A video clip of a baby crying during a speech by Donald Trump in Iowa has gone viral.
Trump was making a speech in Clive, Iowa, during the caucuses in the Hawkeye State. As he outlined some of the issues key to his campaign, security and immigration, a young child began wailing.
“We did a job like frankly nobody has done in a long, long time,” the former president said as wails could be heard in the crowd. “We didn’t have terrorism. We didn’t have people pouring into our country. We didn’t have an invasion where people were pouring in and coming in from prisons all over the world, from mental institutions and insane asylums all over the world.”
The clip from January 15 gained over 400,000 views after it was posted to X, formerly Twitter, and led to mockery from some anti-Trump accounts.
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“The baby is trying to save the Republican Party,” one Democrat voter joked.
Another person said: “That baby is all of us listening to him.”
Others referenced the time in 2016 when Trump asked a woman with a crying baby to leave an event he was speaking at in Ashburn, Virginia.
Footage shows him saying: “Don’t worry about that baby, I love babies… I hear that baby crying, I like it.” He told the woman holding the child not to worry about the situation.
Trump then caused laughter later on in the speech when he paused and said “actually I was only kidding, you can get the baby out of here.”
He added: “I think she believed me that I love having a baby crying while I am speaking.”
The latest clip of the crying child comes amid a number of viral social media videos making unsubstantiated claims about the former president.
Footage of Trump allegedly dragging his leg behind him as he delivered pizza to firefighters in Waukee, Iowa, went viral.
He was in good spirits in the clip on X and joked with the fire crew, but the footage still led to speculation on his health from anti-Trump accounts.
The Republican presidential candidate has said publicly he is in good health.
Newsweek has approached a Trump spokesperson for comment.
Trump won a landslide victory in the Iowa caucuses on Monday, securing over 50 percent of the vote. His nearest rival Ron DeSantis took 21 percent and Nikki Haley 19 percent.
The victory was bigger than that of George W. Bush in 2000 when the eventual 43rd president took home 41 percent of the vote.
Despite his opponents questioning his capabilities, Trump told Fox News he felt “invigorated” after his victory.
Haley, optimistic of building momentum in a potentially more favorable upcoming New Hampshire vote, suggested Trump was too old to be running. Similar criticism is leveled at incumbent President Joe Biden, the likely opponent for any victorious Republican.
“Underestimate me because that’s always fun,” she said. “Do you want more of the same, or do you want a new generation of conservative leadership? It’s both Donald Trump and Joe Biden…”
She added: “Both are consumed by the past. America deserves better.”
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