Convicted felon Donald Trump told supporters in Nevada on June 9, 2024, “I don’t care about you. I just want your vote. I don’t care.”
The remark came during a scorching outdoor rally in Las Vegas, where temperatures climbed above 100 degrees. Six people were hospitalized, and 24 more were treated by EMTs on-site for heat-related illness.
Trump’s recent rallies, which either occur outdoors or involve long lines outside, have been punctuated by people boiling in the sun. Team Trump has made no efforts to mitigate the heat for his followers—and, in fact, booked the Nevada rally after his supporters collapsed in Arizona. This comes despite the fact that a third of Trump’s supporters are over age 65 and the most sensitive to heat.
Trump has a history of despising his supporters. During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Trump expressed gratitude for the highly contagious disease because it meant he didn’t have to shake hands with “these disgusting people.”
“He talked all the time about the people themselves being disgusting,” Olivia Troye, former homeland security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, told The New York Times in 2020 while discussing Trump’s view of his supporters. “It was clear immediately that he wanted nothing to do with them.”
Trump’s latest admission of apathy while holding rallies that keep sending people to the hospital speaks volumes on Trump’s perception of his base, but it begs the question of how he’s expected to get their votes if he keeps encouraging them to do things that can kill them.
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