Former President Trump said he would not pay a company that rented campaign equipment after the microphone went silent for about 20 minutes at a rally in Detroit.
While speaking about his tariff policy at an event last Friday, President Trump tried to call it “the most beautiful word in the dictionary” before the microphone was turned off. Someone handed the former president another microphone, but it didn’t work either.
The crowd cheered during interludes as Trump moved around the stage, occasionally chanting and waiting for the rally to resume.
After the microphone started working again, Trump said, “Now I will not pay for this stupid company that rented us this crap.”
“I’m not going to pay my bills and you’re going to hear stories about Trump not paying his contractors bills. No, don’t pay to do that,” he said. “It’s terrible.”
He later added, “If it happens again, I will sue that company.” “We are going to sue those people.”
Trump has previously pledged not to pay the company if there are technical problems during his rallies, including a teleprompter problem in Las Vegas in June.
Hundreds of contractors who previously worked for Trump said ahead of the 2016 election that he had not paid them in years.
President Trump continued his speech by laying out his economic agenda, saying his administration would cut corporate taxes, energy costs and regulations if products were made in the United States and employed American workers. He said if companies don’t make their products here, they will have to pay “draconian” tariffs.
Trump insisted he was simply ‘pro-worker’ and not a ‘protectionist’ as some say.
He argued that broad tariffs on many products would create a “manufacturing boom” if elected, despite criticism that costs would be passed on to consumers and worsen inflation.
