At Tuesday's Trump campaign rally in Atlanta, Blow shared his thoughts about the state of the presidential race with Right Side Broadcasting Network.
"You know, Kamala Harris talking a really good game," he admitted, "I've been seeing a lot of Kamala stuff and Harris, you know, for her around here when I was here. So it's kind of like nerve-wracking to me a little bit."
Blow said he believed young men would be the key to a Trump victory. But he acknowledged that women voters were less likely to support the former president.
"I know one thing, I know most African-American men hate Kamala," he said. "You know, there's a lot of women out here that just think Trump's this and that. They're just Trump haters, Trump bigots."
Blow claimed that he had recently lost his house during Hurricane Helene.
To illustrate the strangeness, Wallace began running the video — with a timer in the middle of the screen.
"After a town hall, if we're still calling it that, we're certainly not around here, that was meandering and bizarre and uncomfortable to watch, and devolved into a listening party of Donald Trump's favorite tunes," Wallace said at the top of her show, pointing out that it raises more questions about Trump's "stability."
She also pointed out that Trump told his audience to vote on Jan. 5 — rather than Nov. 5.
"That happened. He took just a few questions from North Dakota Governor Kristi Noem of dog-killing fame in front of a preselected audience, and of course, it wouldn't be a Trump event without Donald Trump going on a long diatribe about the fictional character Hannibal Lecter," Wallace continued.
While Trump asked for a song and a chart and rambled for a moment, the music didn't begin consistently playing until the last 39 minutes of the rally.
"He stood and he swayed to the music right there on stage, periodically rambling but mostly just standing there swaying silently," said Wallace.
Then she explained how she would illustrate "how excruciating long and completely weird it is for anyone, let alone a candidate for the presidency."
The video appeared on the screen with a stopwatch running, counting minute after minute of Trump standing on stage awkwardly.
"And I know we're in the Trump era and I know everything has been normalized but you decide for yourself over these next 39 minutes if you want to use a lifeline. Call a friend, and ask if they think that's normal."
A Boston Globe reporter shamed those who downplayed Donald Trump's decision to stop answering questions from his fans and instead play music and dance.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr suggested the world could be witnessing the "live sundowning" of a presidential candidate.
The term sundowning describes when an older adult begins having different behaviors in the late afternoon or early evening. The Alzheimer's Society said that the person can become " intensely distressed, agitated and have hallucinations or delusions."
MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell laughed about the incident, calling it, "a break for 30 minutes" that reminded her of "American Bandstand." The incident was twice as long, with Trump dancing and calling out songs to play for 57 minutes total.
Republican strategist Susan del Percio said that it made her think of the old cartoons and Vaudeville shows where a giant hook would come out to drag someone off stage.
Mitchell said it was clear his supporters loved it, but she asked Atkins Stohr whether something like that could hurt his chances with swing voters.
"He is supposed to answer questions," Atkins Stohr said of the town hall. "He is not. He is sort of melted down into this bizarre, inexplicable sort of live sundowning in a way. It continues to show his unfitness. And I think characterizing it as a dance party does a disjustice [sic] to it. This is somebody who wants to run the world [and] have the nuclear codes. He clearly did not seem okay."
A Washington Post analyst is shocked no one is talking about a disturbing moment during former President Donald Trump's town hall dance routine — and no, it wasn't when the 78-year-old, who may have forgotten whom he's running against, wandered off stage to the sounds of "Memory."
Philip Bump on Tuesday expressed confusion that one track included in Trump's "weird" playlist — played at a town hall event in Pennsylvania a day earlier after an attendee received medical attention — hadn't caused an uproar.
"Then came a song that I am surprised has not been mentioned more in coverage of the event: 'Dixie,'" Bump wrote, "the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy!"
Bump links to NPR's coverage of "Dixie" and the history of what it calls the nation's "most derisive song."
The report details the song's origins in minstrel shows that featured white people donning blackface, its inclusion in "Birth of a Nation" (the film that helped revive the Ku Klux Klan), and its fan base of segregationists in the 1940s and 1950s.
"Played at a presidential campaign event in the year 2024!" Bump wrote. "Without anyone commenting on it!"
Bump argued that the lack of outrage suggests that the bizarre addition of "Dixie" was forgotten after Trump stepped off stage to a song from the 1983 Broadway cast recording of "Cats."
Yes, "Memory."
Trump's decision to dance to "Dixie" Monday night was made as he courts young, Black voters away from Vice President Kamala Harris, much to the frustration of former President Barack Obama.
“On the one hand, you have somebody who grew up like you, knows you, went to college with you, understands the struggles and pain and joy that comes from those experiences,” Obama said in an address to Black male voters Thursday.
"On the other side, you have someone who has consistently shown disregard, not just for the communities, but for you as a person.”
Three days later, Trump supporters arrived at a boat rally waving Swastika flags and shouting “Make America White Again.”
Ian Sams, a senior adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris, challenged former President Donald Trump to release his medical records.
During a Tuesday interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum, Sams noted that Trump had not disclosed his medical information.
"Can I make one point about men, because I think you raised something?" Sams asked MacCallum. "I think that if you're a man, you're not afraid to put out your medical records."
"If Donald Trump was a real man, he'd put out his medical records," he added. "And so I think he shouldn't be afraid to show the country his health and mental and physical fitness before this election."
"And if he's watching, I hope he understands the importance of telling the American people whether you're up to the job by showing your health information and showing whether you can be fit."
In a series of questions about the economy, Micklethwait desperately tried to keep the conversation on track until Trump had to explain to him, "It's called the weave." The term has become Trump's new way of weaving through dozens of different issues in an effort to answer a simple question.
This raised an immediate hackle from Rick Wilson, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, who posted on X, "Hey, I know! After he has an onstage shart-induced ischemic event let’s let him do an interview! What could go wrong?”
At another point, Trump was asked whether he would agree to a "peaceful transfer of power" after the election. He claimed that's what happened last time. The internet erupted in fury asking how anyone could consider what happened on Jan. 6 the example of "peace and love," as Trump said it was.
Television writer Brian Behar called Trump "a baby." He pointed out that "the reporter asks him one follow-up and Trump whines 'he didn’t want to do the interview.' Putin must be salivating to get his puppet back."
"The decline is real," said Democratic strategist Adam Parkhomenko, who commented after watching Trump talk about Virginia voting when answering questions about breaking up Google as a monopoly.
Trump also fumbled when asked what he would do to reduce government spending. His answer was about the new Air Force One. He then rambled about his attempts to negotiate with Boeing over the price of the new Air Force One, which he then said that he wanted to be like the plane the Saudi leaders use.
Melanie D'Arrigo, who runs the Campaign for New York Health, responded to Trump's plan to bolster the American economy with tariffs: "Donald Trump wants you to pay $735,000 for a $35,000 car."
Former President Donald Trump hurled insults and snarls when faced with Bloomberg News' editor-in-chief's questions about the trillions of dollars experts estimate he'll add to the national debt.
Trump mounted the stage of the Economic Club of Chicago Tuesday to field questions from Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait, who described the estimates on deficit increases as "quite kind."
"I was actually quite kind to you," Micklethwait said to Trump. "I used $7 trillion — the upper estimate is $15 trillion."
The $15 trillion estimate comes from the nonpartisan group the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, as reported by the New York Times.
Micklethwait prefaced his question with an explanation about "Trump Trade" — the market for investors who bet the former president's proposed policies would drive up inflation and interest rates.
"People like the 'Wall Street Journal,' hardly a communist organization," Micklethwait continued, as Trump crossed his arms over his chest, "they have criticized you on this as well."
"You are running up enormous debts," Micklethwait said, prompting Trump to snap back with a shrug, "What does the Wall Street Journal know?"
Trump claimed he wanted to better understand, but before Micklethwait could answer, the former president doubled down on his attack.
"They've been wrong about everything," Trump said. "So have you, by the way."
The crowd erupted in laughter. Micklethwait again tried to offer an explanation to Trump, who appeared sullen as he turned his face away and stared at the floor.
"You're trying to turn this into a debate," Micklethwait said.
"It's not a debate," Trump said, lunging forward. "You're wrong. You've been wrong all your life on this stuff."
Former President Donald Trump argued that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was "a progressive" politician.
During an interview with Bloomberg during an event in Chicago Tuesday, Trump insisted that the dollar would remain the world's reserve currency if he were re-elected.
"If a country tells me, 'Sir, we like you very much, but we're going to no longer adhere to being in the reserve currency, we're not going to salute the dollar anymore.' I'll say that's okay, and you're gonna pay a 100% tariff on everything," the former president vowed.
"You don't have other people that can talk that way," he continued. "You know, a lot of people say we love Trump's policy, but we would like to have another messenger because we don't like him; he's a little bit crass."
"And then actually it was Lindsey Graham — I must say he was a progressive in all fairness — but Lindsey Graham said, but Trump's policy doesn't work without Trump, and there's a lot of truth to that."
For the stunning price of just $924,600, you too can have a "special evening" replete with "ultra MAGA" experiences with former President Donald Trump.
That's according to New York Times reporter Teddy Schleifer, who shared on X Monday night a screenshot of the near $1 million cash-grab Trump sent his donors in the form of an event invitation.
"What will Trump be during the final ten days of the campaign? Fundraising," wrote Schleifer. "This speaks to Trump’s money issues — both he and Vance are spending precious time in New York on Oct. 27."
That's the same night Trump's slated to host a rally at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan — a pre-campaign event his critics liken to one led by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in 1939.
A Team Trump 2024 experience is available to donors willing to either pay $250,000 or raise $500,000, the invitation shows.
The Team America First experience goes to who give $100,000 or raise $200,000 and the Club 47 Experience will either cost $50,000 or $70,000.
And for those MAGA bargain hunters out there, there's a President's Club Experience going for just $5,000.
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This won't be the former president's first return to New York City this campaign season. In May, he was summoned to New York City criminal court where he was convicted of falsifying business records.
A jury ruled Trump had illegally channeled $130,000 in hush money payments to adult film Star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election to bury a sordid story about their alleged affair (which he denies — along with the charges.)
That cash would have bought Daniels a Team America First experience plus President Club nights for six friends.
Former NBC executive Mike Sington argued the invitation served as proof that Trump still badly needs campaign cash and included a snarky joke about the former president's soul.
"Trump’s desperate, he needs money, fast," he wrote. "Check out the 'Ultra MAGA Experience', it’s yours for a cool million bucks. But it includes an exorcism, so it may be worth it."
Asked Bradley Moss, "How broke do you have to be to fundraise 9 days before the election?"
Former President Donald Trump said that he was not a fan of playing football as a child because someone "from a bad neighborhood" could tackle him.
The Republican presidential nominee made the remarks this week on the Bussin' With The Boys podcast.
"I played football too. I didn't particularly like it," Trump told the podcast. "I could catch the ball good but I didn't particularly like having some guy that was, uh, lifting weights all day long and came from a bad neighborhood. Yeah, and he sees me, and they were tackling hard."
The co-hosts of "The View" spent the first two segments of the show on Tuesday talking about Donald Trump's town hall which turned into the former president playing music instead of answering questions.
"It should really freak everybody out — 57 minutes, right?" Goldberg said, claiming that was the time Trump spent playing music when he was supposed to be answering questions. "Fifty-seven minutes of him playing music, not saying jack-doo about anything that has to do with what's going on in the world. This freaked me out. He's freaked me out a lot, but this really upset me."
Joy Behar said Trump seemed lost on several issues. One question about affordable housing resulted in an answer about drilling to get more oil.
Eventually, he stopped all questions as audience members needed medical attention at the Pennsylvania event Monday, and instead started playing music and dancing.
"I mean, the guy doesn't know the difference between a rally or whatever that was and 'Dancing With the Stars,'" said Behar.
Former Trump communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin said it further shows just how bad Trump has fallen.
"I saw this last night. I thought it was a deepfake," she said. She then played a clip of Trump singing "Time to Say Goodbye" during the rally and actor Will Ferrell in the film "Step Brothers" singing the same song.
"I could joke about it all day, but this is serious. This is not even the man I worked for, who had all sorts of problems," Griffin said after laughing. "There's a decline, and I worry the history books might say everyone was quick to call out Joe Biden's age and issues, but we missed that someone else is just flying under the radar, clearly in decline."
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson announced Tuesday that he intends to sue CNN over its bombshell report that claimed he was linked to adult websites and white supremacist message boards — and then was called out by a blunt reporter.
Robinson gave a short statement Tuesday's press conference before making his lawyer available to answer questions.
The pair were then immediately put on the defensive.
In a video clip, an unnamed reporter could be overheard asking: “So you’re saying that a national, a global news organization is conspiring with a third-party outfit to throw an election which was already looking like this person was not going to win?”
Another reporter in the crowd asked, if Robinson had as much proof as he was claiming, why was he standing just with his lawyer instead of being flanked by supportive Republican colleagues?
Another clip posted by the progressive super PAC American Bridge shows Robinson refusing to say the story was false. Instead, Robinson proclaimed the CNN story was, "One of the greatest examples of political interference in this state's history."
Legal analysts mocked the filing of the lawsuit, in part because it would give CNN access to Robinson's information through discovery.
CNN host John Berman enraged Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) after he was asked about former President Donald Trump's threat to deploy the military to fight "the enemy from within" during U.S. elections.
"I do want to ask you about Donald Trump's comments about the quote enemy from within," Berman told Waltz during a Tuesday interview. "He says he's talking about sick people, radical left lunatics."
"It should be very easily handled, if necessary, by the National Guard or if really necessary by the military," the CNN host quoted Trump. "He went on to identify Adam Schiff as one of these people."
Berman wondered if Waltz, a veteran, would support deploying the military against Rep. Schiff (D-CA).
"Well, I don't think that's what he said, John," Waltz said, denying Trump's quote. "I think you're connecting some dots there."
"But you're not suggesting deploying military against him," Berman said of Schiff. "Do you want to deploy military against Adam Schiff?"
Waltz admitted he did not want to deploy the military against the Democratic lawmaker.
"Do you think, Congressman, do you think deploying military against political opponents is something that is responsible to discuss from political candidates?" the CNN host asked.
"I think it's responsible to discuss deploying the National Guard, which is clearly part of the military, John, to keep our streets safe, to keep rioters out of the street," Waltz replied. "And that's what he was talking about. And that is not good for the country."
"Well, again, he called Adam Schiff a lunatic, and specifically was talking about lunatics for the military," the CNN host noted.
Waltz attacked CNN: "People are on this network calling Trump, calling Trump Hitler, and the next coming of another dictator, and two people have tried to kill him."
"I do understand you have talked about some of the rhetoric that's been at play here, and we could talk about Mark Milley calling Donald Trump a fascist, but you yourself sometimes use heated rhetoric," Berman shot back. "You've referred, you did an interview with Newsmax where you're talking about socialists, seeming to refer to Vice President Harris as a socialist."
"Socialism is a long-standing political ideology," Waltz said. "That's very different than saying someone is going to be the world's most god — I mean, god-awful dictator in Hitler, and that clearly is radicalizing people to take action where they believe the ends justify the means to kill him."
"What's fascism?" Berman pressed.
"I don't think that's a fair comparison at all, John," Waltz asserted.
"You don't?" the CNN host reacted. "I mean, you talk about Marxism, you talk about socialism, and do you think Kamala Harris is a Marxist or a socialist?"
Waltz argued Harris had proposed Marxist policies.
"All I'm saying, Congressman, is that when Mark Milley says, no one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump, now I realize he's a total fascist," Berman explained. "He's saying that Donald Trump espouses fascist policies, and it's a political ideology. Fascism is a political ideology."
