Trump turns DJ at campaign ‘love fest’

Kamala Harris hopes Trump is “okay”. So, is he? He gave up talking and swayed along to the strains of his own playlist for 39 minutes at what was billed as a town hall event in Pennsylvania on Monday. There was an explanation (two attendees needed medical attention), but not sufficient to explain his co-host’s evident discomfort. Trump has since put in a combative and – by his standards – cogent performance in an interview with Bloomberg, asserting a president’s right to coach the Fed chair on interest rates and calling ‘tariff’ “the most beautiful word in the dictionary”. His playlist includes ‘Hallelujah’ as performed by Rufus Wainwright, ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ by Sinead O’Connor, ‘Time to Say Goodbye’ sung by Andrea Bocelli, ‘An American Trilogy’ by Elvis Presley, ‘It’s a Man’s World’ by James Brown, ‘November Rain’ by Guns N’ Roses and a Pavarotti rendition of Schubert’s ‘Ave Maria’. The Trump campaign called the sway-along a “love fest”. It may wish he’d seized the opportunity to talk; Pennsylvania is a must-win state and polls there are tied.