Trump says he’s ‘entitled’ to attack Kamala despite warnings from allies: Donald lists everything he’s angry about as he uses tables of Cheerios and Wonder Bread to say her policies will turn US into Venezuela

Former President Donald Trump vowed to continue his personal attacks on Kamala Harris on Thursday night, saying he had plenty of reason to be angry during a rambling news conference on the steps of his New Jersey golf course.

Behind him, assistants had placed boxes of Cheerios, tubs of instant coffee, and packages of Wonder Bread.

The goal was to illustrate how prices had risen under the Biden-Harris administration.

But the event was also meant as an opportunity to portray his new opponent as a dangerous left-wing politician bent on destroying the country.

And he said he would ignore allies who warn him that negative attacks scare off undecided voters.

“I am very angry with her for what she has done to the country,” he said at a decidedly unconventional press conference at his golf club in Bedminster.

‘I’m very angry with her for using the legal system against me and other people, very angry with her.

“I feel entitled to personal attacks.”

There’s never anything normal about a Trump press conference. And this one was anything but normal, from the moment he walked down the three steps of his clubhouse, amid cheers from fans, to the moment he finished answering questions to sign hats.

His campaign has been in the doldrums since Harris replaced Joe Biden, leaving Trump without a fragile, vulnerable target at 81 years old.

Insiders said Thursday’s news conference had been planned for a long time, along with the launch of “Jewish Voices for Trump” afterward. The whole point was to begin defining Harris for the segment of the population that doesn’t know her well.

Yet it also had the feel of a live-streamed pick-me-up, giving Trump a chance to put aside his recent troubles and enjoy a candid speech (nearly an hour and 10 minutes) before sparring with reporters for almost as long.

At times he stuck close to his script and repeated inflation figures.

“Electricity prices are up 32 percent,” he said. “Gasoline prices are up 50 percent and still going up. Meanwhile, real incomes are down more than $2,000 a year.”

At times his supporters, who stood around the cameras, cheered and booed.

They arrived as if it was just cocktail hour on the Bedminster scene, staff driving them around on golf carts.

Full-lipped ladies in festive dresses stood shoulder to shoulder with golfers in polo shirts and a Greek Orthodox priest whose gold chain outshone anything the women wore.

The ninth hole on the old course provided a backdrop for the whole surreal scene and did nothing (at least in the eyes of his supporters) to detract from Trump’s positioning as a man of the people.

His plan, he said, was simple. He would open up gas and oil production (“We will drill, baby, drill,” in his words), bring down energy prices and bring down the cost of weekly groceries. He gave no figures to support the plan.

In contrast, he described Harris’s efforts to crack down on corporate price gouging as “communist price controls.”

“If it worked, I would agree to it too,” he said.

“But they don’t work. They have the exact opposite effect. They lead to food shortages, rationing, hunger, dramatically more inflation.”

He said she wanted to turn the US into a northern Venezuela.

Outside the press room he found a receptive audience.

“My question is, has Kamala Harris ever been in a grocery store since she became vice president?” asked Leora Levy, who ran for U.S. Senate in Connecticut two years ago wearing a White House pin and scarf given to her by Melania Trump.

“Does she know how hard it is for families to actually put food on the table?”

It was the latest event to illustrate how Trump is willing to face the media head-on, unlike Harris, who has yet to give an interview since becoming the Democratic nominee.

And it came as Trump tried to regain the initiative after three weeks of rising donations and enthusiasm for Harris.

This week, the Trump campaign shook up its top staff, bringing back Corey Lewandowski, who was Trump’s first campaign manager in 2015, and Tim Murtagh from his 2020 campaign, two figures from the MAGA Inc super PAC, and others.

Lewandowski, Taylor Budowich, a former Trump spokesman, Alex Pfeiffer, who was a producer for Tucker Carlson at Fox News before joining the super PAC, online campaigner Alex Bruesewitz and Tim Murtaugh will all advise senior campaign officials.

Trump often has to deal with impatient behavior toward his staff when his numbers disappoint.

This week, a DailyMail.com/JL Partners poll found Harris’ entry into the race gave him a two-point lead. Other polls have been even less positive, showing him trailing his new rival.

Against that backdrop, he has appeared in the media more often and on Monday he had a two-hour online conversation with X owner Elon Musk.

But he has struggled to stay on message. A speech in North Carolina on Wednesday, billed as a major economic piece, included a list of his usual grievances and claims that California was now “unliveable.”

Trump waved away the data as the sun set over Bedminster. “I tend to vote low,” he said, recalling how he shocked the world with his surprise election victory in 2016.

And he said the uproar was not a sign of a failed campaign.

“It’s a sign that we want to close it,” he said.

Every now and then, he admitted, his eyes were drawn to the grocery display. With the plastic-wrapped maple ham sweating next to jars of mayonnaise and Oreos, it was like a nostalgic trip to the 1950s.

“I haven’t seen Cheerios in a long time,” Trump said, recounting his votes in the 2020 election. “I’m taking them to my cottage.”