After mocking Vice President Kamala Harris over her use of the teleprompter, Donald Trump’s rally in Reno, Nevada, came to a halt as he was forced to repair his onstage after a campaign sign fell on it.
“Thank God I don’t use teleprompters too much,” Trump told rally attendees after the sign fell on the teleprompter, causing the script projection to stop. “I look at the teleprompter, it’s completely gone. I say, “What happened?” The sign fell on it.
The irony of the incident becomes clear when considering how many times the former president accused Harris of relying on a teleprompter and mocking her for it.
Trump told supporters Friday he would be “on their level” and admitted to using a teleprompter, while claiming Harris used one more.
“Isn’t it nice to have a guy who doesn’t need a teleprompter, a president, a potential president who doesn’t need a teleprompter?” » Trump asked his supporters moments after fixing his teleprompter.
He once again falsely accused Harris of using one during his town hall with Univision on Thursday.
The Harris campaign and Univision confirmed to CNN that the vice president did not use a teleprompter during her town hall. A teleprompter that was seen in a photo from the event was in Spanish and intended for the moderator, not Harris.
Trump and his allies have previously accused Harris of using a teleprompter in interviews when she did not. In cases where the vice president used a teleprompter, they made fun of her and insinuated that she needed it because she wasn’t smart.
Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, bragged about not needing a teleprompter at an August rally, saying, “I actually have thoughts in my head.” Unlike Kamala Harris. At that same rally, he spoke poorly about a terrorist event in Afghanistan.
Likewise, Trump told his supporters Friday night that “there’s something wrong with [Harris]” for the use of teleprompters.
He added: “I don’t use them much. The concept I use but I don’t like it.
He then launched into a hard-to-follow rant about how to give speeches.
“When you can’t get up and give a speech, like, normally, like – when all the work that we do, you’d think you could do it for 40 minutes – well, she also does very short speeches. Have you ever noticed they last like 10 minutes,” he told the crowd in Reno.
