President Biden broke necks when he put on a red MAGA hat … but he’s not switching teams — the White House says it was in the spirit of bringing both sides of the aisle together.
POTUS was photographed Wednesday wearing a Donald Trump 2024 lid at a fire station in Shanksville, Pennsylvania … and it quickly went viral.
At the Shanksville Fire Station, @POTUS spoke about the country’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that.
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. He briefly wore it. https://t.co/7VKZnkVMY7
— Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) September 11, 2024
@AndrewJBates46
White House spokesperson Andrew Bates explained the lead-up to the photo … saying Biden was speaking about America’s bipartisan unity after 9/11 and the need to return to that strength, when he gave a Trump supporter a hat to wear … and was then given a MAGA hat in exchange.
Biden briefly wore the hat in a gesture of unity, the White House says … this all happened while POTUS was chatting with firefighters near where United Flight 93 crashed during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
ABC
Trump joked about sending Kamala Harris a MAGA hat during Tuesday’s heated presidential debate, which got nasty at times … but Trump and Harris played nice Wednesday during a 9/11 commemorative ceremony in New York City.
ABC
Biden was there too alongside Harris … and he kept it civil with Trump, who ripped him multiple times on the debate stage the night before.
C-SPAN
Trump’s also heading to Pennsylvania to visit the Flight 93 National Memorial in Somerset County … so we’ll see if he’s preaching unity and donning a Harris hat.