Watch Donald Trump tear apart his own teleprompter on stage
Republican Donald Trump grew frustrated with teleprompters he said were malfunctioning at a rally in North Carolina Friday night and decided the solution was to take them down himself. "These teleprompters haven't been working for the last 20 minutes," he said to laughs and cheers, "and I actually like my speech better without teleprompters." Trump then attempted to move one teleprompter to the side only to have the screen fall off.
A few minutes later, after further musing on his own view of teleprompters — "they are fine, but it’s sort of cooler without it" — and rival Hillary Clinton's apparently problematic habit of sleeping after long days on the campaign trail, Trump dismantled his second teleprompter, gave it a goodbye kiss, and tossed it aside. Watch the whole scene below. Bonnie Kristian
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