50 Cent has slammed Joe Biden for taking another beach vacation in Delaware while the war between Israel and Hamas rages.
The rapper, 48, used a photo of the president from June to reference his most recent trip to the coast over the weekend.
The President reached 1,000 days in office last Tuesday and an analysis of White House reports showed at least 300 of those were spent on holiday.
‘Hey Joe get the f*** up, we in trouble man!’ 50 Cent posted on Instagram with a screenshot from an article titled ‘Biden hits the beach with Middle East, Congress in Chaos.’
Although the rapper referenced a June photo of Biden at the beach – and was flagged for misinformation – the President did spend the weekend in Delaware.
Conservative influencers also flocked to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to throw their support behind the rapper.
The rapper 50 Cent – real name Curtis James Jackson III – caused a firestorm on social media over the weekend over two posts slamming President Biden’s most recent beach vacation
In one Instagram post, the musician referenced an outdated photo of Biden at the beach and wrote: ‘Hey Joe get the f*** up, we in trouble man!’
He followed up with another post reading: ‘We got some real s*** going on out here Joe. What’s the plan to get a tan and chill come on now’
Several were quick name Trump amid the Israel-Hamas conflict that has seen 1,400 Israelis dead and over 5,000 killed on the Palestinian side.
‘Imagine how many people would be alive today in Europe and the Middle East if Trump had stayed in office and these wars never occurred,’ Jack Posobeic, former Navy intelligence officer and editor for conservative website Human Events, wrote.
Alex Brusewitz, CEO of political consulting company X Strategies LLC, echoed the sentiment: ‘Rapper 50 Cent calls out Joe Biden for sleeping on the beach while our country and world suffers because of his failures.’
In a follow-up post that included screenshot of an article titled ’50 Cent flames Biden,’ the rapper added: ‘We got some real s*** going on out here Joe. What’s the plan to get a tan and chill come on now.’
While this post garnered support, it also saw some pushback. ‘So nobody saw Trump take 1,000+ golf trips during his Presidency…OK,’ one user wrote.
One went so far as to post: ’50 FOR PRESIDENT.’
The rapper formerly endorsed Trump but backtracked his support in 2020 based on misinformation about Biden’s proposed tax plans.
Former Navy intelligence officer Jack Posobeic echoed the sentiment, criticizing Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict
Conservative influencer Alex Brusewitz referenced the rapper’s post and slammed Biden for ‘sleeping on the beach while our country and world suffers because of his failures’
The ‘In da Club’ rapper endorsed Trump before backtracking in 2020
President Biden was seen relaxing near his beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on July 30, 2023
Biden was spotted on the same beach three days later. The above photo was mistakenly referenced in the rapper’s Instagram post
‘F*** Donald Trump, I never liked him,’ 50 Cent wrote on X. ‘For all I know he had me set up and had my friend Angel Fernandez killed but that’s history.’
Speaking to James Corden in 2019, the musician also revealed he had turned down a $500,000 offer to appear at Trump’s 2016 inauguration because ‘all money’s not good money.’
An analysis of Biden’s schedule, issued daily by the White House, shows he spent all or part of 300 days at one of his two homes in Delaware, or vacationing.
The President owns a six-bedroom, 4,786 sq ft beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, which he bought for $2.74million in 2017.
His other Delaware home is a 6,850 sq ft mansion in Wilmington worth over $2million.
In addition to trips to both homes, Biden’s other recent holidays included a week-long trip to Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
He was flown to Lake Tahoe on Air Force One and then rented a home from Tom Steyer, the billionaire climate activist who unsuccessfully ran for president in 2020.
White House deputy spokesperson Andrew Bates pushed back against the scathing criticism.
‘As has been the case for the better part of a century, presidents can execute the full range of their duties from anywhere in the world – whether it’s a war zone in Israel or 100 miles from the White House in Delaware,’ he said in a statement.
He added that Biden ‘works long hours every day’ and that the President spoke with several world leaders about his ‘support for Israel’s right to defend itself and push for aid to innocent Palestinians’ including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
‘And he delivered more security assistance to Israel, a second shipment of aid to Palestinian civilians, and made progress toward passage of his supplemental to protect our national security, increase border funding, and grow our economy,’ Bates added.
‘Meanwhile, House Republicans were on recess bickering with each other.’
A smoke cloud rises from Gaza City as conflict brews between Israel and Hamas. Around 1,400 deaths have been reported on the Israeli side, while the Palestinian death toll climbs past 5,000
Members of the Egyptian Red Crescent Society handle humanitarian aid bound for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli war cabinet on October 18, 2023 amid the ongoing conflict
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio (center) failed to secure the 217 votes needed to become Speaker of the House and dropped out of the race
President Donald Trump faced similar criticism regarding his vacations. Pictured: Trump arrives at Palm Beach International Airport for a golf trip
Biden has drawn criticism at home for his endorsement of Israel – a staunch ally of the United States since 1987 – and for not doing enough to stop the number of casualties from climbing.
Hamas has begun to release a few of an estimated 200 hostages as the death toll rises, beginning with two American women on Friday.
This was followed by the release of two Israeli women on Monday, which the Israeli prime minister’s office acknowledged before confirming that the women were handed over to the Israeli military and sent to a medical facility.
Conflicts also continue to brew across the aisle, with Friday marking the third failed vote for Speaker of the House.
Republican senator Jim Jordan was unable to secure the 217 crucial votes and dropped out of the race after party members voted to revoke his nomination.
Nine new candidates have emerged in the race for the position. They are scheduled to make their case to become the next speaker on Tuesday in a closed-door meeting.
The conference is scheduled to vote Wednesday morning on which candidate to nominate next.
While Biden has drawn the ire of conservatives over his amount of time spent on vacation, the last president drew similar criticism.
In Trump’s first 2467 days in office, the former reality star spent 378 days at Trump properties and 281 at golf properties.
In 2020, he made his 500th visit to one of his properties when he went to the Trump hotel in Washington to meet with political donors.
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25739950/247386_Elon_Musk_Open_AI_CVirginia.jpg "Inside Elon Musk’s messy breakup with OpenAI")
