'Sex With Pornstar, Very Bad Palestinian, You're Loser': Top Quotes Of Trump, Biden From US Prez Debate

The first general election debate of the 2024 season came to a close, with US President Joe Biden and his Republican rival, Donald Trump, launching personal attacks on each other in Atlanta on Thursday. The debate, viewed by millions of people on TV and social media platforms, covered a range of issues. Here are some of the top quotes from the US presidential debate:

‘You’re the sucker! You’re the loser’

“I was recently in France for a day, and I spoke well about those heroes that died. I went to the World War Two cemetery, World War One cemetery, he refused to go to,” Biden said during the Thursday night debate in Atlanta. “My son was not a loser, was not a sucker,” Biden said, referring to his late son Beau who deployed to Iraq in the Army. “You’re the sucker! You’re the loser!” Biden went on.

‘Sex with a pornstar’

“How many billions of dollars do you owe in civil penalties? For molesting a woman in public? For doing a whole range of things? Having sex with a pornstar, while your wife was pregnant?” Biden said about Trump’s alleged sexual encounter with adult film star Stormy Daniels in the mid-2000s. Trump denied Biden’s claim.

Ukraine War

“If we had a real president, the president that … was respected by Putin, he would have never invaded Ukraine,” Trump said of Biden, kicking off a series of clashes between the two candidates over the wars in Ukraine and in Gaza. “Go ahead, let Putin go in and control Ukraine, and then move on to Poland and other places. See what happens then. He has no idea what the hell he’s talking about,” Biden said of Trump.

Israel-Palestine

Trump repeated claims that “Israel would have never been invaded in a million years by Hamas” militants had he been president. “He’s become like a Palestinian. But they don’t like him because he’s a very bad Palestinian. He’s a weak one,” Trump said of Biden.

On China

Trump claimed Biden is afraid to deal with China because he “gets money from them.” “We now have the largest deficit in the history of our country. We have the largest deficit with China. He gets paid by China. He’s a Manchurian candidate. He gets money from China,” Trump said.

Inflation

“He’s done a poor job and inflation is killing our country. It is absolutely killing us,” said Trump, who was president from 2017-2021. Under his own watch, Trump said, “Everything was rocking good.” “The economy collapsed” under Trump, Biden said, and when he came into office “what we had to do is try to put things back together again.”

Thursday’s debate in Atlanta offered an opportunity for both candidates to sway undecided votes and reassure Americans of their suitability for the Oval Office.