Associated Press
Former President Donald Trump invited reporters to his New Jersey golf club Thursday for his second news conference in as many weeks as he adjusts to a newly energized Democratic ticket ahead of next week’s Democratic National Convention.
Trump will meet the press at 4:30 p.m. EDT as he steps up his criticism of Vice President Kamala Harris for not holding a news conference or sitting down for interviews since President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign and endorsed her to replace him.
The Vice President has barely engaged with reporters since becoming the Democratic nominee, though she travels with journalists aboard Air Force Two and sometimes answers shouted questions while boarding or leaving the plane for campaign stops.
In one brief interaction last week, she told reporters she wants “to get an interview together by the end of the month.”
Trump on Wednesday made little effort to stay on message at a rally in North Carolina that his campaign billed as a big economic address, mixing pledges to slash energy prices and “unleash economic abundance” with familiar off-script tangents.
He aired his frustration over the Democrats swapping the vice president in place of Biden at the top of their presidential ticket. He repeatedly denigrated San Francisco, where Harris was once the district attorney, as “unlivable” and went after his rival in deeply personal terms, questioning her intelligence, saying she has “the laugh of a crazy person” and musing that Democrats were being “politically correct” in trying to elevate the first Black woman and person of south Asian descent to serve as vice president.
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that Americans are more likely to trust Trump over Harris when it comes to handling the economy and immigration, issues that he has put at the center of his case for returning to the White House.
In his news conference last week, Trump taunted his rival, boasted of his crowd on Jan. 6, 2021, and lashed out at questions about the enthusiasm Harris’ campaign has been generating. He spoke for more than an hour and made a number of false and misleading claims.
Thursday’s news conference will be livestreamed on apnews.com.
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Republished with permission of The Associated Press.
36 comments
Michael K
August 15, 2024 at 1:26 pm
At least he keeps fact-checkers employed.
BTW: I thought convicted felons were not allowed to vote in Florida.
Tom
August 15, 2024 at 1:55 pm
Didn’t Rhonda setup a goon squad for that? So much for election integrity.
Dont Say FLA
August 15, 2024 at 4:38 pm
Rhonda’s Goon Squad claims felonies don’t count toward losing one’s voting rights unless the felonies were in Florida, but Donald’s felonies, so far, are only in NY
Josh Green
August 16, 2024 at 4:11 pm
The party of Law & Order! LOL
Michael K
August 15, 2024 at 1:30 pm
His last “new conference” clocked 162 fact-checked lies in 62 minutes – possibly a new record even for Felonius Trump.
FLPatriot
August 15, 2024 at 1:49 pm
Americans are sick of the constant media from candidates. It is refreshing to NOT hear from one every 5 minutes. We can hear from her at the debate.
Ocean Joe
August 15, 2024 at 1:55 pm
Here at the resort he will admit that he not only cheats on his wives, his contractors, and his elections, but he cheats at golf, too.
Michael S
August 15, 2024 at 2:22 pm
Well, he comforted his handlers with 10 mins of economic policy in NC…now he can go full throttle today with insults, run-on sentences of repeated memes, bragging and of course, lies about history and other previously documented facts….i can’t wait.
Day 25
August 15, 2024 at 3:31 pm
One candidate does press conferences and interviews. The other won’t. She, her handlers, and her party leadership know that. She is nothing without her teleprompter. Come and n Kammy, we want more word salad. And before Tom takes his shot at me on why many of us want to see the spotlight on her, your own Jim Acosta, who loathes anyone in the Republican Party, is startimg to call foul on the Camp Kammy basement plan. Yes Trump is an a-hole. I have never denied it but he is out a hole. Kammy can’t think on her feet and she is as dumb and lost as Joe.
Ocean Joe
August 15, 2024 at 4:41 pm
Just watched Joe Biden speak (or read) on lowering RX drug prices, at a joint appearance. He was shockingly alert though he always stumbles when he has to read numbers. Had he been “on” his game like that during the debate we’d still be stuck with him. I suspect not running makes him more comfortable, and despite being spanked by Nancy and forced to quit he seemed very happy.
