Trump rambles about suicide, sharks and Jan. 6 ‘warriors’ in Las Vegas

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News

10 June 2024 at 2:59 pm·2-min read

LAS VEGAS — Former President Trump told a sprawling crowd of followers they’d be better off killing themselves than voting for Biden in the November election and mused about being attacked by sharks in a rambling weekend speech in scorching Las Vegas.

Tens of thousands of loyal supporters cheered Saturday as Trump joked that he only really cares about winning their votes in his White House rematch against President Biden.

“I don’t care about you, I just want your vote,” Trump told rally-goers while complaining about “sweating like a dog” in 100 degree-plus sun to plead for their support.

He name checked a Trump super-fan who boasts of attending more than 200 of Trump’s MAGA rallies.

“It’s suicide rather than Biden, right?” he asked to cheers of approval.

With his teleprompter going on the fritz in the desert heat, Trump went on a head-scratching extended side rant about whether it would be better to getter eaten by sharks or die from electrocution if you happen to wind up on a battery-powered boat that starts to sink.

“You have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark over there,” Trump said, noting that “there have been a lot of shark attacks lately.”

“Do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking .. or do I jump over by the shark?” Trump mused. “I’ll take electrocution every single time.”

Trump is hoping to flip Nevada and neighboring Arizona back into his column after Biden narrowly won both states in 2020 en route to a relatively solid 306-232 electoral college victory.

Even though advisers tell him to stick to effective attack lines on the border and inflation, Trump went off script again to praise the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as a righteous protest against what he calls a “rigged election” that Biden won.

“They were warriors but more than anything else they are victims,” said Trump, who vows to pardon the hundreds of extremists convicted of taking part in the attack. “All they were doing was protesting a rigged election. What a setup that was.”

Despite Trump’s puzzling rhetoric, the presidential race remains virtually tied nationally with Trump holding a slim lead among all registered voters while Biden narrowly leads among those likely to go to the polls in November.

Trump is said to lead in most battleground states, particularly those in the Sun Belt like Nevada, Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina.

Biden supporters note the president can likely win reelection by holding only the Rust Belt so-called #BlueWall states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

