Donald Trump kicked out two protesters from his Minnesota rally, including one who held up a picture of him with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The protesters were kicked out just minutes apart from each other, as the president loudly mocked them and encouraged the crowd in Duluth to follow.
‘Is that a man or a woman?’ the president asked the crowd about the protester, who wore his hair in a ponytail. ‘Because he needs a haircut…I couldn’t tell.’
Donald Trump kicked out two protesters from his Minnesota rally, including one who held up a picture of him with registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
Billionaire Epstein pleaded guilty in June 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a 14-year-old girl. He served 13 months in prison.
Trump mocked the first protester as he was escorted out of the arena, shouting ‘Goodbye darling!’
‘He’s going home to his mom. Say hello to mommy. And tomorrow the fake news will say “massive protest at the Trump rally.”’
Trump’s main focus at the rally was the ongoing controversy surrounding the separation of immigrant children from their parents at the border.
The president promised the crowd he would be ‘just as tough’ at the border hours after he signed an executive order to end his administration’s own policy.
‘We’re going to keep families together, but the border’s going to be just as tough as it’s been,’ Trump said.
The president then went on a tear against MS-13 and illegal immigrants, hours after he gave in to tremendous public pressure amid an outcry over child immigrants.
‘They’re not sending their finest, that I can tell you. And we’re sending them the hell back,’ Trump said.
The protester held up a picture of Trump with Epstein, who served 13 months in prison for soliciting prostitution from a 14-year-old girl
Trump also mocked another protester, asking the crowd if he was a ‘man or a woman’ and saying he needed a haircut
Trump also hailed his recent summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, to applause from the crowd at a rally held in a state he lost to Hillary Clinton by just 1.5 percentage points.
‘I just got back as you know from Singapore, where I met Kim Jong-un. Where we had a great meeting – great chemistry, we got along really well,’ Trump said.
Trump then listed what he described as a series of concessions by North Korea.
‘They said the president gave away so much, he met with them. I said, what am I supposed to do? Had to meet, right?’ Trump told the crowd.
‘A total de-nuclearization. We got back our hostages. We got back our great fallen heroes the remains. And today already 200 have been sent back,’ Trump claimed.
‘They stopped shooting missiles over Japan. They stopped all nuclear testing. They stopped nuclear research. They stopped rocketry. They stopped everything that we’d want them to stop,’ he continued.
But Trump’s remarks didn’t mention North Korea’s human rights record, instead praising the dictator for turning North Korea ‘into a great successful country’.
Trump also brought up the inspector general’s report during the rally, and blasted a pair of FBI lovers over infidelity.
‘What a scam this whole thing is. How guilty is she?’ Trump asked the crowd, referencing Clinton as they chanted ‘Lock her up!’
He also told the crowd that the US-Mexico border would ‘just as tough’ hours after he signed an executive order that made a U-turn on separating children from their parents at the border
‘With Peter Strzok and his lover, Lisa Page. I don’t think their wife and husband are too happy about that, what do you think? I don’t think so,’ Trump said, although he didn’t mention any of the well-known past infidelity in his own marriages.
‘They wanted her to be innocent. With me nothing,’ Trump then said as he turned is attack onto investigators.
‘They wanted to put us in trouble and it’s not working too well I’ll tell you that. It’s disgusting. It’s called the phony witch hunt,’ he continued.
Then Trump brought back Clinton’s campaign gaffe calling his supporters ‘deplorables’ while he praised his own wealth.
‘They always call the other side, and they do this sometime, “the elite”. The elite! Why are they elite? I have a much better apartment than they do,’ Trump ranted.
‘I’m smarter than they are. I’m richer than they are. I became president and they didn’t.’
‘And I’m representing the greatest, smartest most loyal, best people on earth: the deplorables! Remember that? The deplorables!’
Trump riled up the crowd throughout the rally, inspiring them to chant ‘CNN sucks!’
The rally comes just hours after Trump signed an executive order ending family separation at the border.
In an abrupt U-turn on the divisive policy put into place by his own administration, Trump directed the Department of Homeland Security to detain families together so long as children are not put into danger.
‘I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of families being separated,’ Trump said on Wednesday.
Trump indicated that lobbying from his daughter Ivanka, who showed him pictures of the caged and kenneled children, and wife Melania had caused him to have a change in position.
Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, discussed the controversial separation issue while warming up the crowd in Duluth.
Lara condemned the media for only talking about the horrific images of children being torn apart from their partners, rather than Trump’s summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
‘It was just last week that we saw history happen. Donald Trump is the first president to ever meet with the leader of North Korea,’ she said.
‘They said that by talking with Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump was going to start World War III.’
Wednesday night’s rally marks the first that Trump held at a state that was won by Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election
Trump also tried to give a boost to Pete Stauber (pictured), the Republican candidate for the US House in Minnesota’s 8th District
‘And yet here we are on the cusp of a de-nuclearized Korean peninsula. They won’t try and stop a loser but they will try and stop a winner,’ she added, despite the fact that many have noted Kim got a summit he sought without making tangible concessions.’
Lara went on to call the summit ‘historic’ and vented her frustrations that the media had stopped covering the week-old meeting.
‘What is the only thing you hear if you turn on the television today or open the newspaper today?’ she asked the crowd.
‘You hear about people coming into our country illegally, breaking our laws and paying the consequences for it right?’ she said sarcastically.
Lara blamed the media for making people ‘hysterical’ about the issue, which saw more than 2,000 children being separated from their parents in the last two months.
She also erroneously claimed that immigrant children have been separated from their families ‘for years and years and years’.
‘Where was the uproar? Where were the Democrats calling him out to do something to change it?’ she asked, referring to President Barack Obama.
The rally comes just hours after Trump signed an executive order ending family separation at the border
Some of Trump’s fans cheer, at one point chanting ‘USA! USA!’ during the rally on Wednesday
‘Sort of makes you wonder what the heck is going on out there doesn’t it’, she continued. ‘The Democrats are desperate.’
The Obama administration did detain families together in an attempt to deter future migrants back in 2014, but the courts soon intervened.
Jeh Johnson, Obama’s former homeland security secretary, said he never separated a child from their parent during his three years in the position.
‘In three years on my watch, we probably deported or returned or repatriated about a million people to enforce border security,’ Johnson said on MSNBC last week.
‘One of the things I could not do is separate a child from his or her mother, or literally pull a mother from his or her arms. I just couldn’t do it.’
A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security revealed last week that Trump’s administration separated 1,995 children from 1,940 adults from April 19 to May 31.