By The Opinion
19 Oct 2024, 10:40 PM EDT
The former president donald trump called his rival Kamala Harris “f***ing vice president” on Saturday night, during a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, emphasizing her broader argument that she is too liberal but in a more aggressive way and with renewed vulgarity.
“Bernie is radical left, and this, Kamala, is even more left,” Trump said to the crowd at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport. “And then, they have to tell Kamala Harris that they’ve had enough, that they can’t take it anymore. We can’t stand you. “You are a shitty vice president.”
Trump added the catchphrase from his old TV show “The Apprentice” to cheers: “Kamala, you’re fired,” he said. “Get out of here.”
Trump’s comment was met with cheers and was soon echoed by other vulgar cries from the crowd.
Kamala Harriswho was campaigning in Atlanta on Saturday, harshly criticized Trump for rambling in his public statements. “He has a tendency to go off script and ramble and usually can’t finish a single idea,” she said. “And he’s called it a plot, but I think we call it nonsense here.”
Trump’s anecdote about Arnold Palmer
Donald Trump had begun his rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, not by talking about central campaign issues, but with a 10+ minute story about golf legend Arnold Palmer, originally from Latrobe.
The former president called the late golfer “a friend,” tracing Palmer’s biography from his childhood in poverty to playing golf with him when he was in his 70s. Trump also said he traveled with Palmer by helicopter to Trump’s golf club in Doral, Florida, to name a villa after him.
At one point, Trump suggested Palmer had unusually large genitals. After calling Palmer “a real man,” Trump said, “When he showered with the other professionals, they would walk out of there and say, ‘Oh, my God. That’s incredible.’”
The Harris campaign was quick to seize on the anecdote.
A Harris campaign spokesperson, Sarafina Chitika, suggested that someone should do a “wellness check” on the former president, while another, Matt Corridoni, posted on X that Trump “was having a totally normal one.”
In a statement, heHarris campaign sarcastically rebukes Trump for focusing on “the most important issue for voters in this election: the anatomy of a deceased golfer.”
CNN reported that Jason Miller, senior advisor to Donald Trumpsaid that it is expected that the former president’s speech Saturday in Pennsylvania be the beginning of your final argument in the final stretch of the race electoraland that a more formal closing argument will be presented at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally next weekend.
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