MSNBC's Alicia Menendez: Biden Plays Chess, Trump Plays 'Hungry Hungry Hippos'

Posted • June 16, 2024: Can you imagine Joe Biden playing chess? Could he beat, say, an average seventh-grader? C'mon, man: I'm serious! Not a joke! But on MSNBC's Saturday edition of The Weekend, co-anchor Alicia Menendez claimed that whereas Biden is playing chess, Donald Trump is -- at best -- playing Hungry Hungry Hippos [billed as a game for "preschoolers."] The daughter of Sen. Bob "Gold Bars" Menendez should describe what game he was playing. She's not in the right place to swagger. Co-host Symone Sanders Townsend chimed in to suggest that the better game analogy for Trump might be the card game Uno.

The comments came in the context of Biden's participation in various recent events, including the G7 summit. Sanders-Townsend suggested that Biden's performance counters any notion that he might be "a little too old." Whuh? Surely Sanders and the rest of the panel have seen this video from the G7 of a dazed and confused Biden doddering away until Italian PM Giorgia Meloni gently rescues him. (…)

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