Former President Donald Trump has chosen to turn President Joe Biden’s criticism to his advantage, after the U.S. leader chose to mock his predecessor as “the great MAGA king.”
Biden labeled Trump with the nickname in a speech at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers conference in Chicago on May 11, while touting his achievement of reducing the federal deficit.
“Under my predecessor, the great MAGA king, the deficit increased every single year he was president. The first year of my presidency—the first year, I reduced the deficit—literally reduced the deficit by $350 billion,” Biden said.
In response, Trump took to his Truth Social account and posted a meme—a bearded Trump holding a sword in a modified version of a poster depicting Aragorn for the 2003 movie “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.”
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