Trump team slams ‘weird’ jabs coming from Harris, Walz as ‘smokescreen’
Donald Trump’s campaign said it sees the “weird” attacks coming from the Harris-Walz ticket as nothing more than a “smokescreen,” and that voters care more about the economy than playground insults.
Vice President Kamala Harris’ VP pick, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, started the “weird” offensive against Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) before he was selected as the Democratic No. 2. More members of the party have since lobbed the affront at the GOP vice presidential nominee since he was chosen.
The harassment mounted to Walz jabbing Vance during his first appearance with Harris by alluding to the viral meme that falsely claimed that the senator wrote about having sex with a couch in his autobiography, “Hillbilly Elegy.”
“I can’t wait to debate the guy,” Walz said. “That is, if he’s willing to get off the couch and show up.”
Trump has not yet responded in full fury on the “weird” attacks, and an official from his campaign told reporters during a meeting Thursday in West Palm Beach that they think voters will care more about inflation.
“Let’s going to why they’re doing the weird. They’re doing the weird because inflation is out of control,” the Trump official told The Post. “When you go to the store and see how expensive things are, you’re not like, ‘Oh, I heard some Democrat … post a meme saying something about weird,’ you’re saying, ‘I’m pissed off.'”
The official then slammed Walz and Harris for being “weird” themselves.
“With Walz’s background, for example, very weird is having feminine products in elementary school boys’ bathrooms,” the official said, referring to the governor supporting putting tampons in both girls’ and boys’ bathrooms.
“There’s so much weirdness with just their obsession with tearing down so much of the cultural norms. It’s just, it’s a smokescreen. They’re trying to, they said they’re trying to ‘David Copperfield’ their way out of some really, really terrible policies.”
“Have you see Kamala speak? That’s weird. That’s, that’s not presidential,” the Trump official went on.
“When you’re talking about who’s at the top of the ticket, voters want to know that they have a strong president [who] can bring a change. They don’t,” the official said. “And a couple of memes? I mean, Kamala herself. The laugh is weird. It just is. And so, so I think that’s, that’s just a smokescreen.”
