Videos of Trump's Gaffe-Filled Rally Go Viral

Videos showing former President Donald Trump slurring his speech and making puzzling pronouncements during a recent rally in Georgia are circulating on social media.

Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee for this year's presidential election, mocked President Joe Biden's well-known stutter during a rally in Rome, Georgia, on Saturday night. The former president soon after received backlash for ridiculing the president over the speech impediment.

While Republicans often criticize Biden for his advanced age and ongoing history of making verbal gaffes during public appearances, the same line of attack has increasingly been used by Democrats against Trump, whose own recent speeches have seemingly provided ample material from which to draw upon.

By Monday, videos of Trump slurring his speech at multiple points and making bizarre statements during the same Georgia rally where he mocked Biden's stutter had been shared by many of the former president's critics on X, formerly Twitter.

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Former President Donald Trump on Saturday is pictured at a campaign rally in Rome, Georgia. Videos of Trump appearing to slur his speech and make strange statements at multiple points during the rally were circulated... Chip Somodevilla

"Mush-mouthed and gaffes galore," frequent Trump critic and former NBCUniversal executive Mike Sington wrote while sharing a nearly three-minute compilation of the ex-president's verbal mishaps.

"Brace yourselves as Trump mumbles and slurs repeatedly, and often makes no sense at all, during speech in Rome, Georgia," he added. "Compare this performance to President Biden's State of the Union address."

"Montage of 30 clips from the last two Trump rallies where he slurred and mispronounced words and names, rambled incoherently, and repeatedly got confused," posted former federal prosecutor Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief of liberal website MeidasTouch.

"Trump shorts out," journalist Aaron Rupar wrote while sharing a video of Trump slurring his speech as melodramatic music played toward the end of the Georgia rally.

Newsweek reached out for comment to Trump's office via email on Monday night.

Among the unusual statements made at the rally, Trump described a bizarre scenario involving Americans being confronted by "illegal immigrants knocking on their front door and saying I'm going to use your kitchen and I'm going to use your bedroom, and there's not a damn thing [you can do about it]."

Trump repeatedly claimed during the speech to have "purposely mixed names" during recent campaign stops—such as mistaking former President Barack Obama for Biden and ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for ex-South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.

The former president also said at one point that he was "Joe Biden's top and only political appointment." He claimed that "fentanyl and other forms of illegal drugs are easier to get than groceries" at another point.

During one particularly eyebrow-raising moment, Trump claimed that opinion polls were "rigged" against him before quickly backtracking when he apparently realized that he was leading Biden in recent polls.

"You know, the polls are all rigged," Trump said. "Of course, lately they haven't been rigged cause I'm winning by so much ... I don't wanna say ... Disregard that statement. I love the polls very much."

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