Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Trump National Golf Club, in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Thursday (Picture: Reuters)
Former President Donald Trump blamed his 2024 opponent Kamala Harris for price hikes while surrounded by sugar breakfast foods.
Trump pitched his economic plan while standing next to a table full of pastries, pie, sweet cereals, bacon, instant coffee and other items at his New Jersey golf club on Thursday afternoon .
The breakfast items were meant to illustrate the increasing prices for food and beyond, which Trump attributed to President Joe Biden’s unpopular economic record and his second-in-command, Harris.
‘Kamala Harris is a radical California liberal who broke the economy,’ said Trump, ‘Broke the border and broke the world, frankly.’
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives for a news conference outside the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster on Thursday (Picture: Getty Images)
As Trump spoke about the 2020 presidential election which he believes was stolen from him, he digressed to a box of cereal.
‘I haven’t seen Cheerios in a long time,’ he said. ‘I’m going to take them back to my cottage.’
Trump also sought to justify his continuing personal attacks against Harris.
‘As far as the personal attacks, I’m very angry at her because of what she’s done to the country. I’m very angry at her that she would weaponize the justice system against me and other people, very angry at her,’ Trump said.
Ex-President Donald Trump sought to contrast his economic plan to that of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris (Picture: Getty Images)
‘I think I’m entitled to personal attacks.’
Harris is expected to unveil her economic plan promising to try to ban groceries price gouging in a speech in North Carolina on Friday.
The Trump campaign recently made his economic plan a focus as they try to contrast his policies while Americans continue to feel the impact of inflation.
But in a rally in Asheville, North Carolina, on Wednesday, Trump veered off the economy topic and launched numerous personal attacks on Harris, saying she has ‘the laugh of a crazy person’ and that she’s ‘not smart’.
People adjust American flags as groceries sit on a table before Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a news conference at his New Jersey golf club (Picture: Getty Images)
On Thursday, Trump stuck more to a script in his binder for about a half hour, but that did not stop him from criticizing Harris.
‘I don’t have a lot of respect for her intelligence and I think she’ll be a terrible president,’ he said.
The Trump campaign on Thursday also announced it was bringing back some of his former advisers to his reelection campaign, including Corey Lewandowski, Taylor Budowich, Alex Pfeiffer, Alex Bruesewitz and Tim Murtaugh.
Trump has struggled to stave off the ‘Harris honeymoon’ since Biden ended his reelection campaign and made way for her, with polls showing Harris leading in some battleground states.
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