‘6 People Were Sent To The Hospital’: CNN’s Abby Phillip Roasts Sweltering Trump Rally — Speech ‘Veered Wildly’ In The Heat

CNN anchor Abby Phillip roasted former President Donald Trump’s sweltering Las Vegas rally — and the “wildly” veering speech Trump delivered to those who braved the heat.

Trump spoke to a crowd of supporters at a rally in Las Vegas Sunday amid 110-degree temperatures that saw dozens seek medical attention, during which he went on several attention-getting rants. Among them was a chunk joking about the heat’s toll.

On Monday night’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Phillip opened the show with a brief commentary ripping the rally, but let a supercut of Trump’s statements do most of the talking:

ABBY PHILLIP: The Donald Trump, his rally diehards. That’s tonight on NewsNight.

Good evening. I’m Abby Phillip in New York.

Another American first, the convicted former president who is now running to oversee the country again just met with his probation officer…

But, first, a play by play of what Donald Trump said in Las Vegas. Let’s set the scene for you. The heat spiraled to 100 degrees, six people were sent to the hospital. Two dozen others were treated at the scene. Call it the heat or Donald Trump feeling hot under the collar, but the content of this rally veered wildly into topic after topic. Now, some that actually might matter to you, the voter, and others that matter to Donald Trump and maybe no one else.

So, here is an incomplete sampling of what you heard if you happened to have stood in that rally and sweated through all of it, starting with a joke about voters.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: I don’t want anybody going on me. We need every voter. I don’t care about you. I just want your vote. I don’t care.

He’s a deranged, dumb guy. He’s a dumb son of a bitch.

He’s a corrupt, very dumb person. He’s a low I.Q. individual.

There’s just something missing, and there always has been.

If this guy just, you know, goes to the beach all the time, somebody thinks he looks good in a bathing suit. I don’t think so. And he has that little chair that weighs about like seven ounces. It’s meant so children can lift it and very old people can lift it. And you know what? He’s not old. He’s incompetent.

It’s weak. It’s ineffective. It’s bullshit what he signed.

They’re totally destroying our black population. They’re totally destroying our Hispanic population.

I pay all this money to teleprompter people. And I’d say 20 percent of the time they don’t work. I don’t pay contractors that do a shitty job, and that’s a shitty job. That’s a shitty job. You can’t read a word.

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’s now underwater, and there’s a shark that’s approximately ten yards over there? By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately. Do you notice that?

Those J6 warriors, they were warriors, but they were really more than anything else. They’re victims of what happened. All they were doing is protesting a rigged election. That’s what they were doing. And then the police say, go in, go in, go in.

What a setup that was. What a horrible, horrible thing. And, you know, that blows two ways.

If we win Nevada, we win the whole thing. I hope the military revolts at the voting booth and just says, we’re not going to take it. He should take a drug test because I’m willing to take one.

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Watch above via CNN NewsNight.

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