Does anybody know the name of that peace prize? The peace prize? Well, that's the president of the United States on stage in South Carolina last night asking a crowd of supporters to help him remember the name of the award he has wanted more than anything else for years. And then he called it the Pulitzer.
A very interesting development overnight as the president seemed more confused than usual at his campaign rally in South Carolina, where he was stumping for Darlene Graham. And a lot of you have asked me because many in the legacy media don't necessarily touch on the fact that the president seems more confused, seems more lost these days at various rallies. Well, I'm going to cover it because I think it's important to recognize where the president's current mental state is at.
And so, we're covering a rally where Trump's confusion went beyond the usual. A White House that continues to punish reporters for simply doing their jobs. Truth Social is sinking to an all-time low. Russia hit Kiev with missiles right after Trump's envoy praised Putin. And there is a war with Iran, by the way, still that's getting worse by the hour.
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And let's start with Trump's rally in South Carolina. Trump held a roughly 90-minute rally at Clemson University to campaign for now Senator Darlene Graham, who's in a very tight race, surprisingly, with Democrat Annie Andrew. South Carolina traditionally has been a red Senate seat, but this year it's a lot closer. And across the 90 minutes, there were at least four moments that had people in the audience asking what is going on.
We'll start with the peace prize. Trump went on his usual rant about the peace prize, talking about how he deserves the peace prize, talking about how he wanted the peace prize and never got it, but proceeded to confuse it. He said, quote, they gave the wonderful peace prize, right? Does anybody know the name of that peace prize? The peace prize then goes, they gave the Pulitzer Prize to a young lady. I think she's 80 years old, a young lady who nobody ever heard of.
The woman he's talking about is Na'vi Pale. She's 85 years old, a former UN human rights chief, and a former judge on the International Court of Justice. She won the Nobel Peace Prize, not the Pulitzer. Earlier this month, Trump went after her on Truth Social, writing, "I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else." So, the man who resents her award the most couldn't remember what the award was called.
But next, there was the numbers. And Donald Trump started confusing about his investments. For months, Trump has said he secured $22 trillion in new investments. Now, the White House's own figures are about half of that. And economists say even that isn't a real number. But last night, he said we secured commitments for 22.2 trillion in new investments. Then 22.2 million, uh, billion, sorry, billion with a B, not an M. If it was an M, we'd be in big trouble with a B. 22 billion.
So, in one breath, his signature economic claim went from trillions to millions to billions. He settled on a figure 1,000 times smaller than what he usually says. No one knows where the $22 billion claim came from and the White House isn't responding when being asked.
And then came the oceans. He started talking about the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Told a story about talking with the Google CEO about renaming the Atlantic the American Ocean. Then he moved on to the Pacific. The Pacific Ocean. We're going to call it the American Ocean. How do you think Europe would feel? Do you think they'd like that? Well, only problem is Europe does not actually touch the Pacific Ocean anywhere. Not sure why they would care.
And then seemingly got confused about how he renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America by claiming that he just got rid of the of in Lake of America, even though that was never actually a name in the first place. He also forgot his own nickname for the super fans who follow him from rally to rally, the front row Joes. He called them the front row Jacks first and then tried to fix it, saying that there's a front row Joe, there's a front row Jack, we got them all up front.
Now, to be fair, any one of these could be a slip. Everyone misspeaks, but a whole run of them in one speech from an 80-year-old president is something voters have started to notice. The gaps, the glitches, the confusion are well beyond his usual.
There's one more thing from his rally that I don't want to skip. Protesters disrupted it again, which has now become a norm at his campaign stops. He was interrupted four times in Kansas, according to the White House press. Last night, he was interrupted multiple times and watched a supporter appear to strike a protester and enjoy it. When he told the crowd to imagine he was on the ballot in this midterm, in a way, he is.
And the rally came just hours after he blew up our reporters. And the reason for it matters because Trump weighed sanctions on Russia that were part of the Lindsey Graham bill that he signed into law. Caitlyn Collins pressed him on it. And while he lashed out at her, he lashed out at her for even asking the question, proceeding to call her a dummy. Take a look.
You don't know anything. I mean, you're fake news. CNN. Look, right now you have a man that's beautifully flying from Russia to wherever he's landing in the United States that I got out because I had a very good and very fast negotiation with President Putin. If you would have put those sanctions on or whatever you want to call him, you could forget about him. You'd never see him again. He'd be back in jail for 25 years.
The other thing very important, we're negotiating with Russia right now on Ukraine. We may be close to a deal. For the first time in a long time, we're maybe close to a deal. When you're close to a deal and you have very delicate negotiations, you don't put sanctions on. And the other thing, we have decimated Iran. Russia has had very little input into Iran. They have certainly, they could have done a lot more, but I'm not sure they did almost anything. That's something that you have to take into consideration also.
So, we've beaten Iran. We continue to beat Iran and Russia and China frankly have not been certainly much of a player and we appreciate that. So the people that say that oh let's put sanctions on, you know, I have the right to do them any day.
