Harris mocks Trump with media advisory promoting his speech

With former President Trump set to speak to reporters at a press conference in New Jersey on Thursday afternoon, Vice President Harris’s campaign released a media advisory mocking him for being set to “hold another public meltdown” and “deliver another self-obsessed rant.”

“Not so fresh off [his National Association of Black Journalists interview], Florida, and Twitter glitches, Donald Trump intends to deliver another self-obsessed rant full of his own personal grievances to distract from his toxic Project 2025 agenda, unpopular running mate, and increasing detachment from the reality of the voters who will decide this election,” the campaign said. 

In the style of a mock press release, the campaign called Trump the “loser of the 2020 election by 7 million,” and listed the location of the appearance as “not a battleground state.”

Last week, Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), crisscrossed the nation and visited six battleground states — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Georgia and Nevada. Harris’s campaign mocked Trump for not holding a single rally or visiting any of the swing states in more than a week.

“It’s been 9 days since Donald Trump held a swing state event,” the campaign released in a statement Monday. “Vice President Harris is the only candidate out on the campaign trail in swing states fighting to win this election. Ok by us!” 

Thursday’s press release also called out Trump’s recent statements asserting that the Harris campaign produced artificial intelligence-generated photos of events to show large crowds at campaign rallies. 

“These remarks will not be artificial intelligence, but they certainly will lack intelligence,” the release said of Trump’s scheduled press conference. 

Since Harris has taken over the Democratic nomination for president, her campaign has forcefully poked fun at and mocked Trump for his public comments as well as statements made by his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio). 

Walz rose to prominence during Harris’s vice presidential search for calling Vance and other Republicans “weird,” a message that resonated with many Democratic voters. 

On Tuesday, after Trump spoke with Elon Musk live on the social platform X, Harris’s team released a statement saying “Trump’s entire campaign is in service of people like Elon Musk and himself — self obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024.” 

They have also released statements attacking Trump’s press conference last week and appearance in front of the National Association of Black Journalists where Trump said that Harris had only decided to become Black in recent years. 

“Donald Trump took a break from taking a break to put on some pants and host a press conference public meltdown,” the Harris campaign wrote in an official release on Aug. 8.

“The facts were hard to track and harder to find in Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago meltdown this afternoon. He lied. He attacked the media. He made excuses for why he’s off the campaign trail. We’re here to help because his staff clearly isn’t.” 

That release was titled “Donald Trump’s Very Good, Very Normal Press Conference,” and the campaign added it was a “split screen: Joy and Freedom vs Whatever the Hell That Was.”

A Trump campaign spokesperson responded to the Harris campaign’s statement, writing, “KamalaHQ is just big mad they are playing with Play Doh while we’re playing chess.”

The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign for further comment.