Former President Donald Trump expressed frustration over a fly that approached his lectern at a bizarre time during a rally speech.
Trump was on stage in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, showing off a hat, when he appeared distracted by the creature.
“Oh, there’s a fly,” the former president said. “I wonder where the fly came from?”
A member of the audience shouted “Kamala”.
Trump continued: “See, two years ago I wouldn’t have had a fly here. You change quickly. We can’t take it anymore. It was not clear who or what the president was referring to before changing the subject.
The internet was quick to react to Trump’s unexpected outburst, with MSNBC host and legal analyst Katie Phang declaring that “this is not normal.”
Trump: Oh, there’s a fly. Oh, I wonder where the fly came from. You see, two years ago I wouldn’t have had a fly here. You change quickly. We can’t take it anymore pic.twitter.com/ZiLoNJfuTQ
– Acyn (@Acyn) September 28, 2024
Meanwhile, American Bridge 21st Century, which describes itself as a responsible Republican group, said: “Trump is exhausted and struggling to stay on track. He starts a story about a hat, but gets distracted by a fly and never finishes. He begins a whole new story and struggles with the word “unique.”
Many others made the comparison between Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, after a fly landed on the latter’s head and stayed there for nearly two minutes during his 2020 debate with Kamala Harris.
In separate remarks made during his speech, Trump once again escalated his rhetoric against Harris, calling her “mentally disabled” and “mentally defective.” Harris visited the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this week and much of Trump’s speech was aimed at migrants who entered the United States illegally.
Posters of migrants accused of murder and other violent crimes surrounded Trump on stage. Some of them read: “End migrant crime” and “Deport illegal immigrants now.” He called those who had been charged “monsters,” “cold killers” and “vile animals.”
He continued to blame Harris and President Joe Biden for the influx of migrants entering the country, and claimed that some of them wanted to “rape, pillage, steal, pillage and kill the people of the United States of America.” America.” In fact, a 2024 study by researchers at Northwestern University found that immigrants have never been incarcerated at a higher rate than people born in the United States over a 150-year period.
At her own press conference from the border, Harris pledged to fix the country’s “broken immigration system” and accused the former president of “fanning the flames of fear and division.”
