President Donald Trump isn’t backing down after using an ableist slur to describe Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) over the Thanksgiving holiday.
Trump deemed the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee “seriously retarded” in a rambling post on his Truth Social platform Thursday, while also taking aim at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and former President Joe Biden.
Speaking to reporters on Air Force One late Sunday, the president said he “absolutely” stood by his comments. Regarding Walz, he noted, “I think there’s something wrong with him.”
“Anybody that would do what he did, anybody that would allow those people into his state and pay billions of dollars out to Somalia,” he said, as seen in video shared by Mediaite and other outlets. “We give billions of dollars to Somalia. It’s not even a country because it doesn’t function like a country. It’s got a name but it doesn’t function like a country.”
He then added, “Yeah, there’s something wrong with Walz.”
