Trump's Big Reset Quickly Veers Into Attack On Kamala Harris' Laugh, Time Cover
Former President Donald Trump’s speech Wednesday in the battleground state of North Carolina was supposed to be focused on the economy, which, as he noted from the stage, “they say [is] the most important topic.”
But from the beginning, the event in Asheville more closely resembled any other Trump campaign rally.
Though he discussed a smattering of economic policy proposals, Trump spent the bulk of his time drifting from immigration at the southern U.S. border, grandiose claims about his first White House term, personal attacks on his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, and other familiar themes.
Notably, Trump occasionally pronounced his opponent’s first name correctly.
“What happened to her laugh? I haven’t heard her laugh in about a week,” Trump said of Harris. “That’s the laugh of a crazy person, I will tell you, if you haven’t noticed. She’s crazy.”
He floated the idea that Harris’ campaign was telling her to stop laughing in public because it attracted criticism from Republicans.
“They told her don’t laugh, don’t laugh,” he claimed. “Her laugh is career-threatening. She doesn’t laugh anymore. It’s smart, but someday it’s going to come out. That’s the laugh of someone with big problems.”
Trump also took issue with Harris’ Time magazine cover, which featured an illustration of her by graphic designer Neil Jamieson.
“She went from being a totally disrespected person six weeks ago, nobody thought she had a chance — and now they’re putting her on the cover of Time magazine with an artist’s sketch,” Trump said.
“They don’t use a picture, they use an artist’s sketch,” he said, adding that he wanted “to find that artist” because he likes him “very much.”
The economic proposals Trump outlined included a plan to “open up