Former President Donald Trump criticized President Joe Biden’s Oval Office address on his exit from the 2024 election, calling it a “terrible” speech and accusing Democrats of staging a coup against Biden to get out of the race.
During an interview Thursday morning on “Fox & Friends, Trump said that the abrupt end of his presidential campaign on Wednesday night left more questions than answers.
“I think it was a coup. They didn’t want him running. He was way down in the polls, and they thought he was going to lose,” Trump said. “They went to him and they said, you can’t win the race, which I think is true, unless I did something very foolish, which I wasn’t going to do, and I think he was so far down and they said, ‘You’re not going to win, and you’re not in great shape, and you did poorly in the debate.’ I think the debate started everything.”
“I knew there was a palace coup going on, and I assumed that she’d be probably getting it. She had the advantage,” Trump said of Vice President Kamala Harris.
First Lady Jill Biden made her first formal announcement following her husband Joe Biden’s announcement that he will not be running for president in 2024.
The first lady expressed her “full of gratitude” for everyone who has supported her and her husband throughout his first three and a half years in office in a message on Wednesday night to X, the old Twitter. Additionally, she reaffirmed her support for Vice President Kamala Harris, who as of Monday had amassed enough delegates to be officially nominated by the Democratic Party.
The First Lady’s X post also included a handwritten copy of the statement. It was published minutes after the president gave his first speech to the country since withdrawing from the 2024 presidential campaign.