One of the recent attacks on Donald Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance, appears to be getting under the former president’s skin as he insisted on Thursday that he’s not weird.
“She actually called me ‘weird,’” he said of Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday. “And she called JD and I ‘weird.’ He’s not weird, he was a great student at Yale.”
Trump then attacked Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who has been vocal about calling Republicans weird.
“We have this guy that’s running a failed, really a very failed state who’s had a terrible career,” Trump said. “I mean you have him saying, ‘They’re weird.’ No, he’s a weird guy, and she’s weird in her policy.”
Democratic figures have taken to 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.”
It was also eating at him earlier this month during a radio interview.
“They’re the weird ones,” Trump said. “I’m a lot of things, but weird I’m not.”
Walz said he calls Trump and other Republican figures “weird” because it robs them of some of their power to cause fear.
“The fascists depend on fear,” he said last month. “But we’re not afraid of weird people. We’re a little bit creeped out, but we’re not afraid.”
Trump’s critics found his latest attempt to argue that he’s not weird unconvincing: