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Donald Trump went on a rampage against vice presidential nominee Senator Kamala Harris in a nearly hourlong phone interview with Fox Business on Thursday morning, calling the senator a âcommunistâ and a âmonster.â
Speaking with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, Trump â who is only three days out of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he was hospitalised for COVID-19 â launched into an assessment of Harrisâ performance during the vice presidential debate.
âI thought that wasnât even a contest last night,â Trump said. âShe was terrible. I donât think you can get worse. And totally unlikeable. And she is. Sheâs a communist. Sheâs left of Bernie. Sheâs rated left of Bernie by everybody. Sheâs a communist.â
Trump â who has been releasing bizarre videos in recent days and pitching an experimental drug from Regeneron that hasnât completed testing in clinical trials â went on to argue that Joe Biden was ânot mentally capable of being presidentâ and wouldnât last two months on the job. He then called Harris a âmonsterâ twice.
âThis monster that was onstage with Mike Pence, who destroyed her last night, by the way,â Trump said. âThis monster, she says, âNo no, there wonât be fracking,â there wonât be this. Everything she said is a lie.â
Harris repeatedly stressed that Joe Biden would not ban fracking over the course of Wednesdayâs debate, and the Pennsylvania State Building and Construction Trades Council, a union that represents workers in Pennsylvaniaâs fracking industry, endorsed Biden for president in September.
Aside from insulting Harris, Trump declared that he would not engage in a virtual debate against Democratic nominee Joe Biden, calling the process a waste of his time, and claimed that he was looking forward to holding future rallies â despite multiple members of his inner circle testing positive for COVID-19 last week due to his events.
The president also declared himself a âperfect physical specimenâ and that he had been cured of COVID-19, ignoring the experimental nature of the Regeneron drug, as well as the fact that as president, he had access to health care unavailable to the majority of Americans. Furthermore, there is no known cure for COVID-19.
Trump has long painted Harrisâ policies as more radical than those of Sen. Bernie Sanders, who ran squarely to Harrisâ left in the Democratic primary. And he previously drew flak from even the conservative New York Post for referring to Harris as a âmad woman.â
His analysis of Harrisâ debate performance was echoed by other pundits and GOP politicians, such as Senator Chuck Grassley, who also zeroed in on her mannerisms and âlikabilityâ with equally sexist undertones.
Watch Trumpâs entire interview below.