Donald Trump really thinks he has something with his insistence that former Vice President Joe Biden should take a drug test before Tuesday night’s debate. But the Biden campaign, in peak form, simply destroyed Trump’s line of attack in the best way possible: by mocking the crap out of it. Well, actually, by taking the piss out of it.
Demanding a drug test is Trump’s effort to walk back his months of insistence that Biden is experiencing severe cognitive decline—attacks that seemed like a great idea to Trump until he was suddenly faced with the prospect of voters watching the two men debate and making up their own minds about their comparative cognitive function. Then, to raise expectations for Biden’s performance, Trump started insisting that debate performance-enhancing drugs must be involved.
“I will be strongly demanding a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to, or after, the Debate on Tuesday night. Naturally, I will agree to take one also,” Trump tweeted. “His Debate performances have been record setting UNEVEN, to put it mildly. Only drugs could have caused this discrepancy???”
“Vice President Biden intends to deliver his debate answers in words. If the president thinks his best case is made in urine he can have at it,” Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s deputy campaign manager, responded. “We’d expect nothing less from Donald Trump, who pissed away the chance to protect the lives of 200K Americans when he didn't make a plan to stop COVID-19.”
Is it just me or is there a very subtle golden showers allusion in there? But seriously, please, please let us not see Donald Trump making his case in urine during the debate. Either way, standing ovation for the Biden campaign for both the attention-grabbing knockout first line and the pivot to COVID-19 of the closer.