President Biden told auto union workers in Michigan that Americans “don’t feel so good” in a bizarre incident on Thursday – before being jeered by anti-Israel jeers hours later in critical condition.
“Remember when they told us we were dead — manufacturing was dead in America, China was going to eat our lunch?” Biden said the event with the United Auto Workers. “Guess what, buddy? We don’t taste good.”
Soon after, the 81-year-old commander-in-chief received heat from a group of protesters as he visited a restaurant north of Detroit with members of the UAW, which last week supported his re-election campaign.
“Genocide Joe: How many children have you killed today?” protesters chanted, along with “F— Joe Biden” — repeating slogans from two major marches to the White House against Biden’s support for Israel’s invasion of Hamas-ruled Gaza following the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 massacre of some 1,200 and the kidnapping of about 250 others in southern Israel.
Michigan has a large Arab American population and polls show a large cohort of the group is considering opposing Biden over the war in Gaza.
President Biden speaks to members of the United Auto Workers at the UAW National Training Center in Warren, Michigan on February 1, 2024. Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images Biden speaks to diners at the They Say restaurant in Harper Woods, Michigan. Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
Biden joked about Americans not feeling very good after he had previously used a lunch analogy to say that China was not an economic threat – as then-President Donald Trump launched a tariff-driven trade war in an attempt to force a lucrative trade pact with Beijing .
“China will eat our lunch? Come on, man — they can’t figure out how to deal with the fact that they have this great divide between the China Sea and the mountains in the West,” Biden said as a candidate in 2019.
“They cannot figure out how they will deal with the corruption that exists in the system. They’re not bad guys, man… They’re no competition for us.”
A pro-Palestinian protest outside the UAW union hall during Biden’s visit. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook A protester with a sign accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza. Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images A protester holds a sign calling on voters to “Ditch Biden” because of his support for Israel. Reuters
After entering the White House, Biden returned to the luncheon when he discussed China as he supported successful legislation to increase environmental and infrastructure spending.
“If we don’t move, they’re going to eat our lunch,” Biden said in 2021. “They’re investing billions of dollars to deal with various issues related to transportation, the environment and various other things. We just need to improve.”
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