President Trump on Thursday told reporters that Joe Biden was “the same guy I had been watching for a long time” when he last met with Biden in 2024, denying that he was having cognitive health issues. Clearly, Biden was out to lunch for four years, but Trump says he was just “never the sharpest guy.”This is a departure from Trump’s previous antics of imitating Biden on stage at his rallies. Trump used to routinely mock Biden for getting lost on stage during speaking engagements, once telling the crowd, “Does anybody think he’s going to make it to the starting gate? I mean, the guy can’t find his way off of a stage.”“It wasn’t like he was ‘sharp as a tack,’ but no, he was the same guy,” Trump told reporters before referencing his debate against Biden in July 2024. “Something happened to him during the debate. It could have been me. I had a very good debate.”“The question is, did he do badly because he choked or because he didn’t have it? I would say this, he did not have a good night,” Trump added.When asked if he was “slowing down,” Trump said, “I thought he was fine. When I say fine, I mean, was he like talking to Doug Burgum? Was he like talking to Chris? Was he like talking to any of these monsters up here, all these tremendous politicians and environmental geniuses? Was he like talking to Andy Barr? No! He was fine.”WATCH:Decker: Jill Biden is out promoting a new book this week. When you met with Joe Biden, President Joe Biden, right here in the Oval Office on November 13, 2024, could you detect any cognitive decline in President Biden at that time?Trump: No, not really. He was the same guy I had been watching for a long time. I mean, you could go back 40 years. I watched him 40 years ago, 30 years ago. He was never the sharpest guy. You do know that, right? It wasn’t like he was ‘sharp as a tack,’ but no, he was the same guy. He actually invited me here before the election, which was strange. You know, we weren’t here before, but also, as you know, we did the ritual, but he was fine as far as I was concerned. I don’t know, something happened to him during the debate. It could have been me. I had a very good debate. Nobody ever says that. They say that Biden did badly. What about me? Did I do well? You know, there’s a reason he did badly. So, the question is, did he do badly because he choked or because he didn’t have it? I would say this, he did not have a good night.Decker: During that time period when you met with him for about two hours, you didn’t feel he was slowing down?Trump: He spoke softly, very softly, and as we started to speak, you know, I mentioned this to people. He spoke very, very softly, very low, and as we talked we got along really well, and he was fine. I thought he was fine. When I say fine, I mean was he like talking to Doug Burgum? Was he like talking to Chris? Was he like talking to any of these monsters up here, all these tremendous politicians and environmental geniuses? Was he like talking to Andy Barr? No! He was fine.!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src="https://rumble.com/embedJS/u2vbt6g"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+"/?url="+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+"&args="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, "script", "Rumble");Rumble("play", {"video":"v78n7ig","div":"rumble_v78n7ig"});This comes as Joe’s wife, former First Lady Jill Biden, makes the rounds in news interviews to promote her new book and continues covering up Biden’s poor health while he was President.In a recent interview, Jill Biden claimed that Joe’s debate performance against Trump “frightened” her and that she thought he was having a stroke when his brain broke on stage.Trump responded to Jill’s comments with a zinger, asking, “Did my strong performance in that debate cause him to plain and simple ‘choke,’ leading to his ignominious defeat, or were other reasons the cause?”“Nobody else knows the answer to that, BUT I DO!!!” the President said after trolling the notion that she believed Biden had a stroke but did nothing about it like “any good wife would.”“Oh My God He’s Having a Stroke!” – Jill Biden Says She Was “Frightened” by Joe Biden’s Debate Performance and Thought He Was Stroking Out in New Shock Claim (VIDEO)/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i