Biden rips Trump and MAGA Republicans for voting against funds for infrastructure: 'I don't think ensuring kids can drink clean water to avoid brain damage is a socialist agenda'

President Joe Biden traveled to the other Wilmington Thursday - the one in North Carolina - and ribbed Republicans for not supporting his stimulus and infrastructure bills, which he said brought clean drinking water to the state. 

'In fact your Sen. Ted Budd called the infrastructure law part of "a socialist agenda,"' Biden pointed out. 'I don't know about you, but I don't think ensuring kids can drink clean water to avoid brain damage is a socialist agenda.'

'I think it's just plain decency,' Biden added. 

North Carolina could be a key swing state in the November election, with former President Donald Trump barely eking out a win there in 2020. 

Now a controversial Republican gubernatorial candidate could draw Democratic voters out. 

President Joe Biden traveled to the other Wilmington Thursday - the one in North Carolina - and ribbed Republicans for not supporting his stimulus and infrastructure bills, which he said brought clean drinking water to the state

Biden slapped around North Carolina Sen. Ted Budd and former President Donald Trump during a day trip to North Carolina on Thursday. He mocked Trump for never being able to get an infrastructure bill passed 

Biden slapped around Trump - referring to him as his 'predecessor' - in ways he has before. 

The president gleefully spoke of the many times Trump tried to hold an 'infrastructure week' - only for some kind of scandal to occur. 

'He didn't build a damn thing,' Biden said. 

'At the same time, he and his MAGA allies in Congress were happy to give a $2 trillion tax cut that benefitted the super wealthy and the biggest corporations while exploding the federal debt,' the president added. 

Biden's late-in-the-day remarks came after he diverted his original plan to just come to Wilmington and stop in Charlotte instead - to meet with family members of the four police officers who were gunned down earlier this week.

They were: Sam Poloche and William Elliott of the North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Officer Joshua Eyer; and Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Weeks. 

'The entire nation is grieving with these families,' Biden told the crowd in Wilmington. 

President Joe Biden salutes Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Chief Johnny Jennings, as he arrives on Air Force One at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Biden met with the families of law enforcement officers shot to death on the job

Actor Ralph Fiennes (second from right) watches Marine One depart Thursday at the White House. The actor, known for his portrayal of Voldemort in the Harry Potter series, is in Washington performing Macbeth at the D.C.-based Shakespeare Theatre Company

His meetings with the family members were private.

They took place at the North Carolina Air National Guard base, instead of downtown Charlotte, in order for there to be a smaller police footprint due to the entire community being impacted.

Biden's trip to North Carolina came after he finally addressed the pro-Palestinian unrest on college campuses. 

The president spoke for less than four minutes Thursday - saying he supported non-violent demonstrations, but suggested college demonstrators were causing 'chaos.' 

'Destroying property is not a peaceful protest. It's against the law,' he said from the Roosevelt Room Thursday. 'Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows and shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduation. None of this is peaceful protest.'

'There's the right to protest,' he continued. 'But not the right to cause chaos.'

As he departed he told reporters he did not wish to see the National Guard deployed on college campuses. 

He also said the campus protests didn't sway his thinking on Middle East policies. 

And as he left the White House Thursday, actor Ralph Fiennes was spotted in the crowd watching Marine One take off. 

Fiennes is starring in Macbeth at the D.C.-based Shakespeare Theatre Company.