Trump Did Not Realize His Town Hall Was a Town Hall Until He Got Up On Stage: ‘Why Doesn’t Someone Tell Me This Stuff?’

Former President Donald Trump held a town hall with Tulsi Gabbard in Wisconsin on Thursday — but he didn’t know it was a town hall until the event actually started.

This is not based on insider information, this was exactly what Trump told the crowd that had gathered in LaCrosse. The whole conversation — which included his brand new position on IVF treatments — was captured on video by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and posted to YouTube, but his recounting his discovery that he was conducting a town hall instead of a speech starts around the 1:24 mark. Trump told Gabbard:

I figured I was going to come here and we’re going to make a speech. I have a speech all set for you. I was ready. And they said, “Sir, you’re doing a town hall.” I said, “Ohhhh, nobody told me that.” I said, “Who’s doing this?” They said, “Tulsi.” I said, “Well, that’s at least good news.” She’s been, I’ve been a fan of hers for a long time, I have to tell ya. So, I didn’t even know. I’m in the plane, and looking over some material, and we’re going to give you a hell of a speech tonight.

We were set to give you one hell of a speech. They said, “No, sir, it’s a town hall.” I said, “Why doesn’t somebody tell me this stuff?” And I don’t even have any idea who we’re doing it for. Is it for a network or what? I see a lot of television over the place, so maybe it’s on all of them.

Watch the video above via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on YouTube.

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