‘They’re the weird ones’: Trump’s angry retort is just weird

Whether or not Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is tapped by Vice President Kamala Harris to be her running mate, he’s made a huge contribution to her campaign as the guy who first called it like it is when it came to Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance. 

“These guys are just weird,” Walz said on MSNBC on July 23. With one simple word, he helped redefine the campaign. 

And boy, does Trump hate it. He’s so defensive over the tag that he had a meltdown and attacked Democrats while appearing on a right-wing podcast Thursday.

“Well, they’re the weird ones,” he said. “That’s a weird deal going on there. They’re the weird ones. Nobody’s ever called me weird. I’m a lot of things, but weird I’m not. And I’m upfront. And he’s not either, I will tell you. JD is not at all. They are.”

In a desperate bid to slow the presumptive Democratic nominee’s momentum, Trump and the GOP have added the “I’m rubber and you’re glue” strategy to harping on Harris’ laugh and her “love of Venn diagrams and her call to ban plastic straws.” But it’s not working.