Watch Donald Trump call a baby a 'future construction worker' and an 'early Trump fan'

Donald Trump holds aloft a Florida baby
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At one of his final pre-election appearances in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday, Republican Donald Trump brought a baby on stage and declared the child a "future construction worker" and an "early Trump fan."

"Look at this baby," he said after holding the baby aloft, Lion King-style. "They did a great job, wow. That is a great, beautiful baby, congratulations."

At the same rally, Trump announced he loves signs that say "Blacks for Trump," and complained that rapper Jay-Z used foul language during his Get-Out-the-Vote concert with wife Beyoncé for Hillary Clinton Friday evening. "He used language last night that was so bad, and then Hillary said, 'I did not like Donald Trump's lewd language,'" Trump said. "My lewd language. I'll tell you what, I’ve never said what [Jay] said in my life."

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On the policy front, Trump promised to "cancel billions in global warming payments to the United Nations and use that money to invest in America," particularly Florida.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.