COACHELLA, Calif. \u2014 Former president Donald Trump suggested that a heckler would later get \u201cthe hell knocked out of her\u201d during an insult-laced speech here Saturday that portrayed a dark image of the country and demonized undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n
As Trump called the Nov. 5 election a \u201cchance to send a message,\u201d he stopped his remarks and turned to the crowd.<\/p>\n
\u201cBack home to mommy, she goes back home to mommy,\u201d Trump said, resuming his speech and appearing to address a heckler. \u201c\u2018Was that you darling?\u2019 And she gets the hell knocked out of her. Her mother\u2019s a big fan of ours, you know that right? Her father, her mother. You always have that.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was not the first time Trump has used violent language to attack hecklers who interrupt his rallies. In 2016, after a heckler interrupted a Las Vegas rally, Trump told the crowd: \u201cHere\u2019s a guy throwing punches, nasty as hell, screaming at everybody else,\u201d before adding: \u201cI\u2019d like to punch him in the face.\u201d In Iowa during the same campaign, he also encouraged supporters to \u201cknock the crap\u201d out of potential hecklers.<\/p>\n
During his Saturday speech in Coachella, Trump repeated falsehoods about migrants and sought to portray the country in apocalyptic terms. He described the elections on Nov. 5 as \u201cliberation day,\u201d comparing the United States to an \u201coccupied country.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are known all throughout the world now as an occupied country,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe\u2019re like an occupied country. We got people taking over parts of Colorado, we have people taking over other states, a lot of states don\u2019t want to talk about it, because they\u2019re embarrassed \u2026 But it\u2019s no different really than if we lost a war.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump used similar language on Friday, when he visited Aurora, Colo. Trump has promised to launch a deportation program called \u201cOperation Aurora\u201d to dismantle \u201cillegal migrant criminal networks\u201d operating in the United States, under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The law was last invoked during World War II to intern immigrants of Japanese, German and Italian descent.<\/p>\n
Trump vowed to remove members of Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan gang. Aurora officials, including the Republican mayor, say authorities there have arrested eight people linked to Tren de Aragua but dispute the gang has \u201ctaken over\u201d apartment buildings, as Trump repeatedly claimed.<\/p>\n
In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, Trump has leaned into an anti-immigrant message. Earlier this week, he suggested that undocumented immigrants who commit crimes have \u201cbad genes.\u201d While speaking here Saturday, Trump described the border as the top issue and continued to portray undocumented immigrants as criminals, even as federal data shows that the vast majority of people arrested at the southern border do not have criminal convictions. There\u2019s little evidence that undocumented immigrants commit more crime than U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n
The California rally capped off a controversial week for the former president during which he said he had been to Gaza when he hadn\u2019t; suggested CBS News should lose its broadcasting license; continued to spread misinformation about the Biden administration\u2019s hurricane relief efforts; described \u201cThe View\u201d co-host\u2019s Sunny Hostin as a \u201cdummy\u201d; and insulted the city of Detroit while giving a speech there.<\/p>\n
The Washington Post polling average has Vice President Kamala Harris leading in four of the seven battleground states. Every state is within a normal-sized polling error of 3.5 points and could swing either way.<\/p>\n
The unusual decision to hold a rally in California, a deep blue state, followed a similar decision to hold an event in another Democratic stronghold, Colorado, and a plan for a rally at Madison Square Garden later this month in New York. The decisions are part of a general pattern in which, unlike the Harris campaign, Trump and his allies are leaning into the idea that they are winning.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s remarks in California carried the same themes that he has featured in swing states. He repeatedly mispronounced Harris\u2019s first name. He warned about being \u201cvery close to World War III.\u201d He described Democrats as \u201cprofessional thieves.\u201d<\/p>\n
And he continued to insult both Harris and other opponents. He referred to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) as Gavin \u201cNew-scum.\u201d He jabbed at former GOP primary rival Chris Christie\u2019s weight. And he called Adam Schiff, the Democratic nominee for an open Senate seat in California, unattractive and repeated his frequent criticisms of the size of Schiff\u2019s neck.<\/p>\n
\u201cPencil neck!\u201d A woman in the crowd yelled as others cackled.<\/p>\n
\u201cTampon Tim!\u201d a man shouted as Trump spoke, referring to the nickname MAGA supporters have given to Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz. Trump has used the phrase, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s a ho!\u201d others yelled as Trump moved on to Harris, using a term for a sexually promiscuous woman.<\/p>\n
The audience grew especially animated when Trump pointed out the \u201cfake news\u201d watching from the press pen, jumping up on their seats to boo and give thumbs down in what has become a Trump rally tradition.<\/p>\n
Later, there were more shouts from the crowd after a video montage about Harris. \u201cKa-MAL-a sucks!\u201d a man yelled, mispronouncing Harris\u2019s name. Another man stood up from his seat to yell that Harris was dumber than a rock, prompting yet another man to shout that they shouldn\u2019t be unfair to rocks.<\/p>\n
A minute later, someone yelled again: \u201cShe\u2019s a ho!\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump has repeatedly spoke disparagingly about the state of California, where Harris served as a district attorney, an attorney general and a senator. During his speech Saturday, he said California \u201cstood as the beacon of what our country aspired to become \u2026 It had everything, it had the weather, it had the water.\u201d But he then proceeded to say \u201call that was eradicated by decades of the very policies that Kamala Harris wants to now force upon America.\u201d<\/p>\n
During his speech, Trump once again threatened that, if he became president, he would withhold funds for California wildfires if Newsom didn\u2019t change his water policies. The remark came at the same time that Trump has been criticizing the Biden administration for its allegedly slow response to hurricanes in the Southeast.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll say, Gavin, if you don\u2019t do it, we\u2019re not giving you any of that fire money that we send you all the time for all the forest fires that you have,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
LeVine reported from Washington.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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