12:22 P.M. EDT
Q Mr. President, if Trump wins, will you attend his inauguration, sir, for the peaceful transfer of power? If Trump wins — thank you, sir, for coming over. If Trump wins, will you attend his inauguration?
THE PRESIDENT: I have good manners, not like him.
Q And also, sir, you call him a “genuine danger to American security,” but you’ve asked for the political rhetoric to be tamped down, to be cooled down. Is that cooling down the rhetoric?
THE PRESIDENT: That’s just a statement. That’s a factual statement.
(Cross-talk.)
Q What do you think of — what do you think of Ukraine’s operation into the Kursk region?
THE PRESIDENT: I’d rather not comment on that publicly.
Q President Biden, how much more progressive is Vice President Harris than you as a candidate in the general?
THE PRESIDENT: The issues we’ve worked on together have made great progress economically. No one called what we did on infrastructure “progressive.” It’s a good policy. So that’s what (inaudible).
12:23 P.M. EDT Official news published at https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/08/13/remarks-by-president-biden-before-marine-one-departure-51/
