Fact-checking Biden’s State of the Union Address: Examining the Truth on Trump

In a rare contrast between a former president and a sitting one steamrolling toward a 2024 rematch, former President Donald Trump is vowing to fact-check President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech Thursday night.

“This will be an exciting evening,” Trump teased just under an hour before Biden was late to take the podium. “You never know what you’re going to get with Crooked Joe.

“Follow our Play by Play on TRUTH! DJT”

Trump was already hitting Biden before the president even arrived, after he was reportedly blocked by anti-Israel protesters.

“The president is very substantially late,” Trump trolled. “Not a good start, but let’s give him the benefit of the doubt. I’m sure he had very important things to do, but he is just now getting into the car.

“They will have to drive very, very quickly, you just don’t want to be late to the State of the Union. They will need Mario Andretti to be at the wheel of the limo.”

It was not just Biden taking Trump barbs either. “Push back on them” Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., was not spared.

“Maxine Waters, very nice woman, even though she’s constantly saying she wants to beat up or kill people on the opposite side of the aisle,” Trump wrote. “If I ever said that, they would call me an insurrectionist, and all hell would break out!”

But, ultimately, Biden cannot say anything that can measure up, according to Trump.

“There is nothing he can say tonight that can absolve him from letting 15 million people into our country illegally,” Trump posted. “He’ll probably blame me, but I had the safest border in the history of our country, so that won’t go very far!”