Former Trump Staffer Admits Philly Town Hall Debacle Was 'Hilarious' But Issues Dire Warning
We are less than three weeks away until Election Day, and Donald Trump's campaign tours are starting to go totally off the rails. While speaking at a town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania, on October 14, 2024, Trump decided to end his speech early and instead take control of the aux cord to play his favorite tunes. The event had already dealt with two medical emergencies in the crowd, so after the second one, the former president decided to skip answering any further questions and had someone on his team turn on music instead. This awkwardness lasted half an hour, with Trump dancing while the crowd puttered out. Trump has run into trouble in the past for using songs without permission during his campaigns, but that didn't stop him this time, either. Wonder if his son, Barron Trump, was embarrassed (again) by his dad's dance moves?
While Trump's behavior was unhinged for a presidential candidate during the last leg of the race, it certainly caught the attention of "The View" cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump staffer.
Griffin, who initially thought the video was a deepfake, admitted that while the dancing was funny, there's an underlying seriousness voters need to realize. "There's a very real decline, and I worry that history books might look back on this election and say everyone was quick to call out [Joe] Biden's age, and the issues about another four years, but we missed that someone else is just flying under the radar, clearly in decline," she said.
The View cohosts and people on social media were shocked by Trump's behavior
People may believe President Joe Biden is unwell, but, according to Alyssa Farah Griffin, so is Donald Trump. Griffin's fellow "The View" cohost, Whoopi Goldberg, also wasn't having any of Donald Trump's erratic behavior. She pointed out that Trump just refused to answer any questions that voters would like to hear from him about how he could, as he claims, "make America great again."
"It should really freak everybody out. 57 minutes. 57 minutes of him playing music, not saying jack doo about anything that has to do with what's going on in the world," Goldberg said. "This freaked me out. He's freaked me out a lot, but this really upset me."
Many people on X, formerly known as Twitter, shared Farah and Goldberg's reaction to the bizarre town hall. "Donald Trump is not well," one person tweeted, which was also a trending hashtag. Another person compared Trump's behavior to Biden's: "BREAKING: Joe Biden abruptly stopped a "town hall" after only 5 questions, then ordered music to be played while swaying awkwardly for 30 minutes. Oh wait, sorry, that was DONALD TRUMP. Last night. So why isn't the mainstream media calling on him to drop out of the race?"