’” recalled the president. “He said, ‘No, I don’t blame her,’ which was interesting. Yeah. He didn’t blame her. He blamed… he told me he blamed those two people.”
And there you have it.
Meanwhile, Domenech celebrated his big score with the Trump interview on X along with his wife Meghan McCain.
“I had two jobs: to run the country and to survive. And it was vicious.” – @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/LiasZJFiP1
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) February 28, 2025
My husband @bdomenech conducted @POTUS first sit down magazine interview of his new administration. I got a preview and it’s amazing. Article comes out next week in the @spectator! pic.twitter.com/48KeIjaeji
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) February 28, 2025
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