President Donald Trump made another verbal detour on Sunday to talk about a candidate’s body ― and this time, it wasn’t Sen. Jon Husted’s (R-Ohio) ass.
Instead, he decided it was time to discuss Rep. Ashley Hinson’s (R-Iowa) entire body, even though she had apparently asked him not to.
“I shouldn’t say this. It’s inappropriate,” Trump said at a rally in Dubuque for Hinson, who is running for Senate, and other Iowa Republicans. “Ashley said, ‘Please, sir, don’t do this.’”
He did it anyway.
“She was a little bit heavier, OK? She was,” the president said as the audience laughed. “She knew the weight that was on her, really, literally, the weight. And she knew the importance of what she was doing. And she went out the old-fashioned way, too. Not with, you know, give me a shot.”
He mimed an injection, likely a reference to certain drugs used for weight loss.
At that moment, he was interrupted by a protester.
“They always do it right in the middle of my punchline,” he complained.
The crowd chanted “USA” as the protester was removed, and the president eventually got to his “punchline.”
“She went on a regimen. She put herself in shape. She’s in perfect shape,” Trump said. “She was great the other way, but she put herself in shape, and she did that for you.”
Trump admitted he “put on a couple of pounds” and wondered how she did it.
The president has, in recent weeks, been focusing on candidates’ bodies, usually men and often very specifically Husted, saying he has “a great ass, very powerful ass.”