Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally on the Grappone Conference Middle on January 19, 2024 in Harmony, New Hampshire. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)
Donald Trump shot again in opposition to a Democratic messaging technique that seemingly obtained below his pores and skin, in an interview with “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Present,” a conservative radio present.
Responding to Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic marketing campaign surrogates labeling the Trump marketing campaign “bizarre,” garnering instantaneous media consideration and large social media virality, the previous president tried to flip the script.
“They’re the bizarre ones. No one’s ever known as me bizarre. I’m a whole lot of issues, however bizarre I’m not. And I’m upfront. And he’s not both, I’ll inform you. JD is in no way. They’re,” Trump stated.
Trump was calling into the present to react to a so-called “transgender Olympic boxing outrage” that’s seemingly brewing on far-right conspiracy-laden social media – a considerably bizarre response to have on a serious day for American athletes, together with gymnastics famous person Simone Biles’ historic gold medal win.
If Trump was attempting to beat the “bizarre” allegations, he picked a tricky matter. Extremist rhetoric in opposition to trans people is offputting to many citizens, analysts say, particularly in opposition to kids. Regardless of that, Trump advised Travis that “males is not going to be taking part in in girls’s sports activities” in opposition to his 17-year-old granddaughter in golf video games.
The time period “bizarre” picked up steam after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz claimed Democrats had been “not afraid of bizarre folks,” pointing to Trump and Vance’s stance on girls’s rights, single folks, and obsession with children’ books.
The label, which made its manner onto the Harris marketing campaign’s largest stage but in an Atlanta rally this week, and gained hundreds of thousands of views on the “Kamala HQ” TikTok account, has been met in related methods by different Trump marketing campaign surrogates, together with Marco Rubio, who merely responded that Democrats had been weirder in a Tuesday interview.
In the meantime, traditionally unpopular working mate JD Vance, himself related to some bizarre conspiracies, gave an instantly memed response when requested concerning the label coined by Walz, laughing that it “doesn’t damage my emotions.”