Trump continues to 'babble at clouds' as he suffers his 'worst week yet': columnist

USA Today columnist Rex Huppke on Friday offered up a review of former President Donald Trump's week on the campaign trail that was jam-packed with scathing derision.

Huppke declared it Trump's "worst week yet" and proceeded to ridicule the former president's Thursday press conference in which he was supposed to deliver a policy speech about the economy, but ended up devolving into his standard airing of grievances against his various political foes.

"Given the week the campaign has had, it was nice of them to take the candidate out for a little air and a chance to babble at clouds," he joked. "But Thursday’s event in Bedminster did nothing to quell the rising belief that Trump’s campaign has been a mess since Vice President Kamala Harris rose to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket and surged in the polls."

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Huppke pointed out that Trump's advisers have been imploring him to lay off attacking Harris personally and focus his critiques of her on a policy level -- only to have him completely disregard their advice and making statements such as, "I think I’m entitled to personal attacks, I don’t have a lot of respect for her, I don’t have a lot of respect for her intelligence."

Huppke also noted that Trump went on one of his trademark rants against wind energy, which he said was "ruining everything, killing all your birds, destroying the fields, all these gorgeous fields, you got windmills all over the place and you have birds."

"My, my, my," Huppke remarked. "I’m sure GOP donors are glad to see a campaign laser-focused on windmills and avian safety."

Read the full column here.