President Joe Biden took his appreciation of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s backhanded boasts about his first term in office from a viral Twitter one-liner to a full stand-up bit, drawing laughter and some applause Thursday during a speech in Philadelphia.
“As you may have seen — apparently 40 million people watched — Marjorie Taylor Greene, the very conservative gentlelady from the state of Georgia, said, ‘Biden is doing things like Roosevelt,’” Biden said while he toured the Philly Shipyard.
“I’d never had an endorsement from her before,” the 46th president joked.
Biden was at the Philly Shipyard, speaking to workers and promoting his administration’s efforts to invest in clean energy jobs.
During a speech July 16 at the conservative Turning Point Action conference in Florida, the far-right congresswoman said Biden has been working to finish what President Franklin D. Roosevelt began and what President Lyndon B. Johnson “expanded on” by investing in social…
