Donald Trump's announcement that he'll host a press conference Thursday at his New Jersey golf club had laughing critics predicting Wednesday it will be a political swing and a miss.
The Trump National Golf Club Bedminster event, slated to begin at 4:30 p.m., arrives about a week after Trump gave a slew of questionable answers to reporters' questions in a press event at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida social club.
Those answers included claims that Trump's "Stop the Steal" rally was better attended than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic "I Have a Dream" speech and he almost crashed in a helicopter with Willie Brown.
Trump's invitation spurred several satirical rewrites and much mockery.
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"INBOX:" wrote Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign spokesperson James Singer on X. "President Donald J. Trump, man who lost 2020 election and can't get over it, will hold another public meltdown at his house, not in a swing state."
Lev Parnas, the Rudy Giuliani business associate who contributed to Trump's first impeachment hearing, responded with a sarcastic news summary.
"BREAKING: Donald Trump, realizing his crowd sizes are now outmatched, he has pivoted to a new strategy: **Phony Press Conferences** and **Elon Musk Interviews**" Parnas wrote. "Because if you can't win with numbers, why not try with noise?"
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Georgia law professor Anthony Michael Kreis, a frequent commentator on Trump's criminal election racketeering case in that state, had a follow-up question.
"Are we just gonna watch him ramble about bacon without pushback for two hours?" Kreis asked.
Law professor Lee Kovarsky echoed what Trump's campaign spokespeople have been promising now for several weeks.
"Trump will aim to set a new tone," the scholar quipped.
