Former President Donald Trump blamed his successor, President Joe Biden, for some awkward moments with his teleprompter as he spoke at a rally in Ohio on Saturday afternoon.
Trump, speaking on a wind-whipped airfield outside of Dayton Saturday, was drumming up support for his presidential rematch with Biden and his preferred Senate candidate Bernie Moreno.
The presumptive Republican nominee, 77, repeatedly noted his difficulty reading from his teleprompters, which could be seen visibly whipping in 35-mile-per-hour wind gusts.
As the prompters moved around and Trump became more and more visibly frustrated – at one point saying ‘don’t pay these suckers!’ at those who’d set it up – at the inability to make out his speech, he joked: ‘I think Joe Biden put them in!’
Though he bragged about how nice it was ‘to have a president who doesn’t need a teleprompter’ he made some clear speaking errors during the rally without being able to use it.
Former President Donald Trump blamed his successor, President Joe Biden, for some awkward moments with his teleprompter as he spoke at a rally in Ohio on Saturday afternoon
Most notably, he claimed that President Biden had once beaten former President Barack Obama in an election after saying Trump would beat Biden by ‘the largest margins ever.’
‘You know what’s interesting? Joe Biden beat Barack Hussein Obama, anybody ever heard of him? Every swing state, Biden beat Obama but in every other state, he got killed.’
He also was recorded struggling with saying the name of the band The Rolling Stones, whom Trump’s team uses the music of during rallies, calling them ‘The Rolling Storns.’
Trump, during his retelling of his infamous ‘The Snake’ story, also mispronounced the word ‘bite.’
Progressive media also claimed Trump erred in pronouncing candidate Moreno’s name, pronouncing it more like ‘Marino.’
A one-time Trump critic, Moreno, a wealthy Cleveland businessman, supported Marco Rubio for president in the 2016 Republican primary, and once tweeted that listening to Trump was ‘like watching a car accident that makes you sick, but you can stop looking.’
In 2021, NBC News reported on an email exchange around the time of Trump´s first presidential run in which Moreno referred to Trump as a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘maniac.’
Trump, speaking on a wind-whipped airfield outside of Dayton Saturday, was drumming up support for his presidential rematch with Biden and his preferred Senate candidate Bernie Moreno
Guests listen as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Dayton International Airport
The presumptive Republican nominee, 77, repeatedly noted his difficulty reading from his teleprompters, which could be seen visibly whipping in 35-mile-per-hour wind gusts
On Saturday, however, Moreno praised Trump as a ‘great American’ and railed against those in his party who have been critical of the former president, who this week became his party’s presumptive nominee for a third straight election.
‘I am so sick and tired of Republicans that say, `I support President Trump´s policies but I don´t like the man,´’ he said as he joined Trump on stage.
Trump also dismissed recent allegations against Moreno, comparing them to attacks he has faced through the years, including his criminal indictments.
The former president has been charged in four separate cases that span his handling of classified documents to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
‘He´s getting some very tough Democrat fake treatment right now,’ Trump said. ‘And we´re not going to stand for it.’
Trump, in his remarks, also accused Biden of posing a threat to Social Security as he continued to clean up comments from an interview earlier this week in which he appeared to voice openness to cuts.
‘Your Social Security is going to be gone,’ he warned of a Biden second term, even though Biden has pledged to protect and strengthen Social Security as it faces a projected budget shortfall.
‘You will not be able to have Social Security with this guy in office because he´s destroying the economics of our country. And that includes Medicare, by the way, and American seniors are gong to be in big trouble.’
The presumptive Republican nominee, 77, repeatedly noted his difficulty reading from his teleprompters, which could be seen visibly whipping in 35-mile-per-hour wind gusts
Supporters of former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wait to hear him speak at a Buckeye Values PAC Rally
Guests take pictures as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s plane lands
‘I made a promise that I will always keep Social Security, Medicare. We always will keep it. We never will cut it,’ he said.
Trump is scrambling to catch up to President Joe Biden’s massive fundraising advantage with just eight months until the election.
The Republican National Committee has just $40 million in the bank compared to the $130 million Democratic operations had last month.
The huge gap in funding is steadily growing as Democrats open their wallets to support Biden’s campaign to hold the White House.
Democrats raised more than $10 million in the 24 hours after the State of the Union last Thursday, far higher than Trump’s biggest day where he raised $4.2 million after his mugshot in the Georgia election fraud case was released.