August 13, 2024 Remarks by President Biden Before Marine One Departure

 August 13, 2024

Remarks by President Biden Before Marine One Departure

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12:22 P.M. EDT

Q    Mr. President, if Trump wins, will you attend his inauguration, sir, for the peaceful transfer of power?  If Trump wins — thank you, sir, for coming over.  If Trump wins, will you attend his inauguration?

THE PRESIDENT:  I have good manners, not like him.

Q    And also, sir, you call him a “genuine danger to American security,” but you’ve asked for the political rhetoric to be tamped down, to be cooled down.  Is that cooling down the rhetoric?

THE PRESIDENT:  That’s just a statement.  That’s a factual statement.

(Cross-talk.)

Q    What do you think of — what do you think of Ukraine’s operation into the Kursk region?

THE PRESIDENT:  I’d rather not comment on that publicly.

Q    President Biden, how much more progressive is Vice President Harris than you as a candidate in the general?

THE PRESIDENT:  The issues we’ve worked on together have made great progress economically.  No one called what we did on infrastructure “progressive.”  It’s a good policy.  So that’s what (inaudible).

12:23 P.M. EDT