Trump Ridiculed For Rant About Sharks & Batteries During His Las Vegas Campaign Event

Former President Donald Trump is facing ridicule for an odd rant he made about sharks and batteries during his campaign rally in Las Vegas on Sunday.

“So – so we have a country that’s in trouble,” he stated. “We’re going to end the mandate on electric one day. They want to make all boats too. I went to a boat company in South Carolina. The boat – I said, ‘How is it?’ [the boat manufacturer] said, ‘It’s a problem, sir. They want us to make all electric boats.’ These are boats that are from 16 to 35 or so feet. Fishing boats, leisure boats. Beautiful company in South Carolina. Beautiful. Guy’s Been doing it for 50 years. He sells hundreds of boats every couple of months. I mean, really fantastic guy.”

“And they use the Mercury engines and different engines in the back,” he stated. “No problem. They want to take that out. They want to make it all electric. He said, ‘The problem is the boat is so heavy it can’t float.’ I said, ‘That sounds like a problem.'”

“He said, ‘Also, it can’t go fast because of the weight,’ and they want to now have a 50 mile or a 70 mile radius,” Trump continued. “You have to go out 70 miles before you can really start the boat up, and you go out at two knots. That’s essentially almost like two miles an hour. I say, ‘How long does it take you to get out there?’ ‘Many hours. And then you’re allowed to go around for ten minutes, but you have to come back because the batteries only last for a very short period of time.’ So I said, ‘Let me ask you a question.’ And he said, ‘Nobody ever asked this question.’ And it must be ’cause of MIT. My relationship to MIT. Very smart. He goes. I say, ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight? And you’re in the boat, and you have this tremendously powerful battery, and the battery is now underwater, and there’s a shark that’s approximately ten yards over there?'” 

“‘Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted? Or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted?’ Trump said. [The man responded,] ‘You know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.’ I said, ‘I think it’s a good question. I think there’s a lot of electric current coming through that water.’ But you know what I’d do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted. I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark!”

Trump is known for having a fear of sharks.

In response to his remarks at this rally, people on X mocked the former president and raised questions about his mental fitness.

“It’s 110°, and you’re going to stand there and listen to this incoherent rambling,” the user @kimmasters wrote in an X post. “And what is it with this guy and sharks?”

“Holy [sh–] this old dude is bats— crazy,” the user known as @Rene_gadeCowboy mentioned in a post.

“There was a time in this country when misspelling the word potato would get you disqualified from running for President,” the user named @birdingdude stated in a post. “This is how far we have fallen.”

After his New Jersey campaign rally on May 11, Trump was also slammed by X users for praising Hannibal Lecter, the fictional serial killer from the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, while declaring that migrants are being released from “insane asylums” into America.

The former president argued that “the mental institution population is down because they’re taking people from insane asylums [in foreign countries] and from mental institutions” and sending them to America.

Trump also provoked backlash following an interview with political analyst Jon Delano on KDKA-TV of Pittsburgh in which he hinted he would back restrictions on birth control access. 

These remarks have inspired a harsh response from the Biden-Harris campaign and women’s rights advocates.