Trump’s Weird, Low-Energy Speech Ends With an Even Stranger Twist
It’s been a very bad, no-good week for Donald Trump, and between his poor performance during Tuesday night’s debate and his racist conspiracy theory about Haitian migrants coming back to bite him, the Republican presidential nominee appears to have lost some of his composure.
During a rambling and largely nonsensical presser in Los Angeles on Friday, Trump constantly tripped over himself, outright rejecting important questions from reporters while making absurd claims, such as the fact that the country was “perfect” in January 2021.
"The country was perfect" -- Trump on January 2021, a time when we were all quarantining at home amid mass death with unemployment above 6 percent pic.twitter.com/VEeTMyHqrg
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 13, 2024
In one portion of his speech, Trump badly botched the name of his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, by referring to her as “Comrade Howard” while shaking his head. He also referred to Harris as a “radical left Marxist Communist fascist,” an ideological combination that is technically impossible, and attacked her for her “woman-made destruction.”
Lol Bad glitch from Trump pic.twitter.com/r5MgmZ4cT8
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 13, 2024
But not everything Trump said was outlandish or wrong. In another section of his speech, Trump dropped an undeniable detail: Not all states have a Pacific Ocean.
Trump, "Many states don't have Pacific Oceans." pic.twitter.com/zegIzf0U1q
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) September 13, 2024
Shortly after the speech ended, Trump had one final thought to share, which he posted in brief on Truth Social: “#.” At the time of publication, the post had more than 2,700 likes.