“Trump would rather be electrocuted than eaten by sharks. Remember, remember?” the president asked a crowd at a campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan.
“Poor Donald, it’s Shark Week this week so you won’t be able to watch TV.”
The president, who has faced calls in recent weeks to prove whether he can continue to lead the country or drop out of the 2024 race, made the comments amid a string of comments mocking Trump’s “mumbles”, including a reference to a fictional cannibal, Hannibal Lecter.
Sharks are reportedly one of Trump’s fears; Stormy Daniels, whose alleged affair with the former president was at the center of his money-laundering case, told InTouch in 2011 that the former president recalled watching the Discovery programming block and being “obsessed” with and “terrified” of sharks.
“He said, ‘I’m going to donate to all these charities and I’m not going to donate to any charity that helps sharks. I hope they all die,'” Daniels said of Trump, who has denied having affairs with porn stars.
“He seemed obsessed. He seemed fixated. It was really weird, you know.”
Trump’s latest shark comment comes as his cognitive abilities have been called into question after reports he “couldn’t gather his thoughts” during a June meeting with CEOs, publicly misstated a former doctor and questioned what happens to electric planes “when the sun isn’t shining.”
