'Feeble' Trump conjoins GOP 'backstabber' and challenger as he praises 'Bob McGuire'
"Bob McGuire" ran a great race as challenger in a heated Virginia Republican primary election that was separated by about 400 votes.
So spoke Donald Trump on Friday, who took a brief moment out of his rally in Chesapeake, Virginia, to rip a fellow Republican's loss, whom the MAGA leader of the free world recently accused of being a backstabber.
But Trump — who has famously boasted of acing cognitive tests in recent days, including at Thursday's presidential debate — couldn't seem to figure out who, exactly, was his sworn enemy and who should receive praise.
In typical Trump fashion, he combined the two.
The flub came after Trump joked to the crowd that incumbent Republican and Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good, of Virginia’s contentious 5th District, was "terrible" to him for three years.
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"I used to say, 'Who is this guy? And then for the last six months this guy was great," said Trump. "So I had to make a decision. And we had a man named John McGuire, who's a Navy seal."
After fawning over McGuire as a "full-fledged Navy seal at the highest level" he congratulated the presumed winner.
"Bob McGuire, you're going to have a great race. You're going to win, and you are a hero. Thank you so much."
Trump added: "It was an honor to endorse him."
The mix-up caught the ears of many on social media.
"A feeble Trump confuses John McGuire with Bob Good: 'Bob McGuire,'" wrote @BidenHQ.
"But it’s OK when he gets confused," replied @rpcommunication.
"Bro isn’t well," wrote @ArtCandee.
The race between the two gained national attention when Good, the chair of the incendiary House Freedom Caucus, found himself in Trump's crosshairs. Trump openly attacked Good after he endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' ill-fated rival 2024 presidential campaign.
"John is running against Bob Good, who is actually bad for Virginia, and who will stab you in the back like he did me," Trump said in the video ahead of the primary."
The alt-right Freedom Caucus chair was notably on the receiving end of a cease-and-desist order from Trump over campaign signs in the weeks leading up to the election.
"Producing and displaying materials that give the false impression that President Trump is supportive of your candidacy is a fraud on the voters of Virginia's 5th Congressional District," the letter states.