Trump Shows Zero Remorse For Insulting Tim Walz With ‘R-Word’ | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump isn’t backing down after utilizing an ableist slur to explain Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) over the Thanksgiving vacation.

Trump deemed the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee “seriously retarded” in a rambling publish on his Truth Social platform Thursday, whereas additionally taking goal at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and former President Joe Biden.

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One late Sunday, the president mentioned he “absolutely” stood by his feedback. Regarding Walz, he famous, “I think there’s something wrong with him.”

“Anybody that would do what he did, anybody that would allow those people into his state and pay billions of dollars out to Somalia,” he mentioned, as seen in video shared by Mediaite and different shops. “We give billions of dollars to Somalia. It’s not even a country because it doesn’t function like a country. It’s got a name but it doesn’t function like a country.”

He then added, “Yeah, there’s something wrong with Walz.”

Trump’s assaults on migrants, equivalent to these from Somalia referenced in his Truth Social publish, observe final week’s close-range taking pictures of two younger National Guard members in Washington, D.C. The suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, reportedly entered the U.S. in 2021 as a part of the Biden-era Operation Allies Welcome after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, however was granted asylum beneath Trump.

Despite repeated backlash, Trump has made it a convention to mark holidays with incendiary remarks, normally focused at his opponents.

Last 12 months, he devoted his Thanksgiving message to “Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country” earlier than praising his “landslide victory” over former Vice President Kamala Harris within the 2024 presidential election.

His Father’s Day message that 12 months featured related language about “radical left degenerates.”

Walz, nonetheless, hasn’t appeared too vexed by Trump’s insult. Shortly after the president posted his Truth Social rant, the Minnesota governor fired again with a pointed message of his personal.

“Release the MRI results,” Walz wrote on X, alluding to Trump’s head-scratching rationalization of his October MRI examination, the most recent in a collection of incidents which have prompted hypothesis over the president’s well being.

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Walz prompt Trump’s “mental capacity” ought to be critical trigger for concern.

“Here we got a guy on Thanksgiving where we spent time with our families, we ate, we played Yahtzee, we cheered for football or whatever,” he mentioned. “This guy is apparently in a room ranting about everything else. This is not normal behavior. It’s not healthy.”