Former President Donald Trump reached for his trusty ‘I’m rubber, you’re glue’ defense after repeatedly being branded weird by the Harris campaign – calling the vice president a ‘weird person.’
Trump made the comments in an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News, where he repeatedly attacked Kamala Harris.
‘Listen, this whole thing is a con job. “Just plain weird.” Do you know who is plain weird? She’s plain weird,’ Trump told the host on her Ingraham Angle show.
‘She’s a weird person. Look at her past. Look at what she does.’
Then he switched to innuendo, at a time when his team is focused on some of the left-wing policy positions from her 2020 campaign that Harris has been jettisoning.
‘And look at what she used to say about herself, and I won’t get into it, what she used to say and who she was compared to, what she said starting at about 2016. She became a totally different person. Only for political reasons,’ Trump said.
Democrats have been leaning into the ‘weird’ attack, which was first rolled out by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a leading contender as a potential Harris running mate.
His fury at the ‘weird’ attack came after Trump inveighed about the Russia probe from his White House tenure.
‘Look what they do is they take soundbites,’ Trump said. ‘Russia, Russia, Russia. He’s a paid associate of Putin! These people are crazy,’ Trump said.
Then after blasting the Russia probe, Trump started tearing into Joe Biden’s golf game.
‘And everything about them, look at Biden. He said he’ll challenge me to golf. I’m a very good golfer. He’s a terrible golfer. This guy can’t hit a ball 30 yards,’ Trump said.
Then he bragged about hitting a ‘nice 7-iron right next to the pin’ at his golf course.
Trump also reverted to attacks on Biden during a radio interview Tuesday, where he claimed Harris ‘doesn’t like Jewish people’ despite being married to Doug Emhoff, who is Jewish.
The Democratic ‘weird’ attacks on Trump are themselves a pivot away from some of the main campaing themes that President Biden was stressing when he was set to to be the Party nominee, calling Trump a threat to democracy itself and repeatedly hitting him for stoking his supporters before January 6.
Democrats have been dropping the attack into interviews and online slams on Trump and running mate J.D. Vance, using it to contest his slams on ‘childless’ leaders he says don’t have enough of a stake in the country.
Walz called Trump and Vance ‘just weird’ in an interview last week.
Then Harris used the attack at a fundraiser, saying Trump’s ‘wild lies about my record and some of what he and his running mate are saying, it is just plain weird.’
Harris also asked Trump a questions about the pronouns Harris uses to label herself – which she posts on her official X account.
‘Kamala Harris, in her Twitter bio, which I’ve never noticed until this morning, states her pronouns as she/her,’ Ingraham said, asking her subject: ‘What are your pronouns?’
‘I have no—I don’t want pronouns,’ Trump responded. ‘I don’t want pronouns, I saw that.’
‘So you’re fluid?’ asked, using a gender term.
‘Nobody even knows what that means,’ said Trump.