HuffPost
CNN Data Reporter 'Speechless' By New Donald Trump-Joe Biden Poll: 'Holy Cow, Folks!'
Harry Enten said it could point to "a historic moment" in American politics.
The Telegraph
Tony Blair’s bizarre statement on trans rights sums up the madness of our times
Let’s try doing a little thought experiment. Imagine that, 20 years ago, you bumped your head and slipped into a coma – and have only now, in June 2024, regained consciousness. Naturally, you’re eager to check the news and find out what’s going on in the world. So, after a member of your family has lent you his or her iPad – and explained to you what it is and how to use it – you rush to visit The Telegraph website. And, at the top of the homepage, the very first headline you see reads as follow
HuffPost
Anthony Fauci Memoir Recalls His Last Conversation With Donald Trump: ‘That F**ker Biden’
The then-president also reportedly made a bold prediction that didn't come true.
The Telegraph
David Cameron is a disgrace to Britain
Why would anybody trust the Conservative Party to make the big decisions about the future of Britain, when they can’t even agree on what to do about Nigel Farage?
The Telegraph
China is almost ready for its war with the West
While Russian forces continued their thrust towards Kharkiv over the weekend, world leaders descended on the Swiss resort of Bürgenstock in attempts to work out what a peace deal should look like. Vladimir Putin, predictably, had no interest in attending, but the absence of another world leader was more significant. Even as the US gears up to pivot its military attention to the Indo-Pacific to confront an increasingly assertive China, Xi Jinping chose not to attend.
The Telegraph
Angela Rayner is a threat to European security
It has become trite to say that the world is now more dangerous than it has been since the end of the Cold War – or perhaps even the end of the Second World War. Trite but true.
The Telegraph
Cameron, not Farage, destroyed the Conservatives
David Cameron is back from outer space to tell us Nigel Farage wants to destroy the Conservative Party, that he’s playing “dog-whistle” politics and, we can infer, the Tories ought to run a mile from him. Thus the battle lines of the next leadership contest are drawn. Early advantage goes to elites who will say the party wandered too far to the Right – a view endorsed by a billion deadly dull podcasts made by people who think the Today programme is insufficiently subjective.
Reuters
'Normal' Nigel Farage resonates with UK seaside voters
CLACTON-ON-SEA, England (Reuters) - Nigel Farage's brand of politics has found a home in the English seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea, where voters described the right-wing party leader as a straight talker who, unlike other candidates, understands their problems and wants to solve them. Britain's July 4 election will be Farage's eighth attempt to win a seat in parliament after the anti-EU, anti-immigration campaigner entered the race proclaiming his aim to supplant the ruling Conservatives as the main party of the right. Farage is an expensively educated former financial trader.
PA Media: UK News
Farage claims Reform UK has been ‘stitched up’ over candidate vetting
Nigel Farage said Reform had paid ‘a large sum of money’ to a firm to scrutinise its candidates but has been let down.
The Telegraph
Britain shouldn’t wave the nuclear white flag. We could flatten Russia
As Sir Keir Starmer and his Labour party move ever faster towards No 10, aided by the Conservative party’s penchant to fall on its sword with monotonous regularity, we will soon be forced to confront the nuclear-warhead-sized elephant in the room. Promises to grow the economy are all well and good, but the security of the country is of paramount importance, especially when our Russian enemy has made its hatred for us clear.
PA Media: UK News
Count Binface promises national service for former prime ministers in manifesto
The election candidate for the North Yorkshire seat releases his manifesto.
HuffPost
Jon Stewart Busts 'Right-Wing Motherf**kers' Like Trump Over 1 Huge Lie
The "Daily Show" host tore into conservatives over a major hypocrisy on a key talking point.
The Daily Beast
One-Two Punch From the Skies Is a Massive Blow to Putin
Ukraine’s military has spent the last two years chronically short of planes. Its prewar stocks were already small in number and mostly dated from the Soviet era. When NATO and other countries sent help, they focused on either sending the same older models or keeping existing aircraft in the air through maintenance and spare parts. Russia, meanwhile, has a larger and often more advanced air force.However, new planes are on the way to help Ukraine. For nearly a year, countries like the Netherlands
HuffPost UK
Kay Burley Skewers Grant Shapps By Claiming His 'Political Dreams Are Over'
"In all seriousness, what will you do after the election? You have got a pilot's licence haven't you?"
The Telegraph
Putin sacks four deputy defence ministers and appoints relative
Vladimir Putin has sacked four deputy defence ministers and appointed one of his relatives to the role as he carries out a sweeping purge of officials in charge during the botched invasion of Ukraine.
Evening Standard
General Election London: Find out who will be your MP from new interactive map of over 40 seats
Millions of voters across London will go to the polls on July 4 to elect the new Government. The Standard is looking at how seats could change hands across the capital
The Telegraph
Britain is already at war, and nobody wants to admit it
There are fewer than three weeks to go until polling day and, amid all the desperate campaigning and counter-campaigning, there is a dog that hasn’t barked – even though it is perhaps the most vital of all for our long-term survival.
The Telegraph
The Right should fear Rachel Reeves more than Keir Starmer
In one of the most famous psychological experiments of the past 30 years, Harvard-educated researchers Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons asked a group of young people, three in black T-shirts, three in white, to pass a basketball around a confined space.
Yahoo Finance UK
What Labour and the Tories are offering pensioners in their manifestos
The last week has seen a flurry of election manifestos outlining what the various parties will do should they win on 4 July.
PA Media: UK News
Fact check: Projected result for Lee Anderson comes from ‘user-defined’ data
A screenshot shared by the Ashfield candidate was created with an online tool likely using favourable data rather than a specific poll in his area.

Latest stories