Donald Trump has claimed that Barack Obama and the US are loathed around the world, driving countries such as the Philippines into the arms of its adversaries.
“The world hates our president,” Trump said Friday at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
“The world hates us. You saw what happened with the Philippines after years and years and years; they’re now looking to Russia and China, because they don’t feel good about the weak America.”
Obama cancelled a meeting with Rodrigo Duterte last month after the Philippines’ controversial new president appeared to call him a “ son of a whore”.
On Thursday Duterte declared “America has lost” and said it was China, the Philippines and Russia against the world. But in Manila on Friday, Duterte said he would not sever ties and it was in his country’s best interests to remain with the US.
The remarks from the Republican presidential nominee on Friday came after comments he made in North Carolina about first lady Michelle Obama, criticizing the first lady for campaigning on behalf of
Hillary Clinton.
On Friday night, after Johnstown, Trump held a second event in suburban Pennsylvania as he attempts to become the first Republican to win the state since 1988.
With several battleground states like Colorado and Virginia safely in the Democratic column, Trump needs to win the Keystone State to have any chance of besting Clinton in November.
However, the Democratic nominee currently has a lead of over six points, according to the Real Clear Politics polling aggregate.
Speaking in Newtown, Pennsylvania, in an overheated gym with astroturf carpeting, Trump, who has long polled strongly in traditionally Democratic areas of western Pennsylvania, pledged to put miners back to work in a white collar area that is hundreds of miles from the state’s remaining coal mines.
Although he has been making baseless claims that the election will be rigged due to voter fraud, Trump did not bring up that argument on the campaign trail on Friday. However, it is registering with some of his supporters.
Walter McHugh, a student at Drexel University who was wearing a “Make America Swole Again” T-shirt, featuring a cartoon Trump lifting weights, said: “I think [elections] have been rigged for a long time.”
He thought there would be fraud in November saying “there will be more votes than voters” while also believing polls were biased.
Trump again compared his campaign to the UK referendum to pull out of the EU, saying it would be like “Brexit times five”.
The Republican nominee will give what has been billed as a major policy speech in Gettysburg on Saturday where he will lay out his “closing argument” for voters.
A senior Trump aide defined the choice on a conference call Friday night as asking the question: “Do we want a country that has a fundamental loyalty to working people or a country with a fundamental loyalty to international capital.”
Another senior Trump aide compared the speech to Newt Gingrich’s 1994 Contract with America and contrasted it to the Clinton campaign, which the aide said “are going to sit on their lead, they are going run out the clock”.
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