Trump, 80, Launches Confusing Attack on Obama
KENT NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump delivered a wildly erratic rant during an appearance in Kansas on Monday, unleashing a bizarre attack on former President Barack Obama.
Speaking at a campaign event in a suburb of Wichita, the 80-year-old commander-in-chief attempted to lambast Obama over his plans to hit the trail for Democratic Senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.
Instead, Trump launched into an utterly bewildering word salad, accidentally suggesting the former president was headed to court rather than a campaign stage.
“And here’s what I love, because if you’ve ever heard of Barack Hussein Obama, who’s a rotten president, by the way, he’s gonna be testifying for Mohammed,” Trump ranted to the arena.
“He’s gonna be testifying, or I guess, I think he will probably end up being testifying, I don’t know.
Whatever the hell he’s doing, but I guess he’s going up to Michigan, a state that I won also very nicely.
Thank you very much.
I love Michigan.
I don’t believe that Michigan values are gonna allow this guy to get in.
He’s an arrogant guy.
But Barack Hussein Obama is going up there to help him campaign.” The incoherent attack on Obama was far from the only off-the-rails moment of the evening.
Trump, who appeared at the event to shore up support for incumbent Republican Senator Roger Marshall, also raised eyebrows when he deployed an antisemitic slur while defending the politician’s past legal troubles.
Attempting to brush off criticism over Marshall suing more than 700 of his own patients during his medical career, Trump insisted the doctor was simply forced to do so.
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