In a last 2023 Breitbart interview, former President Donald J. Trump related a story about his friendship with Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy. Trump informed reporters that Biden was mentioned by Kennedy as “the dumbest guy in the Senate.”
Trump claimed to know incumbent Democratic President Joe Biden, an octagenarian, “very well” when speaking with Breitbart News in Palm Beach, Florida. They know Biden well enough to call him a “very vicious guy” who has surrounded himself with “vicious people,” but they also say he is “not smart at all.”
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“I ran against him. I got far more votes than I did the first time. I feel I know him very well,” Trump started at the end of 2023 at the interview at Mar-a-Lago.
“A lot of times in dealmaking you know a person better if you’re doing deals than if you’re with that person all the time. He’s surrounded by vicious people, radical left people, and people that are ultimately going to destroy him,” he warned.
“They give no quarter. They’re willing to do anything like weaponize the Justice Department and the FBI and all of those things can come back to hurt Joe and them and everybody else ultimately. There’s a level of viciousness that you don’t see. Joe Biden is a very vicious guy. He’s not a smart guy—not smart at all. All you have to do is look at his academic credentials. But he’s a very vicious guy.”
The 45th President commented on his opponent. Although he is “vicious,” he claimed to have successfully tricked the American people with “this image of ‘nice,'” but Breitbart notes that the late Sen. Kennedy’s remarks sharply refuted this.
“He’s got this image of ‘nice,’ when Ted Kennedy—who I knew very well, he’s a Palm Beach guy, rich family, had a house on the ocean a mile down the road,” Trump recalled.
“I was very friendly with him for various reasons. I said to Ted Kennedy, ‘Who’s the smartest guy in the Senate?’ He gave me a name I won’t tell you because I cannot stand the guy but it was really true he’s a smart guy. Then I said ‘Who’s the dumbest?’ He said ‘Probably Joe.’ I said ‘Who’s Joe?’ He said ‘Joe Biden.’ I said ‘Why is he the dumbest?’ He said ‘It’s because he doesn’t understand concepts, he doesn’t understand policy, and he doesn’t understand anything that is complicated like taxes and various other things.’”
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Trump did draw attention to a troubling element of Kennedy’s character, though, where a darker side was hidden under a false charm.
“But, he said, ‘He’s hale and hearty and well-meant.’ It’s true, sort of, with the smile—you could see a friendliness there, but it’s not friendliness. Ted Kennedy said he’s the dumbest guy in the Senate and now he’s our president.”
