‘It Was Weird!’ Maggie Haberman And Kaitlan Collins Roast Trump Over Bizarre Rally Scene

New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman and CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins roasted ex-President Donald Trump over a bizarre rally scene that unfolded this week.

Trump has been widely mocked over a Monday event in Pennsylvania that went off the rails after two attendees suffered medical incidents — to which Trump responded by awkwardly swaying onstage to his own musical selections — for 40 minutes. Vice President Kamala Harris remarked “Hope he’s okay” and other critics seized on the incident as evidence of mental decline.

On Tuesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins described the “weird moment” and asked Haberman for her insight.

She agreed “It was weird,” and chalked it up to Trump’s “anxiety”:

COLLINS: I mean, what have you heard from sources about — shortly before we came on the air, last night, and we showed part of this, which was this town hall, a friendly town hall that Trump was doing, last night, where he only took a handful of questions.

And then, most of it looks more like this, where he was with the South Dakota governor, Kristi Noem. I mean, it was over half an hour that they were up there. He was requesting songs on little pieces of paper. His aides were tweeting about it in defense.

But it was this weird moment, where, I mean, we are three weeks out from a very close election, and.

HABERMAN: It was weird! I mean, I don’t know of another word to describe last night. It was weird. And he does weird things like this. And he usually does them in private, or he does them with aides, or he does them on the Mar-a-Lago patio, when he’s DJing on an iPad. This was a rare time that people were seeing this in public.

I think what happened was he got anxious, because people were getting sick, and it was delaying the event.

At the second Butler rally, people got sick twice, and you could see him get a little anxious, when it was taking a very long time to make sure that they were OK.

He went over at one point to talk to the Secret Service to ask if they could open the doors. The answer was no. So I think that he said, Let’s play the music. I know he said, Let’s play the music. So that people would start leaving. But then nobody left. And then, they were all sort of swaying along with him, and then he was feeding off what they were doing.

And you know this very well. The music thing is a big thing for him. It was how people would basically reset him in the White House.

COLLINS: Yes. Well, it’s also, he would blare music on his plane.

HABERMAN: Yes. Alone (ph).

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.