His comments came at his first rally after Kamala Harris chose Walz as her running mate.
On Friday, Donald Trump slammed Tim Walz as "freakish" and too leftist, using his first rally since the Minnesota governor joined the Democratic ticket to test a volley of charges against him.
"He's very freakish," Trump claimed during a rambling address in Montana. "If Comrade Walz and Comrade [Kamala] Harris win this November, the people cheering will be the pink-haired Marxists, the looters, the perverts, the flag burners, Hamas supporters, drug dealers, gun grabbers and human traffickers."
Trump accused Walz of advocating socialism, of being very liberal on immigration and LGBTQ issues, and of allowing "rioters and looters to burn down Minneapolis" following George Floyd's murder in 2020. He linked the vice president to her new running mate's beliefs, claiming, "This is her worldview. "That is why she chose him." He worried that Harris and Walz would transform America into a "full-blown communist country."
He also responded to Walz's hallmark portrayal of the GOP.
"We're not weird," Trump stated. "We're the opposite of weird. "They're weird.
Trump also continued to attack Harris, who is out-fundraising him and gaining in recent surveys. The former president, who routinely mispronounces Harris' first name, claimed he doesn't "care if I get it right" and that "nobody really knows her last name." He labeled her "dumb" for not conducting a sit-down interview since reaching the top of the ticket. (Harris has stated that she would like to do so by the end of the month. In an attempt to paint Harris as "dangerously liberal," he presented a video featuring snippets from her last presidential campaign in which she backed gun buybacks and banned fracking, positions she has since abandoned.
If Clinton wins in November, Trump declared, "We're not going to have a country anymore."
Trump's statements come only hours after Harris and Walz appeared at a rally in Arizona, where the vice president addressed immigration, a crucial campaign issue. At the event, Harris promised to fight for "strong border security" and blamed Trump for the failure of a bipartisan border accord in Congress earlier this year.
"He talks a big game about border security but he does not walk the walk," she told me.
Trump accused Harris of permitting a "invasion" at the southern border.
The former president flew to Montana, a reliably red state that he won by 16 percentage points in 2020, to support Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy's campaign to unseat Sen. Jon Tester, one of the chamber's most vulnerable Democrats. It's a bit of unfinished business for Trump, who campaigned for Tester's previous Republican opponent after the senator blocked his nomination to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.
"He's terrible, he's terrible," Trump remarked of Tester on Friday, before mocking his weight.
Trump had to take a detour on his route to Bozeman when his plane was diverted to Billings due to a mechanical issue. Trump's jet landed safely, and he flew to Bozeman on a different aircraft. He is also raising funds in Wyoming and Colorado during his Rocky Mountain trip.
