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Former President Donald Trump once again declared that he would be electrocuted because he would be eaten by a shark during a bizarre tirade at his rally in Las Vegas on Sunday. Trump famously hates both sharks and electric vehicles – including boats. The Republican said he plans to roll back President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle mandates if he is re-elected in the November election.
As his crowd battled temperatures of nearly 100 degrees to hear him speak, Trump discussed what would happen if a battery-powered boat began to sink, hampered by its heavy and “tremendously powerful battery.” “And the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark about 30 feet away,” Trump said. “By the way, there’s been a lot of shark attacks lately, have you noticed?”
Before wrapping up the story about the sinking boat, Trump spoke briefly about shark attacks. “I saw some guys justifying it today: ‘Well, they weren’t really mad, they bit off the young lady’s leg because they weren’t hungry, but they didn’t understand who she was,’” the presumptive Republican nominee said.
‘These people are crazy. He said there’s no problem with sharks, they just didn’t really understand that a young woman was swimming,” the ex-president continued. He then returned to the question: electrocution or being eaten.
“So there’s a shark 10 meters away from the boat, 10 meters… will I be electrocuted if the boat sinks? Water flows over the battery, the boat sinks. Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted?’ Trump asked. “Or do I jump the shark and not get electrocuted?” In October, Trump presented the same scenario to a group of Iowans.
Both times he came to the same conclusion. ‘I will suffer electrocution every time. I won’t go near the shark,” the ex-president said. Trump’s tirade caught the attention of best-selling horror writer Stephen King. “This is like listening to your senile uncle at the dinner table after he’s had that third drink,” King wrote to X Sunday, sharing the video.
George Conway, the ex-husband of Trump’s 2016 campaign manager and White House aide Kellyanne Conway, commented: “This man’s brain should be donated to science.” “(B)ut only if we substantially increase the possibilities to contain biological hazards,” the lawyer and television expert added. Trump’s aversion to sharks is well documented and goes back years.
In a 2011 interview for In Touch Magazine, which was not published until January 2018, Stormy Daniels recalled watching Shark Week programming with Trump in July 2006 at his private bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel. ‘He’s obsessed with sharks. Afraid of sharks. He said: “I donate to all these charities and I would never donate to a charity that helps sharks. I hope all the sharks die.” He was astonished. He was like obsessed. It’s so strange, I know,” Daniels recalled.
In a series of tweets from 2013, Trump publicly discussed his disdain for marine animals. “Sorry folks, I’m just not a fan of sharks – and don’t worry, they’ll be around long after we’re gone,” he wrote in one tweet. “Sharks are last on my list, aside from perhaps the losers and haters of the world!” the then-reality star and real estate developer added.