Trump Fumes Over Mic Issue At Rally: Want Me To 'Knock The Hell Out Of People Backstage'?

Former President Donald Trump used apparent technical issues during a Friday rally to toy with the idea of attacking people working the event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Youve got to be kidding. Do you want to see me knock the hell out of people backstage? asked the GOP presidential nominee, who called it a pretty stupid situation after rallygoers chanted fix the mic during his speech.

He later added: I get so angry. Im up here seething. Im seething. Im working my ass off with this stupid mic. Im blowing out my left arm. Now Im going to blow out my right arm and Im blowing out my damn throat, too, because these stupid people.

He went on to rant about retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, his former chief of staff, before continuing to fume over the apparent microphone issues.

Trump also complained about the low height of microphone stands at his events and showed how he would work around such issues, bobbing his head up and down in what many observers suggested was an imitation of oral sex.

Trump's closing argument to Wisconsin: four straight minutes complaining about his microphone pic.twitter.com/SieYxQgFhY

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Trump's closing argument to Wisconsin: four straight minutes complaining about his microphone pic.twitter.com/SieYxQgFhY
Ben Wikler (@benwikler) November 2, 2024

Trumps Milwaukee remarks came just one day after he suggested at an Arizona event that former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) would be less of a radical war hawk if she experienced guns being trained on her face.

Cheney who has endorsed Trumps 2024 rival, Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris condemned his imagined scenario, saying: This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death.

Harris slammed Trumps remarks about Cheney as disqualifying , adding that anyone who uses that kind of violent rhetoric is clearly disqualified and unqualified to be president.

Trump has a history of using such rhetoric at his rallies. He suggested that a protester could get the hell knocked out of her at an event in California last month.

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In 2016, he told supporters in Iowa to knock the crap out of hecklers. Trump separately told a crowd in Nevada that year that hed like to punch a protester in the face.

You know what they used to do to a guy like that in a place like this? he said. Theyd be carried out on a stretcher, folks.