Bill Clinton Trending On X For His DNC Speech – “Go To The Nursing Home”

Daily Report August 22,2024

At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 78-year-old former President Bill Clinton gave an emotional and bittersweet speech suggesting that he might not be able to take part any longer.

“I want to say this from the bottom of my heart, I have no idea how many more of these I’ll be able to come to. I started in ’76 and I’ve been [to] every one since — no, ’72. Lord, I’m getting old,” he said in an at-times-extemporaneous 27-minute speech.

“Let’s cut to the chase, I am too old to gild the lily. Two days ago, I turned 78, the oldest man in my family for four generations,” he said.

For 27 minutes, Clinton was the warm-up act for vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz along with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania. Still, it was obvious that the five former presidents who sat on stage together were not alone in watching a president whose health seemed to be declining.

His new grizzled, low-energy look horrified many who turned to social media. As one observer put it: “Clinton looks 10 years older. His voice is slow, his powerful burble rather more raspy and shaky… he’s aged in every dimension.”

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As one X user wrote, “Clinton is shaking while speaking on stage. He should go to the nursing home with Joe.”

Clinton, though, kept her eyes on the outgoing President Biden — who is vacationing in California. Clinton did not weigh in on the internal Democratic debate that led to Biden’s announcement without expressly addressing it, remarking: “I want to thank him for his courage and compassion — plus their class service sacrifice. He definitely stayed the course and he infected a lot of other people.”

As he introduced Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, Clinton mispronounced her first name over and over again. Rogers reflected on the unparalleled backgrounds of Harris and Walz, noting that “two leaders with all-American but still improbable life stories — it can only happen here. Because their careers, after all, began in community, courtrooms and classrooms.

The comment was akin to Clinton — who has a noted penchant for fast food — joking about Harris’s former gig at McDonalds, something that had been riffed on by several speakers during the convention. “Well, I just want to tell you how thrilled I would be when she – President Klobuchar entered the White House if she broke my record as president for spending more time at McDonald’s,” Clinton quipped.

The 44th president made sure to get a dig in at Donald Trump, calling him “a great actor” and telling Democrats not to underestimate the man. “We have seen more than one disastrous election turn on the power of right-wing anger spewing out after our side stayed home,” she told listeners.”

Josh Shapiro, meanwhile, went after Trump as well in his speech and called the former president “a man with no guardrails” that needed to be stopped by electing Harris, which meant defending our democracy.