Tim Walz mocks Trump for insisting 11 times that he’s not weird

On Thursday, Tim Walz mocked his political opponent Donald Trump for trying to distance himself from the “outsider” label that has attached itself to him and his running mate JD Vance.

“There’s a saying in politics: If you explain yourself, you lose. Last night, Donald Trump explained 11 times that he wasn’t weird,” Walz said of the Republican presidential nominee’s comments during Wednesday night’s Fox News town hall with Sean Hannity.

“We’re not weird. We’re different things, maybe, but we’re not weird,” former President Trump told Hannity.

Instead, he insisted that Walz is “weird” for the sake of calling him “weird.”

“He gets on stage, there’s something wrong with that guy and he calls me ‘weird,’” Trump said Wednesday night. “And then the fake news media picks it up. That was the word of the day: ‘Weird. Weird. Weird.’ Everybody was saying that, but we’re not weird guys; we’re very solid people who want to make our country great again. It’s very simple.”

In his speech Thursday, Walz also referenced other recent non-sequitur tangents from Trump, including the now-infamous “sharks, batteries and boats” speech, which the 78-year-old candidate has repeated several times.

The Democratic vice presidential candidate also criticized the Republican Party’s anti-abortion and anti-IVF platform. “It’s weird to be obsessed with people’s personal lives. It’s weird to be obsessed with people’s health care options,” he said.

Last month, Trump accused Kamala Harris’s campaign of working with news networks to create the term.

“they are “That’s weird,” he told a crowd in Montana in August. “You know what they do? They work with the press to find the slogan… it’s just unbelievable, you know, it’s not a word that’s used a lot in politics, you know, it’s a terrible thing that they can do this.”

As Walz said Thursday: “I think we’re making him a little nervous.”