Donald Trump went on a wild, nearly five-minute tirade about bulletproof glass around him during his outdoor rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday.
He complained about the protective measure, but said he was okay with the fact that if someone wanted to kill him again, he would have to “shoot through the fake news.”
The former president spoke again about how he likes to “weave” during his rallies amid continued attacks on his sharp speeches that regularly last longer than an hour.
“Most of them are failed writers – they’re not even good writers, okay, they’re bad writers,” Trump said of the press during his rally. “So they don’t understand the fabric today. They’ll never be able to do that.’
At one point, during an argument about Democratic “cheating” in the presidential election, Trump demanded that the winner be announced no later than 11 p.m. on Election Day.
Trump spoke in Lititz, Pennsylvania, on Sunday for his first of three swing state rallies.
Former President Donald Trump went on a nearly five-minute rant about the bulletproof glass surrounding him at the outdoor event during his rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania
With just two days until the 2024 presidential election, Trump is also holding rallies in North Carolina and Georgia, which are also battleground states this election cycle.
The outdoor rally in Pennsylvania included a nearly 360-degree enclosure of bulletproof glass around the former president’s podium after two separate assassination attempts on him — including at his July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
For a time, Trump moved all his rallies to indoor stadiums and arenas. When he returned to outdoor events, the increase in bulletproof glass was noticeable.
During the rally on Sunday, Trump said he felt there should be no glass in certain areas because it made him look bad on television.
“To get me, someone would have to go through the fake news, and I don’t mind that — I don’t mind that,” he said, chuckling.
“So I have a piece of glass here, and the problem with that glass is that it – I don’t look great on television when you have a four-inch piece of glass that a howitzer can’t get through,” he said for reference. to the style of the cannon.
Trump continued, again pointing to the barrier between himself and the public: “The problem is, if you look at me tonight, you say, ‘the president doesn’t look very good.’ How the hell do you look good? Look at the size of this sucker.”
Trump said: ‘To get me someone would have to shoot through the fake news, and I don’t mind that so much,’ as he complained about the installation of the thick glass barrier
In an earlier part of the speech on Sunday, the Republican presidential candidate said results should be finalized the night of Election Day on November 5.
The former president said any time off after that date will only be used by Democrats to “cheat.”
“I don’t know what’s going to happen, but for future elections – I won’t even be a part of it – but you damn well should go to paper ballots, you should go to voter ID and you should have The election is over nine hours passed,” Trump said.
‘I now hear that it will take weeks. Can you imagine?’ he complained.
“And what do you think happens during those twelve days?” Trump questioned the crowd, and they shouted back, “They’re cheating.”
“These elections have to be – they have to be decided on Tuesday night at 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00.”
It continues the former president’s rhetoric claiming Democrats cheated again by “stealing” the 2024 presidential election after claiming they won that way in 2020.