Trump insists he and Vance should not bizarre however ‘solid rocks’ as he rambles about hating mosquitoes | EUROtoday

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Donald Trump repeatedly insisted that he and operating mate JD Vance had been “not weird”, moments earlier than launching right into a tangent about hating mosquitoes throughout a city corridor, the place he additionally attacked rival Kamala Harris and promised “the largest deportation in history” if he was to return to the White House.

The former president participated in a one-hour, pre-taped occasion with Fox News’ Sean Hannity in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Wednesday.

With few interjections from Hannity, Trump repeated frequent refrains about Harris’ financial agenda and her document on the border. He additionally labored to distance himself and “JD” from the “weird” label first given to them Democratic vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz.

Hannity began asking a query about Walz, which Trump rapidly derailed in favor of discussing Walz’s prolonged household’s endorsement of him.

“I was so honored today. His brother endorsed me — and his whole family!” Trump stated. “I saw the picture. Honestly, it was a very nice looking family.”

Earlier on Wednesday, eight of Walz’s distant kinfolk shared a photograph of them carrying grammatically incorrect “Walz’s for Trump” T-shirts whereas standing in entrance of a “Trump 2024” flag.

Speaking about Walz, Trump stated: “There is something weird with that guy. He’s a weird guy. JD is not weird. He’s a solid rock. I happen to be a very solid rock.”

The crowd erupted into cheers as he stated: “We’re not weird. We are other things, perhaps, but we’re not weird.”

Minutes later, Trump was sidetracked by a mosquito which appeared to hassle him on stage.

“I hate mosquitos. I’m surprised, I didn’t think we had… We don’t like those mosquitoes running around,” he stated. “We want nothing to do with them — and we want nothing to do with bad politicians that hate our country, too.”

Most of the city corridor, nevertheless, was targeted on bashing Harris’ border insurance policies. Trump made numerous acquainted false claims about migrants, alleging that they’re murderers, little one traffickers, and drug sellers coming into the US from prisons, psychological establishments, and “very bad places.” Trump then promised the “largest deportation in the history of the country” if he had been elected in November.

The former president additionally slammed Harris’s financial plan. While Trump’s proposal has pushed tax cuts for high-income Americans, Harris unveiled a part of her plan on Wednesday that emphasizes advantages for the center class and small companies.

Discussing her proposal, Trump warned: “This country will end up in a depression if she becomes president, like 1929. She has no idea what the hell she’s doing.”

Trump then took a jab at Harris’s father. He known as Donald Harris, professor emeritus at Stanford, a “Marxist teacher of economics.” Trump has been referring to the vice chairman as a “Marxist” and a “communist” in current weeks.

Trump’s city corridor on Hannity stemmed from a debate debacle with Harris. The former president had proposed that he and Harris debate on Fox News on September 4, prompting Harris to assert he was “running scared.” After a lot backwards and forwards, each presidential candidates agreed to debate on September 10 on ABC News.

Six days forward of the hotly anticipated debate, Trump took the chance to criticize that community, calling it “the most dishonest network, the meanest, the nastiest” and branding one in every of its anchors, George Stephanopoulos, as “a nasty guy.”

The debate will probably be moderated by David Muir and Linsey Davis, not Stephanopoulos.