Trump Hilariously Claims He ‘Doesn’t Freeze!’ in Viral Gaffe Pushback

Donald Trump got here out swinging Monday morning, pushing again on claims that he froze up during a speech over the weekend and asserting that an obvious mishap involving a wobbly podium was, in actual fact, a shocking feat of his bodily skills.

On his Truth Social platform, the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee first took challenge with the way in which his prolonged mid-speech pause on the National Rifle Association conference Saturday had been made out to be an unintentional gaffe. He mentioned it was really a “commonplace” a part of his speeches and blamed President Joe Biden’s marketing campaign for the supposed misinterpretation of what occurred.

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“My Speech in Dallas this weekend on the NRA’s ‘Endorsement of President Donald J. Trump,’ was attended by a Report Crowd of very enthusiastic Patriots,” he wrote. “The Biden Marketing campaign, nonetheless, put out a Pretend Story that I ‘froze’ for 30 seconds, going into the ‘Musical Interlude’ part, when essentially, the 30 to 60 second interval of silence is commonplace in each one among my Speeches the place we use the Music.”

Footage of Trump’s efficiency—by which he stopped talking for round 35 seconds whereas music performed—was shared on X by the Biden-Harris marketing campaign. The put up accused the previous president of enjoying “QAnon music throughout his weird slur-filled NRA speech,” however didn’t point out him freezing. Others did, nonetheless, including one from an account named “Biden’s Wins” which mentioned Trump “simply glitched out and froze at his rally tonight” and accused him of being “unfit for workplace” and “senile.”

“The rationale they got here up with this Disinformation is that Biden freezes on a regular basis, can’t put two sentences collectively, and might hardly ever discover his method off the stage with out assist,” Trump claimed in his rebuttal. “Donald Trump doesn’t freeze! It’s a MADE UP Biden Marketing campaign story, put out in a dying Newspaper that I by no means heard of, and each Reporter is aware of it, together with the big group that was there.”

Not completed, he additionally set about placing his personal explicit spin on an incident that occurred a day earlier throughout a rally in Minnesota. The Biden-Harris marketing campaign shared a clip of Trump showing to stumble as he leaned on an unsteady podium, pausing his ready remarks to complain. “The frickin’ place is falling down!” Trump says within the footage to roars of laughter. “I discover, it retains tilting additional left—like too many different issues. What a crappy contractor this was.”

In a caption on the clip, the Democrats’ marketing campaign wrote: “A feeble Trump almost falls down on stage after he leans on his podium too exhausting after which goes on an indignant rant calling his occasion staff ‘crappy.’” This too, Trump claims, was inaccurate.

“So far as the rostrum, I really stopped it from falling resulting from good reflexes and energy, two components which Joe Biden doesn’t possess,” he wrote on Reality Social. “Try the clip! Crooked Joe is a very incompetent and corrupt particular person, even with regards to placing out a pretend story like this.”

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