Trump boasts that his appearance and brain are better than Biden's

President Donald Trump did another research with former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday, claiming that the appearance of the Democratic leader was less clear because of his age.

Trump and Biden are among the oldest White House nominees in 2020. But the president's comment came in the form of a tweet responding to the "Morning Joe" comment, Joe Scarborough, more early Wednesday, according to which Trump "looks like he's about 20 years younger than many Democratic candidates. "

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"It can engage the public," Scarborough said about Trump during the morning show on MSNBC. "It can engage viewers, despite the heinous rhetoric, despite everything else. You can see that guy is getting ready for 2020. And yes, Democrats, it will be hard to beat. "

Trump commented on a tweet a link to a Washington Examiner article summarizing Scarborough's comments and wrote: "Thanks Joe and remember, the brain is much sharper too!"

The president has already briskly boasted about his age at the start of the 2020 primary, comparing himself to the two Democrats whom he considered his most likely challengers in the general election – Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), The Last month, Trump was called "a young and dynamic man," while talking to reporters, saying that Biden and Sanders made him look young and energetic.

Trump would have however told his aides that he considered Biden as his biggest threat in 2020 – perhaps fueling further insults launched against the former vice president. In a speech Tuesday in Louisiana, the president said Sanders "has a lot more energy than Biden.

"But it's the energy of getting rid of your jobs," Trump said in a brutal attack on a group of more than 20 Democratic primary candidates. "It has the opposite energy that you produce. It's not good energy, you do not like its energy. "

The three white men in their seventies, however, are likely to be fighting for overlapping groups of voters to win the blue collar and Rust belt blocks that helped secure Trump's victory in 2016. And Biden and Sanders are faced with a pool of young and diverse primary candidates.

Scarborough released Wednesday an excerpt from Trump's diatribe of the previous day.

"Let's be honest about Donald Trump," he said. "This guy can do in campaign what no one else can do."

The moderator "Morning Joe" has a complicated relationship with the president. Scarborough, his co-host and his wife, Mika Brzezinski, were once Trump's friends, but have been deeply critical of him since joining the White House.

Scarborough is a former Congressman and Republican who announced that he was leaving the GOP to become independent in 2017, claiming that his personal values ​​were at odds with what the party was defending under Trump's leadership.

The president has often launched attacks against "Morning Joe" from his Twitter account during his campaign and presidency, repeatedly criticizing the ratings of the series and calling it "false information."