{"id":1515948,"date":"2022-06-14T17:34:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T21:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515948"},"modified":"2022-06-14T17:34:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T21:34:14","slug":"watch-biden-turns-american-city-into-punchline-in-speech-to-big-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-biden-turns-american-city-into-punchline-in-speech-to-big-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Biden Turns American City Into Punchline In Speech To Big Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-biden-turns-american-city-into-punchline-in-speech-to-big-labor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515948&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\">President Joe Biden<\/a> turned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/detroit\">Detroit<\/a> into a punchline in a speech to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/labor-unions\">big labor<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the AFL-CIO, Biden cracked that his former boss always gave him the toughest assignments. Former President Obama, who once reportedly advised to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/shop\/products\/dont-underestimate-biden-t-shirt\">never \u201cunderestimate Joe\u2019s ability to f\u2014 things up,\u201d<\/a> once told his vice president to mend the Motor City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Obama used to give me all the good assignments. Well, I remember one day, he walked in, not a joke and said, \u2018Joe, fix Detroit,\u2019\u201d Biden recalled. \u201cI said, \u2018Ok, no problem.\u2019 No, you think I\u2019m kidding? You think I\u2019m kidding? What I didn\u2019t realize is I didn\u2019t know a lot about the cities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BIDEN: &#8220;Well I remember one day, walked in, not a joke and said, &#8216;Joe, fix Detroit.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Ok, no problem.&#8217; No, you think I&#8217;m kidding? You think I&#8217;m kidding?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I didn&#8217;t realize is (unintelligible) the cities!&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RP68FqRF1u\">pic.twitter.com\/RP68FqRF1u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1536731093310885891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biden even crossed himself as he spoke, seemingly at the thought of the daunting task of addressing the Michigan city\u2019s problems. He was speaking\u00a0at the AFL-CIO convention in Philadelphia, where he urged labor leaders to take up the \u201cfight\u201d in support of his agenda.<\/p>\n<p>If Obama indeed did ask Biden to \u201cfix Detroit,\u201d it appears not to have been a mission he accomplished. In 2020, Detroit had a rate of 2,248.4 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, behind only Memphis as the highest rate in the country among big cities. The same year, Detroit had a homicide rate of 49.7 for every 100,000 people, while the national average was \u00a0just 6.5 per 100,000.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking to the friendly big labor audience, Biden blasted what he decried as the \u201cultra-MAGA\u201d wing of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe in bipartisanship. But I have no illusions about this Republican Party. \u2026 The fact is Republicans in Congress are still in the grip of the ultra-MAGA agenda,\u201d he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Making fun of what was once labor\u2019s biggest stronghold when General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler turned out American cars and assembly line jobs paid big wages didn\u2019t seem to rankle the audience, which laughed along with Biden\u2019s story. Biden\u2019s appearance before the AFL-CIO \u2014 and his staunch support for unions as a whole \u2014 is standard Democratic politics, say conservative critics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven that Big Labor\u2019s forced dues political war chest was critical to putting Joe Biden in the White House, it\u2019s no surprise he is going to the AFL-CIO convention to kiss the ring,\u201d Mark Mix, president of the National Right To Work Committee, said in a statement to The Daily Wire prior to the president\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden turned Detroit into a punchline in a speech to big labor Tuesday. Speaking to the AFL-CIO, Biden cracked that his former boss always gave him the toughest assignments. Former President Obama, who once reportedly advised to never \u201cunderestimate Joe\u2019s ability to f\u2014 things up,\u201d once told his vice president to mend the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1516012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}