As Democrats continue Amid their rhetorical strategy of mocking Donald Trump, his running mate J.D. Vance, and other “weird” and “scary” conservative policymakers who are trying to push the country back into the Dark Ages, the former president has become increasingly angry at the messages that have overwhelmed the media and internet memes.
During an interview Thursday with conservative radio host Clay Travis, Trump tried to deflect the criticism, saying Democrats were the “weird ones.” He insisted, “Nobody called me weird. I’m weird in a lot of things, but I’m not weird. And I’m straight. And he’s not either, I’ll tell you. J.D. is not weird at all. They are.”
“We are not strange people, in fact we are quite the opposite,” Trump added.
In 2015, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) observed that “Donald when he comes across a poll he doesn’t like, he gets weird and does these kinds of weird things, and that’s fine—that’s the kind of campaign he wants to run and he’s entitled to it.”
Then in 2017, after Trump’s ill-fated inauguration speech, the 43rd US president, George W. Bush, offered a succinct assessment of the matter, saying: “That was a strange thing.”
If one of the strategic intentions driving the Democratic Party-wide anti-outsider messaging campaign was to get under Trump’s skin, then in that sense the effort has been successful.
Trump has been complaining repeatedly to advisers and confidants in recent days about how “bizarre” attacks on Trump, Vance and their allies by Democrats and Kamala Harris’s team have been amplified in the media, including on his generally friendly turf, Fox News, according to two sources familiar with the matter. The former president has complained that it makes no sense to him that any “bizarre” attacks on Vance stick in the public consciousness, not when Harris is laughing, for example. (During the campaign, the former president was trying to convince voters that the vice president was “crazy,” based largely on the way Harris laughed.)
“Of course he’s upset about it,” says one source, who speaks regularly with Trump. rolling stone“The Democrats and the media are demonizing this good man who came out of nowhere as a weirdo. It’s an insult to him.” [Vance]“And the millions of forgotten men and women… It's a 'pity' moment for Kamala.”
like rolling stone Vance has reportedly expressed support for a nationwide abortion ban, arguing that it is necessary to prevent women in states with abortion bans from traveling to other states to obtain safe abortions. Roe v. Wade “It was denied,” he said, before adding, bizarrely, “Ohio bans abortion… you know, let’s say in 2024. And then, every day, George Soros sends a Boeing 747 to Columbus to load up a disproportionate number of black women to get them to go get abortions in California. And of course, the left will celebrate this as a victory for diversity.”
Last week, the Harris campaign criticized Vance’s stance on abortion in an email that read: “J.D. Vance is a freak (who wants to ban abortion nationwide),” adding: “Vance is a freak. Voters know it — Vance is the least popular vice presidential candidate in decades.”
And with Vance’s status as the “odd guy” seemingly gaining traction with each passing day (and not helped by his apparent insistence on the right to “go to war” with people who don’t want children), Trump may regret his choice for vice president, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. “It may be one of the best things we could have done,” the Democratic senator added. [Trump] “We did it for the Democrats, after all.”
