Stephen Colbert has pored over the launch of Joe Biden's presidential nomination campaign, describing him as a genuine contender but mocking the earnestness of a video he released last week.
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally at Teamsters Local 249 Union Hall April 29, 2019 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. TV host Stephen Colbert has mocked Biden’s campaign video which he compared to a home loan ad. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images Biden went on to draw a comparison between Charlottesville as a historic center of American values in the past with the violence that erupted there in 2017 when a white supremacist rally took place and where neo-Nazis “chanted the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the 30s.”
He then threw to a clip in which Trump defended his comment by stating that the “fine people” reference was about those who came to protest the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue. On Monday, Trump sent a series of critical tweets about the former vice president. One read:"Sleepy Joe Biden is having his first rally in the Great State of Pennsylvania. He obviously doesn't know that Pennsylvania is having one of the best economic years in its history."
It made the audience want to lie down and take a nap