With biting humor, Joe Biden referred to his opponent in the November 5 presidential election, Donald Trump, during the dinner of the Gridiron Club, a tradition since 1880 in Washington.

“One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me,” joked the 81-year-old Biden, referring to Trump’s insults, who has also repeatedly hinted that he thinks his Democratic rival is on the verge of dementia, if he isn’t already.

The dinner was attended by about 650 guests, including Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and TikTok CEO Xu Zhichu, whose platform is at risk of going bankrupt. banned in the US by presidential decree.

Donald Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond when asked by Reuters for comment.

Trump: “If I’m not elected, there will be a massacre”

Meanwhile, during a pre-election event of his party in Vandelia, in the state of Ohio (north), the former US president and Republican candidate in the presidential elections of November 5 in the US, called the upcoming vote “a turning point in the history of the country” , warning of “carnage” for the American economy if he does not prevail in the elections.

“November 5th will be the most important date in the history of our country,” said Donald Trump.

Boasting that his victory in the Republican primary was “the fastest ever,” he pointed out that the 2020 rematch is more than seven months away.

This period of time is an entire “eternity” when in power are “incompetent guys” who lead the country to the precipice, he threw.

Railing against plans by “the Chinese” to build cars in Mexico and sell them to Americans, he said: “They won’t be able to sell us these vehicles if I’m elected.”

“If I’m not elected, there’s going to be carnage in the country,” Donald Trump continued, seeming to discount a rapidly worsening economic situation. He specifically focused on what he described as threats to the American auto industry, which he says will be neglected if Joe Biden is elected.

Trump’s team responded by releasing a statement calling Donald Trump the “loser” of the 2020 presidential election, who is “doubling down on his threats of political violence.”

“He wants another January 6th,” Joe Biden’s campaign added, referring to Donald Trump’s attack on the federal Capitol in 2021, “but the American people will hand him another electoral defeat in November because they continue to reject his extremism, the his penchant for violence, his thirst for revenge.”

The rematch of the 2020 election does not exactly excite voters in the US, if one believes the polls, especially because of the advanced age of the two candidates: Joe Biden is 81 years old, Donald Trump is 77. However, the conflict is announced to be extremely tough and sure there will be no shortage of attacks on each other for their physical and mental state.