Trump heckler removed from Coachella rally as ex-president insults Biden: Live

Donald Trump continued to spread misinformation about FEMA aid being “held back” from people who were affected by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina in an interview with Newsmax.

Speaking with a noticeably hoarse voice, Trump was asked to respond to those who accused him of spreading misinformation.

“Biden is incompetent,” Trump said at first.

He then went on to note that North Carolinians, especially, got hit badly by the hurricane.

“Those people should never vote for a Democrat. Because they held back aid,” Trump said.

North Carolina is a swing state this election cycle.

At Trump’s California rally, he claimed he would enact “hundreds of billions of dollars” in tariffs in order to “benefit American citizens”. However, economists say the opposite would occur – tariffs would raise inflation and cost more for Americans.

“We will take in hundreds of billions of dollars of tariff to the benefit of American citizens,” Trump said.

Tara Sinclair, a Professor of Economics at George Washington University, described to The Independent the former president’s economic approach as pro-business but not necessarily pro-market, stressing he employs a tactic of appealing to certain constituents.

Sinclair, who has spent the last two years working as an appointed Treasury official in the Biden–Harris administration, said most people hear the word “tariff” and assume it only impacts foreign countries but it can have the inverse impact.

“Tariffs would likely be a higher tax on consumers – U.S. consumers,” Sinclair said. “This idea that those tariffs would somehow be magically paid by the foreign companies and wouldn’t be passed through American consumers does not seem to stand out empirically in the data.”

Actor Bryan Cranston, known for his role on Breaking Bad, is campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris in Arizona tonight.

At a rally, he spoke about reproductive rights and abortion rights, emphasizing the importance of reproductive freedoms – a pillar of Harris’s campaign.

“I am not a politician. I am not a doctor or a lawyer but I played all of those on television. But I am a father of a daughter” Cranston said.

Though Trump mostly repeats himself at rallies, he tailors some of his speech toward his audience. In California’s case, Trump brought up drought, homelessness, forest fires and unaffordable homes to speak with potential voters.

The former president claimed he could bring water to California, which experiences droughts and water shortages during summers, and that he would withhold federal assistance to the state when it experiences forest fires if Governor Gavin Newsom doesn’t comply with Trump’s policies.

He also criticized California’s large unhoused population and falsely asserted that increasing immigration into the country would cause the entire United States to look like encampments in Los Angeles or San Francisco.

Actress Lea Thompson, who dated Dennis Quaid from 1982 to 1987, responded to Quaid attending and supporting Trump in California on Saturday evening, insinuating he is “stupid.”

Trump is seemingly angry at New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for claiming he is cognitively declining. At his rally on Saturday evening, Trump brought up the phrase he claims a rallygoer once used to describe Christie: “a fat pig”.

Though the former president brought up the phrase, he also claimed it was not nice to say and scolded those who use it.

The former New Jersey governor told The New York Times that he sees a “decline” in Trump’s “skills”.

“I saw a decline in his skills in ’20 from ’16, and you see significant declines still,” Christie said. “What masks it is that he is still physically pretty vibrant and energetic, unlike the president.”

He added: “But if you listen to him and his ability to make a point, it’s not nearly as good now as it was in 2016, not nearly.”

At multiple points during Trump’s rally in California, he praised the president of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping – calling him “fierce” and praising his leadership.

“He’s a brilliant guy,” Trump said. “Got 1.4 billion people – he rules it with an iron fist. And the press gets upset when I say he’s a smart man”

As Trump began his rally in Coachella he stopped his speech to turn and face the crowd behind him where an apparent heckler shouted at the former president.

“Back home to Mommy, she goes back home to Mommy,” Trump said. “Was that you, darling? And then she gets the hell knocked out of her.”

Trump supporters booed and pointed at the heckler who was then removed.

Donald Trump is on stage in Coachella, California delivering familiar remarks about inflation, the economy, homelessness and migrants.

Underneath the blazing sun, Trump took the stage and put on a MAGA hat. The former president immediately began talking about immigration, claiming the country would become like “migrant camps” in Los Angeles and San Francisco.