'Donald Trump gives up on speaking': Fox News correspondent blasts 'strange' MAGA town hall
Fox News national correspondent Bryan Llenas detailed his experience as a Donald Trump town hall attendee in Oaks, Pennsylvania Monday night, after the former president stopped speaking and "started playing music" instead.
Llenas wrote via X: "Well, this is a very strange Trump Town Hall in Pennsylvania. It turned on a dime after two Trump supporters passed out/fainted/needed medical attention in back to back episodes that paused the Q and A format for a while. The Q and A portion never restarted after four questions mostly on the economy."
He continued, "Trump talked for a little and decided instead to play his favorite music to the crowd. He’s standing on stage. We’ve listened to opera songs Ave Maria, Con Te Paritiro and now we are listening and watching James Brown and Pavarotti on video singing 'This is a Man’s World.' Trump urges people to vote and then plays the YMCA."
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Determined to keep the crowd going, the former president said, "No one is going home," according to Llenas.
"He now is playing 'Hallelujah,'" by Leonard Cohen, the right-wing network correspondent wrote.
"We’re still here and so is most of the crowd," Llenas continued. "A question has not been asked in more than a half hour. Now Trump is notably playing a music video of Sinead O’Connor’s 'Nothing Compares to you.' O’Connor’s estate asked Trump to stop playing her music at his rallies. She once called Trump a 'biblical devil'. Again, here we are."
After giving a play-by-play of the "impromptu concert," Llenas wrote: "I mean I don’t know what happened tonight other than two people needed medical attention and it became clear Trump didn’t think Q/A should continue. So he started playing some music and continued to play more music when the crowd didn’t seem to want to leave. So for about an hour there was an impromptu concert. Idk. Goodnight."
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Sarafina Chitika — a Kamala Harris spokesperson — wrote a summary of Llena's reporting, writing: "Donald Trump gives up on speaking at his own rally. He forced people to listen to his playlists instead. Stood on stage for the better part of an hour, swaying to music. And he refuses to release his medical records."