So what’s your boy’s problem? Very cranky, needs a nap, and a truckload of fresh lies…the one’s he keeps spouting are getting tiresome unless you’re a Trump rally fanatic. His lines about her laugh were pretty good, not serious or appropriate for a presidential candidate but good.
Michael K
August 15, 2024 at 4:48 pm
It was good presser, and Biden still has a good sense of humor – he’s been trying to get this done since 1973. He joked that he served in the Senate for 270 years. Can’t imagine the orange man with a sense of humor.
Telling that not a single Republican voted to lower prescription drug prices. Not. A. Single. Republican.
Remember that.
Michael K
August 15, 2024 at 3:39 pm
Google “Stolen Valor Lincoln Project” to see what Donald Trump says about valor.
Dont Say FLA
August 15, 2024 at 4:35 pm
But nobody at all is scheduled to watch it. Turns out, nobody wants to watch an irrelevant, weird old man yelling “get off my lawn” for 2 hours.
Day 25
August 15, 2024 at 4:40 pm
I don’t want to watch the hologram reading the teleprompter either.
Linwood Wright
August 16, 2024 at 4:12 pm
Trump doesn’t use a Teleprompter?
Michael K
August 15, 2024 at 5:19 pm
Correct. Nobody wants to watch or listen to the convicted felon.
Day 25
August 15, 2024 at 5:40 pm
I’m talking about giggles. Although I love Kammy’s Word Salad. Come on Kammy, we needs some laughs around here
Michael K
August 15, 2024 at 6:59 pm
Pay attention to responses to the article. The article is about your orange messiah, the convicted felon, the object of Project 2925.
Day 25
August 15, 2024 at 7:14 pm
Ka Mana provides so much more laughter when she tries to ad lib. I mean it’s something for the Comedy Channel. You havr to admit that light bulb is dim. 🤣
ScienceBLVR
August 15, 2024 at 6:38 pm
Perhaps Trump will break into song foretelling his political future… Cue ABBA
…The history book on the shelf
Is always repeating itself
Waterloo, I was defeated, you won the war
Woah, woah, woah, woah, Waterloo
Finally facing my Waterloo
My, my
I tried to hold you back, but you were stronger
Oh, yeah
And how could I ever refuse?
I feel like I win when I lose….
Tom
August 16, 2024 at 7:49 am
Aside from avoiding the consequences from all his criminal activities, I have no idea why he’s even running. He could have stayed in the background and played kingmaker, Nikki Haley could have been the nominee and we’d still be talking about a landslide republican victory. Oh well, narcissists gotta be narcissists I guess.
SUPER ELVIS
August 15, 2024 at 7:48 pm
Good evening Sage Patriots & ELVIS’ Besty Leftys,
STAND BY FOR NEWS:
In an uplifting, inspiring address to the American people, Vice-President Kamala Harris offered a valuable bit of advice to American citizens struggling to put food on the table: just try sleeping with your boss.
While Kamala refused to elaborate on her pearl of wisdom for the everyday American, she did go on record by saying that it “worked for me every time.”
“So if we examine the passage of time in making ends meet, we can see that the easiest solution is to just try sleeping around with your boss,” Kamala explained, cackling at every pause for breath. “HAHAHAHA! It works every time — and there’s great significance to the passage of every time. Sleeping with your boss is very simple: you just sleep with them in order to make ends meet. That way your ends will meet. There is great significance to making ends meet. HAHAHAHA!!”
While several political commentators have compared Kamala’s advice to Marie Antoinette’s infamous “Let them eat cake,” most mainstream media outlets have thoroughly debunked this far-right conspiracy theory with the irrefutable observation that “Kamala never told anyone to eat cake — she just advised sleeping around.”
At publishing time, Kamala Harris had also suggested that Americans who are struggling financially should just try getting hired in a better job as DEI picks.
