First lady Jill Biden claimed Saturday the future of public education in America will remain bright if her husband Joe Biden is re-elected president — while Donald Trump would only bring “chaos and division.”
“I always believed that Joe would be the best education president,” Biden, 72, told a crowd of 1,200 at the United Federation of Teachers’ yearly spring conference in Manhattan.
Trump, on the other hand, “wakes up every morning caring about one person — and one person only — himself,” the Ph.D. educator added, drawing boos from the lefty crowd at the mere mention of the ex-president and presumptive Republican frontrunner.
“Donald Trump doesn’t want to strengthen our public education system — he wants to destroy it,” she continued in a barely camouflaged campaign screed.
“If Donald Trump is re-elected, we get chaos and division,” she claimed.
“A world in which public schools are privatized and their funding is gutted, teachers unions are marginalized and lesson plans are censored and books are banned. In America, we don’t ban books.”
Others in attendance included Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and UFT President Michael Mulgrew.
Biden’s pitch to members of the teachers’ union, long a tool for the Democratic Party, to keep Biden, 81, in the White House came five days before Trump’s scheduled campaign rally in the South Bronx.
The May 23 gathering at Crotona Park will mark the 77-year-old’s first rally in his birth state since 2016 and comes on the heels of a record-breaking event his campaign held at the Jersey Shore last Saturday.
The first lady trekked to New York after spending the past week stumping for the commander in chief in Detroit and other parts of the battleground state of Michigan.
