Trump rallies in 2020 went off the rails. There were bizarre, funny, and unexpected moments. Even now. In the Year of Our Lord 2020, we thought “WTF? We didn’t see some of these coming.” The President loves to talk directly to his supporters. Some say he’s down-to-Earth. Others say he’s on another planet. Whatever the case may be, Trump really brought it to his rallies. My favorite moment was from the last election when he killed a mosquito and yelled “I hate mosquitos!” Alas. It got weirder since then.
Here are the things you probably think didn’t happen at Trump rallies in 2020, but believe me, they did:
1. Trump saying “Your ass! I don’t talk about my ass” while discussing ongoing civil unrest. Presidential!
Trump: You know what I say? Protest this, your ass. I don’t talk about my ass pic.twitter.com/CFel9t5Ooj
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) August 28, 2020
2. Trump held a rally in Tulsa that he claimed a million people RSVP’d for, but the stadium was half-empty thanks to kids on TikTok reserving all the tickets and not coming.
3. That same Tulsa rally killed Herman Cain.
4. Trump had to prove at a rally that he could drink water like a normal human being after looking odd while drinking water at a previous rally. The crowd goes wild.
Trump drinks some water. The crowd goes wild. pic.twitter.com/Sv9Z7GxrAV
— Pod Save America (@PodSaveAmerica) June 21, 2020
5. Trump also had to prove he could walk down a ramp because he looked weird doing it somewhere else. Again, the crowd loses it.
Trump is reenacting walking down the West Point ramp. pic.twitter.com/46TgmwgkRD
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) June 21, 2020
6. Trump introduced Lil Pump as “Little Pimp” and really enunciated it so you knew he had no idea who it was.
Lil Pump takes the stage at the Trump rally shortly after 1amET on Election Day. Trump introduces him as “Little Pimp” pic.twitter.com/cS7yqT7c5Q
— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) November 3, 2020
7. A girl on TikTok shares a video of herself doing a truly weird dance Trump did at a rally and Ivanka doesn’t realize he’s being mocked.
Love it! https://t.co/taww2dUgqD
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) October 19, 2020
8. Trump spends time, on national TV, talking about how he’s not a fan of sharks and he’s all right with not saving them.
Today in off-prompter vs. on-prompter… pic.twitter.com/TrnxSBO8mR
— The Recount (@therecount) August 20, 2020
9. Trump claims that an unnamed dictator doesn’t want to deal with Joe Biden because he “sleeps all the time.” Trump adds “can you believe it?” because no. No, we can’t.
Trump, who has repeatedly said that foreign leaders want Biden to win because Trump is so hard on them, now makes stuff up and claims that a foreign leader told him they want Trump to win because “we don’t want to deal with someone who sleeps all the time.” pic.twitter.com/4S8neuLIoj
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 26, 2020
10. Trump fishes for compliments by naming all the places that “don’t want me” and after the crowd screams that they do, he apparently danced to YMCA and left the stage.
Trump: Nobody wants me pic.twitter.com/Xt7gnaAJaT
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) October 21, 2020
11. Trump takes “any press is good press” to a whole new level at a rally by claiming a shooting is, well, yeah, about him.
12. Although he himself is obese, Trump takes a jab at an overweight man, and later finds out it was a supporter, not a protestor.
Trump to supporter at rally: “That guy’s got a serious weight problem” pic.twitter.com/SGX6aTDMXW
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) August 16, 2019
13. Prince’s estate keeps telling Trump not to use the artist’s music at rallies, and Trump refuses to comply.
14. Trump kicked off a rally saying he was immune to COVID and then threatened to walk into the audience and “kiss everybody… the guys, the beautiful women.”
After suggesting he’s immune, the President says he feels so powerful he’ll walk into the audience and kiss all the guys and “beautiful women” pic.twitter.com/tLDGGYtyHl
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) October 12, 2020