Trump Rambles Off Topic for FIVE MINUTES After Fox & Friends Asks Him to Reply to Clip of Tim Walz DNC Speech

Former President Donald Trump rambled for a clean five minutes after Fox & Friends asked him to respond to a clip of Tim Walz’s DNC speech critical of the Republican nominee.

Trump appeared on the Fox News morning show Thursday morning and was confronted by a montage of Walz’s most pointed criticism of the Trump campaign, particularly the controversial “ Project 2025″ drafted by a raft of former Trump aides, but something Trump himself tried to dismiss.

After the clips aired, Ainsley Earhardt told the former president, “All right, so this is your chance to set the record straight. What’s your response?”

In his time-honored fashion, Trump first replied with an insult, calling the Minnesota governor “a total lightweight.” He then went on a nearly three-minute stream-of-consciousness jag that included crime-ridden California, his former Chief of Staff John Kelly confirming Trump called dead veterans losers and suckers, and his “ very fine people on both sides ” comment following the Charlottesville riots.

Trump’s reply:

Well, first of all, he’s a total lightweight. And he shouldn’t be even having any access to possibly being president. The guy he’s been a terrible governor. They’ve had nothing but problems in their state. He has no capability. They call him coach. He’s a semi coach. You coach some football for a little while. This guy is a lightweight and he shouldn’t have access. And for him to say about project 25 is disgraceful. They know I have nothing to do with it. I had no idea what it was. A group of people got together. They drew up some conservative values, very conservative values, and in some case, perhaps they went over the line. Perhaps they didn’t. I have no idea what project 25 is, but they use it and they know it. Just like Charlottesville, totally discredited. They use Charlottesville. You know, Biden gets up all the time, says Charlottesville. He ran because of Charlottesville. We got he got run out of office by the Democrats. They did a coup on him. And he’s sitting someplace in California on a beach because he’s in California, crime ridden, crime ridden place. It’s not the same place. More people leaving than coming. And all of the things that these people have done. Kamala has been the worst. Everything she touched turned bad. California turned bad. San Francisco. You can’t walk into San Francisco. You barely can go into California anymore, people. It’s a state that’s in terrible, terrible crime. Trouble in every other form of trouble. Monetary troubles. It’s got nothing. Drugs all over the place. You go into Los Angeles, you can’t walk down the streets. It’s a shame between Gavin Newsom, but it was really more Kamala because she was your, district attorney in San Francisco. San Francisco is unlivable now. Unlivable 15 years ago as the most beautiful city, one of the greatest cities in the world. Today, it’s unlivable. It’s going to have to be hopefully be able to be brought back, if that’s possible. Kamala, who’s a Marxist and a radical left, frankly, she’s a radical left lunatic. And if she became president, if this country would turn out to be a big version of San Francisco or a big version of California itself. So these guys, they talk about that, they talk about all different things that they know are totally discredited. They have a thing with soldiers where I’m looking over the graves of soldiers and saying, horrible thing about dead soldiers from World War One. It was totally made up. It was a made up story. I confirmed that was confirmed, but my side of it by 26 people in the military that it never happened. They had one lunatic, talking about it, and they use it all the time. There’s nobody that loves the military more than me. Nobody did more for the military. I rebuilt the military. They gave away $85 billion of it away to Afghanistan in the dumbest and and one of the most horrible things that’s ever happened. Probably the most embarrassing moment that ever happened to a country that.

Brian Kilmeade interrupted to say, “the last one in the room, and she was the last one in the room when that decision was made,” to which Trump returned to his seemingly unhinged rant for close to another three minutes:

She was she was the last one. No chance of what she made the decision. She made the decision. And it was one of the most embarrassing decisions. Not Brian, not the fact that we got out the way they got out. I was ready to get out, but I was going to keep Bagram. That’s one of the biggest air bases in the world. It was one hour away from where China makes their nuclear weapons one hour away. Very important that we keep it. They left Bagram the biggest runway, most powerful runways cannot can handle the heaviest loads. This was designed billions and billions of dollars years ago. We gave them the keys. And now China occupies Bagram. We should have kept that. That was the one thing we should have stayed. Not because of Afghanistan, but because of China. And we gave it up. They took the soldiers out before they did. Soldiers first we left people we have to this day, we have people living there. They can’t get out. We 13 great people who I know the families, as you know, 13 great people killed 45, absolutely obliterated the arms and legs and hundreds of people killed during that day, people falling off planes, many people falling off planes from 3000ft up in the air. That’s like three times the height of the Empire State Building. President Trump you’re talking about sad to see you’re talking to them to listen to. Excuse me, but then I have to listen to a lightweight like this, get up and absolutely lie. But they all lied and they mentioned my name. I read where, and frankly, I watched where you said you groups that you said specifically I think they mentioned. Me 297 times. They mentioned the border. Once they mention crime twice, they don’t mention the economy because the economy’s horrible. They defrauded the people of our country with with the job numbers. You saw that 818,000 fake jobs they put in the roles. They thought they could keep it. They thought they were going to keep those numbers until right after the election, when they could announce a revision. But they weren’t able to do that because they had a leaker and somebody leaked the numbers. They were fraudulent job numbers, just like they have fraudulent crime numbers. The FBI didn’t include New York, Chicago and Oakland and a couple of other places that aren’t doing so well. If they would have included those numbers, they’re the worst crime numbers we’ve ever had.

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