Donald Trump’s niece responded to comments that her uncle is “weird” and “creepy” by agreeing, and in a scathing comment, doubling down on the rebuke of the Republican presidential nominee.
“By adding J.D. Vance to the Republican ticket, Donald has increased the level of creepy weirdness exponentially, and the Harris campaign and its allies are taking every opportunity to capitalize on it,” Mary Trump wrote in her newsletter. “And, like the most effective political attacks, it works in part because it’s true.”
The “weird” commentary on Vance has snowballed in light of Vance’s history of making odd statements and alleged internet searches for questionable dolphin content.
But for Mary Trump, that’s just the tip of iceberg when it comes to Vance’s weirdness.
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“It’s weird to worship a fascist game show host while pretending to be a Christian. It’s weird to complain that childless cat ladies are the real problem facing America; it’s weird to believe in 'menstrual surveillance.' It’s weird to attack people who don’t have kids just because they don’t have kids. It’s weird to have a fetish for weapons of mass death. It’s weird to get angry at Star Wars and Disney movies or hate c. It’s weird to hang out with Matt Gaetz,” Mary Trump fired off in her newsletter.
Her uncle, however, is an entirely different brand of weird, with an attack dog persona used to cover up a deep-seated insecurity.
“He is a weak, fragile man who is yes, deeply weird and deeply disturbed. He needs to be mocked mercilessly,” Mary Trump writes. “He told us recently, that the one thing he hates, probably more than anything else, is to be laughed at.”
As Republicans come under heavy criticism for lobbing racially coded and sexist remarks at Harris, for Democrats not to mock Trump would be a huge missed opportunity, says his niece.
“It isn't mean or impolite or in bad form to mock and laugh at or make fun of somebody who wants to destroy us,” Mary Trump writes. “We have to go full throttle because as we get closer to the election, we’re going to see the terms of the fight unfold and as bad as what they’ve been saying so far has been, it’s going to get worse.”
“We need to be ready to counter the danger with joy, the weirdness with mockery. And we need to keep laughing.”
