Biden Sports Trump Campaign Hat, Sending His Supporters Into Meltdown; White House Clarifies

Pictures of US President Joe Biden wearing Donald Trump’s campaign hat surfaced on social media sending his supporters into a meltdown. In the photos, Biden is seen wearing a bright red hat that bears the words “Trump 2024”.

The X account of Trump War Room shared the image on the microblogging site writing, “Thanks for the support, Joe!”. One user wrote, “Finally hopped on board!” while another pronounced Biden’s wearing a Trump hat as “the smartest thing he’s done in his entire political career.”

The Biden campaign clarified the picture saying it had been a “spontaneous gesture” by the president to promote “bipartisan unity”.

White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said Biden had sported the hat during his visit to Shanksville Fire Station, following his appearance at a 9/11 memorial service.

“At the Shanksville Fire Station, @POTUS spoke about the country’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that. As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS should put on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it,” Bates wrote in an X post.

A video also surfaced on the internet showing the full exchange of the incident leading up to Joe Biden putting on a “Trump 2024” hat.

Many users said they “respected” Biden for how gracefully he handled the situation.