One of the latest attacks on Donald Trump and his vice presidential candidate, Senator JD Vance (Republican of Ohio), seems to have gotten under the former president’s skin, as he insisted on Thursday that he is not weird.
“She actually called me ‘weird,'” he said of Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday. “And she called JD and me ‘weird.’ He’s not weird, he was a great student at Yale.”
Trump then attacked Harris’s running mate, Democratic Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who has loudly called Republicans weird.
“We have this guy who runs a failed, really failed state and has had a terrible career,” Trump said. “I mean, he says, ‘They’re weird.’ No, he’s a weird guy and she’s weird in her politics.”
Democratic politicians are now calling Trump, Vance and their supporters “weird,” and Trump doesn’t seem to like it very much.
“No, we’re not weird. We’re very solid people,” he said at a rally last week. “I think we’re the opposite of weird. They’re weird.”
He also addressed this topic during a radio interview earlier this month.
“They’re the weird guys,” Trump said. “I’m a lot of things, but I’m not weird.”
Walz said he called Trump and other Republican Party figures “weird” because it took away some of their power to spread fear.
“The fascists live on fear,” he said last month. “But we are not afraid of strange people. We are a little unsettled, but we are not afraid.”
Trump’s critics found his recent attempt to argue that he is not weird unconvincing:
