Harris campaign mocks Trump's Mar-a-Lago 'meltdown' and fact-checks controversial claims

Kamala Harris' presidential campaign quickly responded to former President Donald Trump's peculiar news conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, putting out a lengthy statement debunking many of his false statements — and going out of its way to troll him.

The release titled, "Donald Trump's Very Good, Very Normal Press Conference," was accompanied by a post to X from the @dril account — notorious for absurdist commentary — which stated, "and another thing, im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad."

"Donald Trump took a break from taking a break to put on some pants and host a p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ public meltdown," it said.

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Trump "hasn’t campaigned all week," the campaign said.

"He isn’t going to a single swing state this week. But he sure is mad Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are getting big crowds across the battlegrounds. The facts were hard to track and harder to find in Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago meltdown this afternoon. He lied. He attacked the media. He made excuses for why he’s off the campaign trail. We’re here to help because his staff clearly isn’t."

The release made dozens of fact-checks and highlighted controversial things Trump said, including: that Jan. 6 was "decidedly nothing like MLK’s 'I Have a Dream' speech." and that Trump did not draw a larger crowd than Martin Luther King Jr. on that "historic day."

"Donald Trump said he was off the trail this week because of the Democratic convention. (That convention is not happening this week)," the campaign said, adding that Trump "does not knowthe difference between asylum seekers and an insane asylum" and that "abortion is not 'less of an issue' for voters. It is not 'subdued.' It is not a 'small issue' for voters, despite how much Donald Trump wants it to be."

The @dril account expressed annoyance that the Harris campaign was using its post, as subsequently posting, "in case you thought IDF Rape Camps were the worst thing our government is sanctioning."