And that, ELVIS Sage Patriots & ELVIS’ Besty Leftys (who have pledged to cast their TRUMP VOTE) …..
IS THE REST OF THE STORY:
SUPER ELVIS
*FREE BUMPER STICKER*
*ELVIS’ BESTY LEFTY ON BOARD … VOTING TRUMP*
rick whitaker
August 17, 2024 at 7:33 pm
SUPER ELVE, what about raygun saying, ” let them eat jellybeans ” super elve, your posts are dangerous to mental health, where is your required public warning sticker
Day 24
August 15, 2024 at 9:47 pm
Comedy Central gonna broadcast live Kammy’s economic proposals tomorrow. It’s going to be comedy at its best. Tune in for giggles as she reads the teleprompter. Going for price controls. Hilarious. Do we remind the zombie force on who brought us this inflation in the first place?
Tom
August 16, 2024 at 8:05 am
Quick, not trump approved, fact check:
“The percentage of prime-age Americans employed is at a 23-year high. Inflation is down by about two-thirds from its peak in 2022. Violent crime, which rose significantly during Donald Trump’s last year in office, has been falling fast.”
The question becomes is she a better messenger than biden was? I get it with the giggling but as they used to say when I raced motorcycles, you can get a fast rider to stop crashing but you can’t get a slow rider to go fast. Maybe she’ll meet the moment. I’m pretty sure trump won’t.
Yrral
August 16, 2024 at 7:49 am
American choose the lifestyle they live and cannot live, nobody forces Trump too but 5 dollars bags of Cheetos for makeup
Yrral
August 16, 2024 at 7:55 am
This election revolved around insecure White men’s,who have used government to get ahead in the beginning of this country,use it own the native American, Slaves and even White women,for their benefits ,now the table have turn these groups have no fear of White men,lots of them are here projecting their insecurities
Day 25
August 16, 2024 at 8:23 am
Now what site did you google to read that BS?
Yrral
August 16, 2024 at 2:36 pm
It something you live everyday
rick whitaker
August 17, 2024 at 6:27 pm
day 25, yarral was talking about you, you fool.
Day 25
August 16, 2024 at 8:37 am
On a related subject, giggling Harris is blaming price gouging for inflation. Hilarious. The comedy show starts early today. Where has she been for the last four years?
cassandra was right
August 16, 2024 at 3:29 pm
Harris is correct.
“Greeting: : corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study shows….
Multinationals in particular hiked prices far above rise in costs to deliver an outsize impact on cost of living crisis, report concludes.” —The Guardian
“’ Greedflation caused more than half of last year’s inflation surge, study finds, as corporate profits remain at all-time highs.” —-Fortune
Record Corporate Profits!
Record CEO pay!
cassandra was right
August 16, 2024 at 6:02 pm
Corporate greed is real. Price gouging is real:
“….if you compare corporate profits in 2019 to the last four years, you’ll find corporations have gouged their way to an almost unbelievable $1.5 trillion in excess profits since 2020—that’s in addition to their pre-pandemic profit rates.
….the average American household has paid an eye-popping $12,000 in higher prices solely to pump up quarterly corporate profit margins.” —-New Republic
CEOs are on video bragging about their record profit margins!
The problem is: RECORD CORPORATE PROFITS!
STOP the PRICE GOUGING NOW!
Dont Say FLA
August 16, 2024 at 1:08 pm
Has Turnip Truck Trump recovered yet or is he still a bitter, angry old man yelling “They’re on my lawn because they’re coming for your lawn” to whoever’s listening
Tom
August 17, 2024 at 7:53 am
Won’t be long and Mar-a-Lago will become Abajo-del-Mar and having a lawn won’t be an issue any more 🙂
Dont Say FLA
August 17, 2024 at 10:28 am
I saw a few outtakes from the country club gold course club house ramble about high prices. Turnip Truck seemed to be extremely interested in taking those Cheerios home. I reckon they’re exactly the right size for a tiny mushroom injection. Saves on milk, I suppose?
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