BREAKING: Trump doubles down on calling Tim Walz retarded: ‘There’s something wrong with him’

Asked by reporters whether he stood by the remark, Trump did not hesitate. “Yeah, I think there’s something wrong with him, absolutely, sure,” he said. When a reporter pressed him further — “Do you have a problem with it?” — Trump said back, “You know what? I think there’s something wrong with him.”

Trump then broadened his criticism, tying Walz to immigration policy and the state’s long-running tensions surrounding Somali refugee resettlement. “Anybody that would do what he did, anybody that would allow those people into a state and pay billions of dollars out to Somalia… we give billions of dollars to Somalia,” Trump said. “It’s not even a country because it doesn’t function like a country. It’s got a name, but it doesn’t function like a country.”

He concluded by repeating his central line of attack: “Yeah, there’s something wrong with Walz.”

Walz earlier condemned Trump’s rhetoric as “damaging” and said the president was “normalizing hateful behavior,” particularly toward Minnesota’s Somali community. Trump has repeatedly accused Walz of ignoring fraud, crime, and immigration concerns in Minneapolis, making the governor a frequent target in recent weeks.