Exclusive – Donald Trump Recounts How Ted Kennedy Once Told Him Joe Biden Was the ‘Dumbest’ Senator

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Exclusive – Donald Trump Recounts How Ted Kennedy Once Told Him Joe Biden Was the ‘Dumbest’ Senator

Matthew Boyle and Alexander Marlow 9 Jan 2024 Palm Beach, FL

PALM BEACH, Florida — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that years ago when he was a U.S. senator that now-President Joe Biden was regarded by then-Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and his colleagues as the “dumbest” person in the U.S. Senate.

Trump was explaining how Biden is a “very vicious guy” surrounded by “vicious people,” but also noted that Biden is “not smart at all.”

“I ran against him. I got far more votes than I did the first time. I feel I know him very well,” Trump told Breitbart News in an exclusive more-than-two-hour-long interview at Mar-a-Lago just before the new year. “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. 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.”

Trump then said that Biden, while “vicious” in reality, has been able to fool Americans into believing “this image of ‘nice,’” something that Trump says a story from the late Kennedy undercuts.

“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 said. “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.’ 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.”

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[Ghost Bear]

Surely I'm not the only one who remembers that Joe Biden's nickname in the Senate was "Slow Joe"?

[Right_in_Virginia]

Surely I'm not the only one who remembers that Joe Biden's nickname in the Senate was "Slow Joe"?

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Doubt it.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

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.

I'd always thought that 8th grade maturity levels were the sole province of 8th graders.   Unfortunately, Trump shoots that theory all to hell.

[catfish1957]

Surely I'm not the only one who remembers that Joe Biden's nickname in the Senate was "Slow Joe"?

"Plugs" was the memed name I remember the most back then with this mental midget.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

"Plugs" was the memed name I remember the most back then with this mental midget.

I was in law school back during the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings, and Biden was chair (which itself was a disgrace) of the Senate Judiciary Committee.   Obviously, that was a huge topic of discussion.  I can remember classmates of pretty much every political persuasion being stunned at how flat-out dumb he was, and how most first-year law students would have put his knowledge to shame.