However, Americans also expect viral moments triggered by the presidential candidate’s comments and facial expressions, especially since none of the candidates are familiar with the virality of social media.
TRUMP’S YOUNG SUPERFAN CRIED DURING MEETING WITH FORMER PRESIDENT
President Biden and former President Trump will face off tonight in the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
On several occasions since Biden began his presidency, the outgoing president has attracted hundreds of thousands of clicks for various speech errors and some falls.
In 2022, Biden recorded a fall from his motorcycle while riding a bicycle in Delaware, which temporarily circulated on social media platforms.
Last summer, Biden drew social media attention when he tripped and jumped to the level at an Air Force Academy graduation ceremony.
Last weekend, Trump went viral for a moment shared with a young fan in Philadelphia, where the boy was wearing a Trump-style suit and wig. The boy met the former president, who signed and presented him with a $20 bill, and the exchange was filmed. It garnered nearly 900,000 views on X on Sunday at noon.
“I love this child! So if your parents don’t need you, I’ll take you,” Trump said in the video.
PRESIDENT BIDEN ALMOST FELL WHILE CLIMBING THE STAIRS OF AIR FORCE ONE
Biden has gone viral for his falls several times since he became president (Fox News).
In 2023, after his arrest in Fulton County, Georgia, Trump’s photo went viral and has since been used to personalize coffee mugs, sweatshirts, and T-shirts, in addition to those sold on his own crusade’s website.
Although there will be no hearing tonight in Atlanta at CNN’s Midtown studio and microphones will be controlled by media staff, audiences around the world will be watching applicants for their contradictory reactions to one another, especially the unapologetic expressions provided through Triumph.
Here are some of the former president’s most memorable facial expressions beyond the presidential debates.
During the September 29, 2020 presidential debate between Trump and Biden, hosted via Fox News, Biden said about Trump the COVID-19 pandemic: “He said publicly and told one of his colleagues, recorded, that he truly knew how harmful it was, but he didn’t need to tell us, he didn’t need to tell us because he didn’t need us to panic. “
And he added: “He didn’t need us. Americans aren’t panicking. He has panicked,” adding that Trump “still doesn’t have a plan” about the next steps to combat the disease at that point.
Trump reacts to Biden by saying he has “no plans” for a presidential debate in 2020 (Fox News).
During the same Sept. 29, 2020, presidential debate, the moderator asked Trump if he would tell Americans how many federal income taxes he paid in 2016 and 2017, to which he replied, “Millions of dollars. “
And he added: “And to be able to see it. “
In late 2022, Democrats released Trump’s tax returns and returned their public finances to the American people, even as Trump worked to avoid them in court.
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Trump reacts to a question about his federal tax returns in a 2020 presidential debate (Fox News).
In a 90-minute presidential debate hosted via CNN on October 9, 2016 in St. Louis, the U. S. Louis, Hillary Clinton and Trump clashed over issues such as taxes, a Muslim ban, Syrian refugees and two-faced politicians, among other issues.
At the start of the debate, Clinton said, “It’s extraordinarily smart that Donald Trump’s temper is not up to the law in our country. ”
Trump replied threateningly, “Because I’m in jail. “
Later in the debate, the former secretary of state said, “Well, everything you’ve heard from Donald is not true. I’m sorry to have to keep saying this, but he’s living in a real exchange and it’s kind of funny to hear someone who hasn’t paid federal income taxes in maybe 20 years talk about what he’s going to do, but I’ll tell you what he’s going to do. “
He continued, “His plan will give the wealthy and corporations the biggest tax cuts they’ve ever had, more than Bush’s tax cuts, by at least two. “
Trump responded to her comments by saying, “I perceive the tax code to be bigger than whoever has ever run for president” and said he will pay “a lot of taxes. “
Donald Trump listens to Hillary Clinton answer a question from the audience at the presidential debate. (Reuters/Rick Wilking/File)
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are represented in their second presidential debate. (Robyn Beck/AFP Getty Images)
During the last presidential debate between Trump and Biden on Oct. 22, 2020, at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, the former president and the current president were at odds over energy policies when Biden said he was looking to move away from fossil fuels.
Biden said of Trump, “He’s going to give federal subsidies to gas, sorry, sun and wind,” to which Trump responded with “Oooh!two or three times. “
Trump reacts to Biden’s comments at a presidential debate hosted via ABC in 2020 (ABC).
The first presidential debate between Clinton and Trump drew more than a million viewers.
During the Sept. 26, 2016, debate, Clinton said of the former president, “Donald believes climate replacement is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese,” to which Trump subtly raised his eyebrows and added, “I didn’t say that. “”
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Trump reacts to Clinton’s comments about climate replacement at a 2016 NBC presidential debate. (NBC)
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