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Trump trolls Biden with vid of Joe being scolded for coughing into his HAND and ignoring virus advice
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DONALD Trump sarcastically dubbed Joe Biden the Democratic Party’s “Best & Finest” in a tweet that also featured video of the former vice president being scolded for instead of his elbow.
The president posted an to Twitter early Wednesday of coughing often and committing other blunders during different recent television interviews.
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The first clip shows , with the journalist asked former right-hand man if he had been .
Biden says he hasn’t been tested, as he’s experienced no symptoms.
But in an unfortunate display, at other points during the Tapper interview, Biden coughs into his hand — rather than his elbow.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been loudly urging anyone who sneezes or coughs , their elbow or sleeve -- just not their hands.
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"You're supposed to cough into your elbow," Tapper says, lifting his arm up to demonstrate the move.
"I learned that actually at your White House — " he continues, before being cut off by Biden.
"Actually, that's true," the former vice president cut in, lifting his own elbow, before reassuring the concerned journalist that he was alone in his own home.
"It's kind of old school to do it with your hand," Tapper insisted again. "Do it into your elbow, you're supposed to do it."
In another part of the edited clip, originally posted by Dan Scavino, a top aide to Trump, Biden was asked about Trump wanting to give the economy a jump-start by Easter Sunday, despite dire predictions for a lengthier lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak.
“We have to take care of the cure. That will make the problem worse no matter what. No matter what,” Biden tells the show’s hosts.
Separately, during an interview with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, Biden is also seen coughing or clearing his throat several times.
He tells Wallace about Trump: “I just can’t figure the guy. It’s like watching a yo-yo.”
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Biden then says he “shouldn’t have said it that way,” and in a later part of the interview says: “Why doesn’t he just act like a president?”
He then adds: “That’s a stupid way of saying it.”
Wallace and Biden speak over each other and the exchange grows awkward.
When Wallace tells Biden to continue to speak, Biden tells her it’s “probably best I don’t.”
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The video appears to have been pieced together by Grabien Media, a self-described multimedia organization.
Trump retweeted it on Wednesday morning with the caption:
It’s unclear what Trump was trying to dig at Biden for, whether it was his coughing, the remarks about Trump himself or Biden's speaking gaffes.
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Separate from his televised interviews this week, Biden on Wednesday excoriated the coronavirus response of
"While other large states continue to take strong, urgent, and sweeping action to stop the spread of COVID-19, Florida has not," Biden said in a statement.
Biden said governors such as and were stepping up in the Trump administration's "absence."
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