Former President Donald Trump expressed frustration over a fly that bizarrely approached his lecture during a rally speech.
Trump was on stage in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, making a point about a hat, when he seemed distracted by the creature.
“Oh, there's a fly,” the former president said. “I wonder where the fly came from?”
One spectator shouted “Kamala.”
Trump continued: “Look, two years ago I wouldn't have had a fly here. You change quickly. We can't keep it up any longer.” It was not clear who the president was referring to before changing the subject.
Trump: Oh, there's a fly. Oh, I wonder where the fly came from. Look, two years ago I wouldn't have had a fly here. You change quickly. We can't handle it any longer pic.twitter.com/ZiLoNJfuTQ
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 28, 2024
The internet reacted quickly to Trump's unexpected outburst, with MSNBC host and legal analyst Katie Phang saying: “This is not normal.” Meanwhile, American Bridge 21st Century, which describes itself as a Republican accountability group, said: “Trump is exhausted and struggling to stay the course. He starts a story about a hat, but is distracted by a fly and never finishes it. He starts a completely new story and struggles with the word 'unique'. Many others drew comparisons between Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence after a fly landed on his head and stayed there for nearly two minutes during his 2020 debate with Kamala. Harris.
In separate remarks during his speech, Trump used harsh rhetoric against Harris, calling him “mentally retarded” and “intellectually retarded.” Harris visited the US-Mexico border earlier this week and most of Trump's speech focused on migrants who have entered the US illegally.
Posters of migrants charged with murder and other violent crimes surrounded Trump on stage. Some of them read: 'End Migrant Crime' and 'Deport Illegal Migrants Now.' He referred to those charged as “monsters,” “stone-cold killers” and “vile animals.”
He continued to blame Harris and President Joe Biden for the influx of migrants entering the country, claiming some of them wanted to “rape, pillage, steal, pillage and murder the people of the United States of America.” A 2024 study by researchers at Northwestern University found that immigrants have never been incarcerated as often as people born in the United States over a 150-year period.
Speaking at her own news conference from the border, Harris vowed to fix the country's “broken immigration system” and accused the former president of “fanning the flames of fear and division.”
