Joe Biden wearing the Trump 2024 hat during Wednesday’s 9/11 memorial event is another viral moment from the upcoming presidential election saga. The 46th U.S. president briefly put on Donald Trump’s MAGA campaign hat during the commemoration ceremony while visiting firefighters in Pennsylvania. The event happened near the area where one of the four planes crashed during the national tragedy. Now, the unexpected incident of the president wearing the Trump 2024 hat has generated speculation and discussions about Biden‘s political stance in this year’s race between Trump and Kamala Harris.
Joe Biden wears a MAGA hat at 9/11 memorial event
As surprising as it may come, President Joe Biden wore a 2024 Donald Trump MAGA hat during the 9/11 memorial event as a sign of unity. While meeting with firefighters at Pennsylvania’s Shanksville Fire Station, Biden swapped his headgear with a Trump supporter present at the ceremony. In doing so, the 81-year-old Democrat put on the Trump 2024 hat in the spirit of unity theme, clarified a White House official later. The gesture came shortly after POTUS talked about America’s bipartisan unity that happened following the September 11 attacks and the country’s need to regain the same kind of harmony.
Videos from inside the fire station of the minutely comical incident involving Joe Biden and the Trump hat quickly went viral online. Clips from the ceremony showed Biden speaking to the firefighters and the crowd and exchanging a few words with a man wearing the red Donald Trump 2024 hat. POTUS then gave the man a hat that carried the presidential seal and his autograph, and he took his hat in return. Reportedly, this man’s daughter claims the president kept the Trump MAGA hat afterward.
The White House released an official statement on X (formerly Twitter), explaining why Joe Biden wore the Trump hat. Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates wrote in a post, “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.”
Joe Biden previously dropped out of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, paving the way for VP Kamala Harris to run against former president Donald Trump in the race. The election will take place on November 5.
