‘I think Joe put them in’: Trump blames rival for his teleprompter malfunctioning at bumbling Ohio rally in which he claimed Biden beat Obama and mispronounced names including the Rolling Stones

Former President Donald Trump blamed his successor, President Joe Biden, for some awkward moments with his teleprompter when he spoke at a rally in Ohio on Saturday afternoon.

Trump, speaking at a windswept airfield outside Dayton on Saturday, drummed up support for his presidential campaign with Biden and his preferred Senate candidate Bernie Moreno.

The presumptive Republican nominee, 77, repeatedly noted that he had difficulty reading from his teleprompters, which could be seen visibly whipping in 35-mile-per-hour gusts.

As the prompters moved around and Trump became increasingly visibly frustrated – at one point he said ‘don’t pay these suckers!’ at those who had set it up – at the inability to understand his speech, he joked: ‘I think Joe Biden put them in!’

Although he boasted about how great it was ‘to have a president who doesn’t need a teleprompter’, he made some clear speech errors during the meeting without being able to use it.

Most notably, he claimed that President Biden had once beaten former President Barack Obama in an election after saying that Trump would beat Biden by “the largest margins ever.”

‘You know what’s interesting? Joe Biden beat Barack Hussein Obama, anyone ever heard of him? Every swing state Biden beat Obama, but in every other state he was killed.’

He was also recorded struggling to say the name of the band The Rolling Stones, whose music Trump’s team uses during rallies, calling them ‘The Rolling Storns’.

During his retelling of his infamous ‘The Snake’ story, Trump also mispronounced the word ‘bite’.

Progressive media also claimed Trump mispronounced candidate Moreno’s name, pronouncing it more like ‘Marino.’

A former Trump critic, Moreno, a wealthy Cleveland businessman, endorsed Marco Rubio for president in the 2016 Republican primary and once tweeted that listening to Trump was ‘like watching a car crash that makes you sick, but you can stop looking. ‘

In 2021, NBC News reported on an email exchange around the time of Trump’s first presidential run in which Moreno referred to Trump as a “lunatic” and a “lunatic.”

On Saturday, however, Moreno praised Trump as a “great American” and lashed out at those in his party who have been critical of the former president, who this week became his party’s presumptive candidate for a third consecutive election.

“I’m so tired of Republicans saying, ‘I support President Trump’s policies, but I don’t like the man,'” he said as he joined Trump on stage.

Trump also dismissed the latest allegations against Moreno, comparing them to attacks he has faced over the years, including his criminal charges.

The former president has been indicted in four separate cases spanning his handling of classified documents to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

“He’s getting a very tough Democratic faux pas right now,” Trump said. “And we will not stand for it.”

In his remarks, Trump also accused Biden of posing a threat to Social Security as he continued to clean up comments from an interview earlier this week in which he appeared to express openness to cuts.

“Your Social Security will be gone,” he warned of a second term in Biden, even as Biden has pledged to protect and strengthen Social Security as it faces a projected budget deficit.

‘You will not be able to have Social Security with this guy in office because he is destroying the economy of our country. And that includes Medicare, by the way, and American seniors will be in big trouble.’

‘I made a promise that I will always keep Social Security, Medicare. We will always keep it. We will never cut it, he said.

Trump is struggling to catch up to President Joe Biden’s massive fundraising advantage with just eight months until the election.

The Republican National Committee has just $40 million in the bank, compared to the $130 million Democratic operations had last month.

The huge gap in funding is growing steadily as Democrats open their wallets to support Biden’s campaign to keep the White House.

Democrats raised more than $10 million in the 24 hours after the State of the Union last Thursday, far higher than Trump’s biggest day, when he raised $4.2 million after his mugshot in the Georgia election fraud case was released.