Trump Roasts GOP Candidate While Worrying Stage Might Collapse: ‘Thank Goodness Mark Lost a Lot of Weight’

Former President Donald Trump was very worried during a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday that the stage might collapse and singled out controversial GOP candidate for governor, Mark Robinson, as luckily having lost some weight – so as not to break the stage.

Trump began his remarks, as he often does by thanking all of his supporters. “Mark Robinson, he’s out there,” Trump said of the GOP candidate, adding:

He’s fighting, he’s fighting. He’s a great one. And I think we have a lot of our sheriffs here. Don’t we have — where are they?

Will this stage hold them? I’d love to bring them up. Come on, sheriffs, get up here. Mark. Come on. We got — I don’t know if the stage is going to hold on, but if it doesn’t …

We’ve had bigger risks than this. Come on sheriffs. If you weigh more than 200 pounds, don’t come up. I’m only kidding. Come on. Hi, fellas.

Trump then shook the hands of everyone who came up and added, “These are great people, but I want to get them the hell off the stage because I guarantee they didn’t have this in mind when they built this. Thank goodness Mark lost a lot of weight over the last couple of months. You did actually!”

Robinson, the current lieutenant governor, made national headlines last month when it was revealed he recently called for extrajudicial killings during a June 30th speech in a small town church. The New Republic first reported on the speech, writing:

“Some folks need killing!” Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, shouted during a roughly half-hour-long speech in Lake Church in the tiny town of White Lake, in the southeast corner of the state. “It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity!”

Robinson, who was endorsed by Trump ahead of the GOP primary vote, has made headlines in the past for homophobic rhetoric and for even quoting Hitler in a Facebook post about racial pride – a comment he later defended.

Robinson will face Democrat Josh Stein, the state attorney general, in the general election to replace term-limited Governor Roy Cooper (D). Robinson’s run has resulted in an avalanche of headlines pointing out his past rhetoric.

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