Donald Trump was branded “weak” by Biden supporters after suffering an embarrassing stumble at a rally in Minnesota.
The presidential hopeful was giving a speech Friday when he ran into trouble at the podium.
The video shows Trump, 78, stumbling forward and grabbing the lectern to steady himself.
But he manages to maintain his composure before going on a “rant” about the quality of the build.
‘You know this is the worst platform, who set up this stage?’ He jokes before putting the flimsy-looking podium back into its place.
Donald Trump was branded “weak” by Biden supporters after suffering an embarrassing stumble at a rally in Minnesota.
The presidential hopeful was giving a speech Friday when he ran into trouble at the podium.
“This damn place is falling down,” he continued, eliciting a roar of laughter from the crowd.
“I notice that it continues to lean to the left, like many other things,” he added, again causing an uproar. “What a bad contractor this was.”
However, his opponents seized the moment as a test of weakness.
“A weak Trump nearly falls on stage after leaning on his podium too much and then gets angry calling his event workers ‘damn,'” read a post on X from the Biden-Harris headquarters.
The ages and abilities of both Biden, 81, and Trump have been called into question amid the election cycle, and each has suffered embarrassing mistakes that their teams have tried to blame on senility.
A shocking poll released earlier this year found that 60 percent of Americans do not believe Trump or Biden have the mental capacity to serve as president.
But this was of little concern to the thousands of people who showed up to hear Trump speak at the Minnesota Republican Party’s annual Lincoln-Reagan dinner in St. Paul.
During his speech, Trump repeated the unfounded claim that the last presidential election, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden, was marked by widespread fraud.
Trump was in St. Paul for the Minnesota Republican Party’s annual Lincoln-Reagan dinner.
He took the opportunity to repeat the unfounded claim that the last presidential election, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden, was marked by widespread fraud.
He falsely told those gathered that he won Minnesota in 2020, to enthusiastic applause from the audience.
But outside the dinner, dozens of pro-Palestine demonstrators and demonstrators could be seen holding signs reading “Remove Trump.”
“I know we won (Minnesota) in 2020,” Trump said to applause. ‘We have to be careful. We have to monitor those votes.”
Ahead of their Nov. 5 presidential rematch, Trump campaign officials have insisted publicly and privately that Trump can beat Biden in Minnesota.
While unrest in the state appears possible, available polls and the state’s political history indicate that the former president faces an uphill battle.
Major independent polls show Biden with a slight but steady lead in Minnesota, typically between 2 and 4 percentage points.
A Trump campaign official did not directly say whether they planned to devote resources to the state.
While rural areas of Minnesota have leaned Republican over the past decade, suburban areas around Minneapolis have leaned Democratic, reflecting broader national trends.
During the speech, Trump repeated his calls for a “mass deportation” of immigrants in the country illegally, and doubled down on his promises to build a new missile defense system, comparing it to Israel’s “Iron Dome” program.
But outside the dinner, dozens of pro-Palestine demonstrators and demonstrators could be seen holding signs reading “Remove Trump.”