‘You’re Extremely Funny:’ Laura Ingraham Asks Trump, ‘How Might You Showcase Your Sense of Humor During This Campaign?’

Fox News host Laura Ingraham gushed over former President Donald Trump’s comedy skills on Wednesday and asked him how he might “showcase” his “sense of humor during this campaign.”

During Tuesday’s Fox News town hall, in a moment unaired until Wednesday evening, Ingraham told Trump:

You’re extremely funny. I mean, you have a fantastic sense of humor. People who, you know, don’t know you personally sometimes don’t see that because you are facing very serious challenges and a very serious election. How might you showcase your sense of humor during this campaign for, you know, those people who might not be all that into politics?

Trump replied, “I don’t think I want to be a comedian,” as the audience laughed.

He continued:

We have a country that’s dying. We have a country that’s a failing nation. I say it in my speeches, it’s a failing nation. We have a nation in decline. We are a nation in decline. I just don’t think it’s a subject that we’re smiling too much about. When I see 18 million – by the time he leaves, I think that’s going to be the number – 18 million people coming in from places unknown, we have no idea who they are, but they are terrorists. We’re going to have massive terrorism. We’re going to have a big problem with terrorists. We’re gonna have a lot of problems.

Trump then pointed off-camera and said:

You have a great family right there, the Heinz family sitting in the front row. They lost their daughter to an illegal alien that came in, and we threw him out and he was gone, and he came back in, just came back in, and their daughter was killed by an illegal immigrant that came in during the Biden administration. So sad.

So I just don’t see that much humor in what we’re doing. This is a very serious charge and this is a very serious thing I’m doing, and I don’t want to be– you know, if I start talking with a smile, they’ll say, “He smiled,” because the fake news is just terrible. “He smiled, what was he smiling about.”

He concluded, “I don’t really want to smile. I want to smile when we complete the task and make America great again.”

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