American entrepreneur and GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy blasted President Joe Biden as a "puppet" candidate protected by the country's ruling class.
"There's a myth that President Biden is running for president," Ramaswamy, 37, said to a crowd in a video that was posted on social media Friday. "He's not in a real sense actually running for president. He's propped up as a symbol for the managerial class."
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The oldest president in American history is a representative of that class and the divide it carves through the nation, he said.
It's a myth that Joe Biden is actually running for President. He's not. It's just the managerial class using Joe Biden as a front to advance its own agenda. To them Biden's cognitive impairment isn't a bug. It's a feature. The Administrative state more effectively controls its… pic.twitter.com/sTa59e70CQ
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) May 5, 2023
"I think the real divide, by the way, in this country is not between Republicans and Democrats. I think we make a mistake by seeing it that way," Ramaswamy told onlookers. "It is between the managerial class and the everyday citizen."
This ruling class behind Biden "crushes the will" of everyday citizens, and the group is sheltering the president from challengers, according to Ramaswamy.
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"Why do they say they're not going to have debates? Because they want to protect him," he said. "It's spitting in the face of even the Democrat Party's base to say that they will not allow open debate to decide who they go on to nominate, even though [Marianne Williamson] and RFK, combined, are actually polling not that far away from where President Biden is right now."
"What should I say? Puppet Biden or President Biden? You know we can use them interchangeably," he said.