Donald Trump’s ‘pants’ comment during Bronx rally mocked

Donald Trump has been mocked for talking about how he manages to put on his pants in the morning, during a campaign rally speech to thousands of supporters.

Trump, the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, spoke to MAGA-hatted fans in New York’s South Bronx Thursday evening to drum up support in the traditionally Democrat-voting borough ahead of November’s presidential election.

And the 77-year-old’s address made quite an impression. “A lot of people say to me today—the toughest business people, people that you know about—’Could I ask you a question? How do you do it?’ I say, ‘Do what?’ ‘How do you get up in the morning and put your pants on? Why do you put the pants on?’,” he told supporters. “I’ll explain it to you someday. ‘How do you do it? How do you get up? How do you do it?'”

Steven Cheung, spokesperson for Trump, told Newsweek in an email after the event that 25,000 people turned up to listen to the former president in Crotona Park. Newsweek could not independently verify that number.

But for many, the speech would be remembered for all the wrong reasons. Art Candee wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “Does anyone … anyone at all … think that people ask Trump how he puts his pants on?”

Harry Sisson, a Democrat content creator, wrote: “Donald Trump is now bragging about … putting his pants on? Uh … what? Trump is spewing utter nonsense. I think it might be time for sleepy Donald to head off to bed for the evening. He’s not well!”

In another post, he added: “Yesterday at his rally in the Bronx, Donald Trump bragged about putting on his pants in the morning, he was stumbling over his words, he didn’t put forward policy, and he was ranting incoherently. And THIS is the guy Republicans want running the country? Embarrassing.”

Another user wrote: “I can’t believe this is the Republican nominee. We failed.”

The video was also shared by the Biden-Harris campaign and the anti-Trump Republican group, Republicans Against Trump.

Newsweek contacted a representative for Trump by email to comment on this story.

Meanwhile it is not the first time Trump has made the claim. In a January rally in Mason City, Iowa, he told supporters a similar anecdote and said he didn’t “want to think about it” because if he thought about it too much he might not want to do it.

Elsewhere Trump said in his rally that he would support New York’s Democratic leaders if he is elected as president.

“As soon as I get back into the Oval Office, I am going to pick up the phone and I’m going to call your mayor and your governor, and I’m going to say, ‘this is President Trump and I want to come back and help,'” said Trump, who was a lifelong New Yorker until he officially transferred his residency to Palm Beach, Florida, in 2019.

“You have a Democrat governor, you have a Democrat mayor and we are going to work with them, and we are going to get this state and this city at a level that it’s never seen before,” he said.