President Donald Trump on Tuesday used his weird anatomical examination bit to highlight another one of Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-Ohio) body parts: his fingers.
Trump, who brought up Husted unprovoked at a rally in Texas, a stop meant to urge voters into backing Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in a key U.S. Senate race, launched into the alleged story behind his initial study sesh of the Ohio Republican’s buttocks.
“I made the mistake of saying that I started off by studying his ass; I just wanted to say —,” began Trump of the physique inspection.
“And then I looked at his feet, and they were massive. Then I looked at his hands. See, these hands? These are nice hands, they’re fine. He had fingers like sausages,” he continued.
“I looked at his hands, I said, ‘Look at it, guys,’” the president added. “And then I patted him on the shoulder, I said, ‘Great job, Jonny.’”
Trump, who made similar comments about Husted’s fingers at a rally in Michigan on Monday, then repeated his baseless claim that the senator’s polling numbers went up as a result of his ass speak (in reality, Husted’s Democratic opponent Sherrod Brown is ahead in a majority of recent polls).
“Maybe I should do that with Ken Paxton. But I’m not sure your body is going to qualify,” said Trump while pointing to the Texas AG. “I’m going to do it with Ken.”
MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell, who mocked Trump’s earlier ass comments in a monologue last week, argued that the president’s mind “appeared to crumble” as he used the rally to hype up the body of a senator “who his Texas audience has never heard of.”
“Now Donald Trump is taking it to the point of identifying those body parts as things he likes to eat,” said the host.
“Donald Trump’s cognitive ability only moves in one direction, and it’s moving fast because what Donald Trump said about that senator’s ass tonight in Texas is now noticeably crazier than what he was saying about that senator’s ass a week ago, or that senator’s ass two weeks ago.”
“Morning Joe” also aired Trump’s rally remarks at the top of Wednesday’s show, with host Mika Brzezinski zooming in on the Paxton shoutout, “President Trump finally finds a man’s body that he doesn’t like.”