Trump admits he had no idea he was doing town hall with Tulsi Gabbard - while on stage with her

Donald Trump admitted he had no idea he would be taking part in a Wisconsin town hall event with Tulsi Gabbard as he stood on stage with the former Democrat.

The former president told the crowd in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, that he actually thought he would be delivering a prepared campaign speech for his supporters on Thursday night.

“I figured I was going to come here and we’re going to make a speech. I have a speech all set for you. I was ready. [And they said, you’re] doing a town hall. I said, ‘Oh, nobody told me that.’ I said, ‘Who’s doing this? Tulsi?’ I said, ‘Well, that’s at least good news.’

“She’s been, I’ve been a fan of hers for a long time, after, so, so, I didn’t even know. I’m in the plane, and looking over some material, and we’re going to give you a hell of a speech tonight. We were set to give you one hell of a speech. They said, ‘No, sir, it’s a town hall.’ I said, ‘Why doesn’t somebody tell me this stuff?’”

As Gabbard sat by, a rambling Trump talked about establishing government-funded IVF and his desire to increase the US birth rate, detouring into a slew of other subjects before telling attendees that he “sort of announced” his IVF plan at a Michigan rally earlier in the day.

“I just felt that it would be a good place to announce it,” Trump went on. “And we did sort of the announcement there a little bit. And now we do the big announcement tonight in front of all of these television stations, all of the fake news. They’re all over the place. I don’t know what’s going on. We don’t even know, I was saying, because we’re doing this.”

Trump also admitted he had no idea which TV stations were covering the event.

“And I don’t even have any idea who we’re doing it for,” he continues. “I don’t know, is it for a