WATCH: 4 Bonkers Moments From Trump’s Georgia Speech

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President Donald Trump’s speech in Georgia on Wednesday was intended to boost his new Trump Accounts for kids, but came with a spate of bizarre moments on communism, a prominent Democrat, the global oil supply — and one mocking audience member.

The two-time president opened his address at Wheeler High School in Marietta, just north of Atlanta, with talk about a potential third term.

“I am here to announce my candidacy,” Trump proclaimed before quickly adding, “I’m only kidding, I’m only kidding.”

The 80-year-old commander in chief then went on to beat the drum on communism, oddly connecting it to … Mount Rushmore.

Read on below for that moment and more:

1. Mount Rushmore in Danger

Trump began talking about capitalism and accused the “radical left” of “actively trying to destroy our children’s future with the disaster known as communism.” He then accused “communists” of wanting to remove the decades-old monument:

It’s communism. This isn’t social Democrats. These are communists by other name, right? As I said in my recent address at Mount Rushmore recently, I don’t know if anybody saw it, it’s such a beautiful place. The communists want to take it down. They have tried take Mount Rushmore down. They want to blow it up. They want to take it down.

2. ‘Pinky Herman’

Trump apparently tried to anoint Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) with a new nickname reminiscent of a children’s TV character of yesteryear, but appeared to bungle the effort:

Georgia is a state that believes in common sense, and yet, your terrible Senator Jon Ossoff, he’s terrible. And the Democrats, in Congress, are voting with the communists every single time. They are afraid of the communists you look at it. Now, I, I fought Ossoff before as you know, and we won, we had a great success against this guy. He reminds me of Pinky Herman. Did you ever see Pinky Herman?

Trump was most likely referring to Pee-wee Herman, the character immortalized by the late Paul Reubens.

3. Where the Streets Have ‘Hormoon’ Name

Turning to Iran, the president appeared to suggest America didn’t need the critical global economic chokepoint — through which 20% of the world’s oil supply travels — but mangled the name:

You combine us and Venezuela. We have about 62% of the world’s oil market. So we don’t need straits. We don’t need anything. We don’t need the Hormoon Street. But we do it because we have to do it, because we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.

4. And Then There’s This Guy

Trump, fresh from Dover Air Force Base where he attended the dignified transfer of four soldiers killed in the Iran war, called the ongoing conflict a “skirmish” as an audience member in a suit and tie appeared to have a little fun at the president’s expense, doing his own take of the president’s mannerisms.

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