{"id":885554,"date":"2026-10-17T13:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885554\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:40:09","slug":"insults-odd-obsessions-and-rambling-thoughts-a-week-in-trump-rallies-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/885554\/","title":{"rendered":"Insults, odd obsessions and rambling thoughts: a week in Trump rallies | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montana, Tennessee<\/a>, Alaska. In the run-up to an election, a Republican president typically wouldn\u2019t be campaigning in these traditionally red states.<\/p>\n

These aren\u2019t normal times, however, and Donald Trump<\/a>, an unpopular president leading an unpopular party, has held rallies in those states in the last week, seeking to drum up support. But a series of eccentric performances from the president means his behavior has been the focus, rather than any of the candidates he is backing.<\/p>\n

Trump, 80, has used his appearances to muse about animals\u2019 opposition to the second amendment, to call one Republican candidate \u201cnerdy\u201d, and to demonstrate a hitherto unexpressed fascination with \u201casses\u201d \u2013 men\u2019s and babies\u2019, in particular.<\/p>\n

Along the way Trump has repeated his lie that 2020 was a rigged election, claimed, falsely<\/a>, that he has secured $21tn in foreign investment in the US, and issued dark warnings about Democrats. Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n

Trump in Syracuse, New York, last week. Photograph: Mandel Ngan\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Trump was supposed to be in Syracuse to support Bruce Blakeman, the Republican candidate for New York governor, whom he introduced to the crowd in a confusing way. Trump told the crowd of Blakeman: \u201cI\u2019ve just known him just for a second. I\u2019ve known him for a long time, years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aside from his entirely contradictory explanation of his relationship with Blakeman, Trump went on to claim that, in New York: \u201cYou can no longer say: \u2018Mother \u2013 hi, mom\u2019. It\u2019s: \u2018Hi gestating \u2013 hi, gestating. I love you so much, gestating.\u2019\u201d People are still allowed to say mother in New York.<\/p>\n

Trump continued by talking about one of the things closest to his heart, spending 15 minutes complaining about how he did not win the Nobel peace prize, despite having \u201csettled eight wars\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cPakistan and India. I called them up, I said: \u2018If you guys don\u2019t stop killing each other I\u2019m going to charge you 250% in tariffs and we\u2019re not going to trade with you. They said no, no, no, you cannot do that. I said, yes, I can,\u201d Trump said. India has repeatedly<\/a> denied<\/a> that a ceasefire was reached because of any intervention from Trump.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump in Clarksville, Tennessee. Photograph: Seth Herald\/Reuters<\/p>\n

A day later, Trump appeared in Clarksville. There, he adopted a strange method of talking to the audience, saying there was \u201csuch love\u201d, before adding: \u201cI mean, it\u2019s amazing. When you stand up here, it\u2019s just like\u2026 the love. I could say the stupidest things and you clap: \u201cOh, I love you so \u2026 .\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump continued: \u201cIt\u2019s true. But we don\u2019t say the stupidest things. We say things of common sense. We say things that make sense, and we probably are mostly conservative, but it\u2019s not really conservative. It\u2019s things of common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump with supporters in Youngstown. Photograph: Gene J Puskar\/AP<\/p>\n

Speaking in Ohio, Trump said he had recently learned that Jon Husted, the Republican senator running for re-election in the state, played football at university.<\/p>\n

Trump continued: \u201cI don\u2019t do this with men very often. I started examining [Husted\u2019s] body, because I didn\u2019t know he was a great athlete. And I looked and I watched up and down. I looked at his ass and I looked at the whole \u2013 and then I looked at his hands. Look at his hands. He\u2019s got these, like, claws.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, Trump praised Husted, 59, for having a good jawline, before turning his attention to insulting immigrants from Somalia. Trump claimed that those people \u201ccome from a part of the world that only knows how to kill each other\u201d and said that in Somalia people were \u201clow IQ\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t have pants to wear\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump in Wasilla. Photograph: Evan Vucci\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Trump was in Alaska<\/a> to rally support for Dan Sullivan, the Republican senator. It was revealing that he was there at all: this should be deep red territory. Yet the Democratic candidate, Mary Peltola, is running neck and neck against Sullivan, something which prompted Trump to call Peltola, a native American former tribal judge, \u201ca whack job\u201d.<\/p>\n

During a meandering speech, Trump also granted pardons, on stage, to two Alaska auto shop owners, who previously pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you give somebody a pardon, they say that means \u2013 and I don\u2019t know how this works and why it\u2019s an expression, but it\u2019s well used, that means you\u2019re as clean as a newborn baby\u2019s ass,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

He added of that phrase: \u201cI never understood that. Why is that so clean? But they \u2013 they \u2013 they felt that was the definition of cleanliness.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Trump in Bullhead City, Arizona. Photograph: Ian Maule\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

After praising Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, as \u201cyoung\u201d and \u201chandsome\u201d (Sheikh Tamim is 46), Trump turned his attention the Arizona Republicans<\/a> he was in Bullhead City to support, including Alex Kolodin, a member of the Arizona house of representatives who is seeking higher office.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody also needs to get out and vote for Alex Kolodin, a warrior for election integrity, as your next secretary of state,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlex, good luck. You look good. Central casting, actually. You want a secretary of state to look exactly like that, a little bit nerdy, and that\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was reminiscent of Trump\u2019s repeated complaints about Ken Paxton, his handpicked nominee for US Senate in Texas. Trump has repeatedly said<\/a> he does not like how Paxton talks, dresses, or looks.<\/p>\n

During his remarks, Trump also managed to add to questions about his health, insult yet another person he knows, and let the crowd know their life was less important than his.<\/p>\n

\u201cI travel with more doctors than any human being. If people get sick in the audience, they don\u2019t \u2013 they leave them alone,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what they call them? Collateral damage. If that person right over there, a friend of mine \u2013 he looks like shit, actually, he looks \u2013 he looks like he\u2019s ready to have a heart attack. If he actually had a heart attack, you know what my doctors would do that follow the president, all presidents?<\/p>\n

\u201cThey would leave him alone. I\u2019d say please help him. No, sir, we can\u2019t leave your side. I said but he\u2019s dying of a heart attack. Sir, he\u2019s collateral damage. Can you believe it? They got, like, six ambulances and they won\u2019t use one for anybody else. Anyway \u2013 but let\u2019s hope we never have that problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump walks off stage in Montana. Photograph: Kent Nishimura\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Trump made a fairly desperate plea to voters, invoking the long-time Republican fear-mongering that Democrats<\/a> will ban guns \u2013 something which is very much not a position of the Democratic party.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know who would love that to happen? Some of the wild animals you have up here that like \u2013 that like eating you,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe talked about that with Tim [Sheehy, US senator for Montana] and Steve [Daines, the other US senator for Montana] on the plane. That was my first question, I say: \u2018When you walk out in the woods here, do you always have a gun, Tim?\u2019 He said: \u2018Actually \u2013 actually, yes.\u2019 I said: \u2018What about you, Steve?\u2019 He said: \u2018Yes, we\u2019re intelligent people.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, the animals would be very, very happy to see you without guns. They would gain a lot of weight. And leave the law-abiding Americans defenseless while they set loose the savage criminals into your communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even for a president known for eccentricities, Trump\u2019s fascination with backsides, the appearance of his friends, and animals, has raised eyebrows. And with two weeks to go until the midterm elections, there will be more appearances to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montana, Tennessee, Alaska. In the run-up to an election, a Republican president typically wouldn\u2019t be campaigning in these…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-885554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}