A Republican lawmaker on Tuesday took the latest right-wing conspiracy theory about President Joe Biden to a fizzy new level by claiming he would be jacked up on soda for this weeks debate against Donald Trump .
Trumps team should not underestimate Joe Biden and his teams ability to, yknow, whether theyre gonna jack him up on Mountain Dew or whatever it is, Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) said on Fox Business. Look, the State of the Union this year, he had a lot of energy for about an hour. Or an hour and a half.
The Mountain Dew line may have been a reference to the Will Ferrell movie Talladega Nights.
However, Trump and his allies including multiple Fox News personalities have suggested Biden will take something, possibly caffeine, to get jacked up for the debate.
Trump has even called for a drug test before the event.
These claims come after Trump supporters have spent years attacking Bidens cognition, while ignoring growing concerns that Trumps own brainpower has diminished .
Burlisons comments fell flat on X as critics took the fizz out of the attack:
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