White House press secretary Jen Psaki took a swipe at Donald Trump on Thursday, saying maybe 'he learned something' when he watched President Joe Biden's remarks on the one-year anniversary of January 6th.
The former president blasted Biden's speech, calling it 'political theater.'
Psaki shrugged off the attack when asked about it in her daily press briefing, saying she was glad Trump watched the speech.
'Maybe he learned something,' she said.
'It looks like he saw the speech, I guess that's good news. Maybe he learned something about what it looks like to meet the moment in the country,' she noted.
Psaki also went after Republican lawmakers, saying they 'need to take a look at themselves and think about what role they want to play in the history books. When their children and grandchildren look at the history books. Do they want to be perpetuating the big lie? Do they want to be walking like the silent lemmings behind the former president?
Jen Psaki took a swipe at Donald Trump, saying maybe 'he learned something' when he watched President Joe Biden's speech
Donald Trump called Biden's speech 'political theater'
President Biden said he didn't mention Trump by name in his speech because he didn't want to start a 'contemporary political battle.'
'I did not want to turn it into a contemporary political battle between me and the president. It's way beyond that. It's way beyond that,' he said in response to a question from DailyMail.com in the halls of the Capitol after his remarks.
He also said he was concerned about a new attitude in politics of it's all about me.
'That's the thing that bothers me most about the sort of attitude that seems to be emerging to some degree in American politics. It's not about you, it's about me. That's how it's viewed. But it's not about me,' he said.
During his speech, Biden tore into Trump for watching TV while a mob stormed the Capitol on January 6, mocked his 'bruised ego' and accused him and his supporters of holding a 'dagger in the throat of democracy.'
In his most searing attack on his predecessor to date, Biden called Trump a 'defeated former president' and criticized him for 'refusing to accept he lost' the November 2020 in remarks on the one-year anniversary of the attack alongside Kamala Harris.
'We saw with our own eyes rioters menace these halls, threatening the life of the Speaker of the House. Literally erecting gallows to hang the vice president of the United States of America,' Biden recalled. 'What did we not see? We didn't see a former president, who just rallied the mob to attack, sitting in a private dining room off the Oval Office in the White House watching it all on television and doing nothing for hours.'
In his speech Biden mentioned his predecessor or former president 16 times - but he never said Trump's name.
But Biden made his remarks at the start of 2022, the year of a midterm election where Republicans are looking to retake control of Congress and Trump is playing a kingmaker role in that party.
In his response, Trump called Biden's speech 'political theater' and a distraction for his failures and doubled down on his false claim he won the 2020 election and the result was rigged.
'This political theater is all just a distraction for the fact Biden has completely and totally
