Fox News host Emily Compagno had eyes rolling hard after she praised former President Donald Trump for coming off as a "normal, average American" during his recent Las Vegas rally.
This is the same rally, by the way, where Trump launched into an unusual tirade about whether it would be better to be electrocuted on a sinking boat or to be eaten by a shark in the ocean, deducing that between those two choices he'd "take electrocution every single time."
But Compagno didn't mention any of that in her remarks on Outnumbered:
"Bottom line, that moment by Trump, as you said, I love this, and it showed us who he is. He’s a normal, average American. He did great without the teleprompter!"
"And what we saw play out, that was state TV, right? That’s everyone getting in line and making sure, 'Nothing to see here. Guys, you didn’t see anything. [President Joe] Biden’s the best.'"
You can hear what she said in the video below.
Compagno was swiftly mocked for her remarks.
Trump's behavior during the Las Vegas rally clearly didn't go over well with commentators like Washington Post columnist and reporter Eugene Robinson, who observed that Trump's story about sharks and electrocution "is another glimpse into a mind that is unwell."
Robinson said that Trump's "tangents raise serious questions about his mental fitness" and pointed out that the White House press corps "would be in wolf pack mode if Biden were in the middle of a speech and suddenly veered into gibberish about boats and sharks."
He added:
"There would be front-page stories questioning whether the president, at 81, was suffering from dementia; and the op-ed pages would be filled with thumb-suckers about whether Vice President Harris and the Cabinet should invoke the 25th Amendment. House Republicans would already have scheduled hearings on Biden’s mental condition and demanded he take a cognitive test."
Robinson concluded that Trump's mental capacity is "is a much bigger problem than Biden fumbling a name or garbling a sentence."
