President Joe Biden made a quick reference to Donald Trump on Thursday — then quickly dismissed him.
“I have a big fight with the former president, and maybe the president,” he said at an event in Philadelphia, referring to the 2020 campaign battle.
The crowd booed the reference to Trump.
“My blessing, father,” said Biden, then made the sign of the cross:
The sign of the cross has various meanings, from blessing to a means of avoiding evil. Biden, a Catholic, used the moment jokingly, as he did last week when referring to conspiracy theorists Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
He asked the crowd if they remembered his taunts during his State of the Union speech, when he interrupted his speech by shouting “lies!”
The crowd laughed, and Biden made the sign of the cross.
Biden doesn’t like to mention Trump, and often doesn’t use his name when he does.
At one point, Biden referred to him simply as “an ex-husband.”