Former President Donald Trump is shooting back at President Joe Biden’s campaign, which alleged that he froze while delivering a speech at an NRA event this weekend.
In a post on Truth Social Sunday evening, Trump said that Biden’s team was pushing a “fake story,” noting that he didn’t freeze during his speech in Dallas.
“My Speech in Dallas this weekend at the NRA’s ‘Endorsement of President Donald J. Trump,’ was attended by a Record Crowd of very enthusiastic Patriots,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The freeze in question came during Trump’s speech, when he appeared to pause while music played, shaking his head in what appeared to be frustration.
Biden’s team quickly cut the clip and shared it on social media, saying that Trump played “QAnon music during his bizarre slur-filled NRA speech.”
“The Biden Campaign, however, put out a Fake Story that I ‘froze’ for 30 seconds, going into the ‘Musical Interlude’ section, when in actuality, the 30 to 60 second period of silence is standard in every one of my Speeches where we use the Music,” Trump said in his post.
The music that can be heard in the background regularly plays during Trump’s campaign speeches, usually signaling the end of his prepared remarks.
However, the pause was longer than usual, and it was not immediately clear what prompted it.
Still, Trump said in his post that the Biden campaign was deflecting, trying to find moments they could claim he showed his age, 77, to take pressure off the 81-year-old president and the concerns people have about his health.
“The reason they came up with this Disinformation is that Biden freezes all the time, can’t put two sentences together, and can rarely find his way off the stage without help,” Trump said in his post. “Donald Trump doesn’t freeze! It is a MADE UP Biden Campaign story, put out in a dying Newspaper that I never heard of, and every Reporter knows it, including the large group that was there.”
Biden’s team responded to Trump’s response from over the weekend in another post on X on Monday.
“Trump melts down over this clip we posted showing himself freezing on stage, claiming it’s a ‘Fake Story’ (He did, in fact, freeze on stage),” the post said.