Joe Biden Mocks Donald Trump for Nikki Haley Gaffe in New Video

President Biden mocked former President Donald Trump for confusing his GOP opponent Nikki Haley with former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday.

With Biden and Trump previously calling each other a threat to democracy, the president has made it clear who his target is in the 2024 presidential election before a Republican nominee has been even picked. While the 2024 race is still in its early stages, with the New Hampshire primary election on Tuesday, it's projected that Biden and Trump will likely have a re-match for the presidency.

Both physical and mental fitness have been a major talking point of the 2024 election as Trump is 77 years old and Biden is 81 years old. Biden has been mocked for tripping up Air Force One on multiple occasions and flubbing speeches. Meanwhile, #TrumpMentalHealth has been used by the former president's critics on social media posts that question his mental state.

While on the campaign trail in Keene, New Hampshire, on Saturday, Haley, a former South Carolina governor and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, pointed out a blunder that Trump made the night before about her. At a rally in Concord, New Hampshire, on Friday night, Trump seemed to confuse Haley with Pelosi.

Biden posted clips from Trump's and Haley's speeches in his Sunday video that attacks Trump's cognitive abilities.

The president's video starts with Haley telling a crowd in Keene, "Last night, Trump is at a rally."

Then, the video cuts to Trump's speech in Concord: "You know, Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley."

"And he's going on-and-on, mentioning me multiple times as to why I didn't handle January 6 better," the video cuts back to Haley saying.

Jumping back to Trump's speech, the former president says: "Nikki Haley is in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people. They don't want to talk about that."

"I wasn't in office then. They're saying he got confused," Haley said in the next clip.

Biden wrote in the post alongside the video: "I don't agree with Nikki Haley on everything, but we agree on this much: She is not Nancy Pelosi."

Newsweek reached out to Biden's, Trump's, and Haley's campaigns via email for comment.

In his rally speech on Friday, Trump was presumably referring to his previous accusations that then-House Speaker Pelosi turned down 10,000 National Guardsmen to be ready for January 6, 2021. On that fateful day, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C., to stop the certification of Biden's 2020 election win. The riot erupted following Trump's repeated claims that the election was stolen from him due to widespread voter fraud, despite there being a lack of evidence.

The House select committee that investigated the events surrounding January 6, meanwhile, found no evidence that suggested Trump gave an order to have those troops ready.

Meanwhile, Biden's Sunday video included other gaffes Trump previously made.

In one clip, Trump says, "You have voter ID to buy a loaf of bread. You have, you have ID to buy a loaf of bread." The former president has repeatedly argued that people need ID to buy groceries.

Another clip shows the former president saying at a rally in Waterloo, Iowa, "I'm driving over a road where it's almost all paper. And you know, you can see paper. I know paper. I know cans."

Haley criticized Trump's mental fitness in Keene on Saturday: "The concern I have is— I'm not saying anything derogatory—but when you're dealing with the pressures of the presidency, we can't have someone else that we question whether they're mentally fit to do this. We can't."

Meanwhile, Trump said at a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Saturday night that he "aced" a cognitive test.

"I'll let you know when I go bad. I really think I'll be able to tell you," he said. "I feel my mind is stronger now than it was 25 years ago. Is that possible?"

In 2018, Dr. Ronny Jackson, then the White House physician, administered the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) to him, a test designed to screen for mild cognitive dysfunction. Trump scored 30 out of 30 on the test, which Jackson stated was evidence of the president's sound cognitive abilities. "The president is mentally very sharp, very intact," Jackson told reporters at the time.

However, some medical professionals caution that the MoCA is not a comprehensive assessment of cognitive function and is typically used to detect early signs of dementia, not to measure intelligence or an individual's fitness for a specific job. Moreover, cognitive abilities can change over time.

What the Polls Show

Polling data has shown that voters have expressed concerns about the age and mental fitness of Biden and Trump. A Politico/Morning Consult poll conducted in July 2021 found that 48 percent of voters disagreed with the statement that Biden is "mentally fit," while 46 percent disagreed with the statement that he is "in good health." Similarly, a September 2020 Hill-HarrisX poll found that 56 percent of voters believed that Trump showed signs of mental decline.

These concerns about age and mental fitness are not limited to Biden and Trump. A Pew Research Center survey conducted in 2020 found that 63 percent of registered voters said it was important for presidential candidates to release detailed personal health information.