Donald Trump appeared to be running out of steam and memory on Sunday during his fifth rally out of six that he planned over the weekend ahead of Tuesday’s election. The event was held in Kinston, North Carolina.
After arriving late to his second rally of the day, he gave a shout-out to a Republican running for office… except the person was not running in the swing state of North Carolina.
“You have one of the best of all right here. David McCormick,” he told the audience. “Where is David? Is he around someplace? You know, we just left him. He’s a great guy.” The thing is, McCormick is running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, a state Trump visited on Sunday morning.
His tardiness and lethargy appeared to not only affect his energy but also affected attendees early on, with a reporter sharing video of people leaving the event less than five minutes after he began his speech.
A rally exodus seems to be a thing of late at the crowd-obsessed candidate’s rallies. On Friday in Greensboro, North Carolina as Trump was bragging that “we have the biggest rallies in the history of any country,” a camera operator fact-checked him live as he panned around the stadium to show empty seats and people exiting the arena, though it is not clear whether those attendees left the venue for good.
Earlier on Sunday during his first rally, he made dangerous remarks against the media again, while discussing the bullet-proof glass that surrounds him during his rallies.
“I have this piece of glass here,” Trump said. “But all we really have over here is the fake news, right?” which elicited laughs from the crowd.
“And, to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news, and I don’t mind that so much. I don’t mind. I don’t mind that,” he said. His campaign later released a statement saying, in part, “President Trump was stating that the Media was in danger, in that they were protecting him and, therefore, were in great danger themselves, and should have had a glass protective shield, also.”
On Sunday night, Trump rounds out his weekend rally blitz with a rally in Macon, Georgia.
