It’s hard to determine which Joe Biden gaffe or blunder is his worst — there are too many to choose from.
But Biden’s latest on-camera hysterics may officially take the cake as the worst — and craziest — thing Biden has ever said.
The former president shocked the audience gathered at last Friday’s memorial to honor the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, declaring his own intellectual superiority during his eulogy.
During his speech, Biden shared a lengthy personal story about growing up with a stutter, telling the star-studded audience that people with speech impediments are often dismissed as unintelligent, according to a full transcript published by CBS Chicago.
“Now, if I told you all earlier, when I was a kid, I had a cleft palate or club foot, none of you would have laughed, but it’s okay to laugh at stuttering,” Biden said. “It’s the one place where people think you’re stupid. Oh, really? I’m hell of a lot smarter than most of you.”
Yes, he really said this. Take a look —
Joe Biden just told the attendees at Jesse Jackson's memorial service that they’re dumb
"I am a hell of a lot smarter than most of you."pic.twitter.com/0lGmzCsWff
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Biden also used his speech as a platform to attack the current White House, at one point telling mourners the Trump administration “doesn’t share any of the values that we have,” NBC News reported.
Last Friday’s memorial turned into a circus as Biden, along with Barack Obama used the platform to speak about President Trump instead of the late Rev. Jackson.
Earlier this week, Jesse Jackson Jr., the son of the elder Jackson, ripped into Obama after he said the ex-president used his father’s funeral as a sounding board to bash President Donald Trump.
In a scathing rebuke, Jackson Jr. lit into Obama, Biden and Bill Clinton for using the late civil rights icon’s memorial service to take shots at Trump.
“Yesterday, I listened for several hours to three United States presidents who do not know Jesse Jackson,” Jackson Jr. said Saturday during a private memorial service at Rainbow Push Coalition headquarters in Chicago.
“He maintained a tense relationship with the political order, not because the presidents were white or black, but the demands of our message, the demands of speaking for the least of these — those who are disinherited, the damned, the dispossessed, the disrespected — demanded not Democratic or Republican solutions, but demanded a consistent, prophetic voice that at no point in time ever sold us out as people.
“And it speaks volumes about who the Rev. Jesse Jackson was.”
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Obama used much of his time to eulogize Jackson to take digs at President Trump, calling each day a “new assault on our democratic institutions.”
“Each day, we’re told by those in high office to fear each other and to turn on each other, and that some Americans count more than others, and that some don’t even count at all,” the former president said.
“Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated, and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength. It’s hard to hope in those moments.”
“It’s hard to hope in those moments,” Obama said, adding it was tempting to “maybe just put your head down and wait for the storm to pass.”
Jackson died Feb. 17 at age 84 after a prolonged fight with progressive supranuclear palsy, according to multiple reports.
Jackson, a protégé of Martin Luther King Jr., built the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and launched two White House bids in the 1980s that helped reshape Democratic primary politics.