“Where is he? He's gone. I knew it,” Donald Trump said, mocking Major Michael Haley.
Former US President Donald Trump mocked the husband of former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley at a campaign rally in his home state, asking why he had disappeared from the campaign trail. ABC News reported.
At the rally, the 77-year-old Republican presidential candidate asked about the whereabouts of the elder Michael Haley, suggesting that his absence from the campaign trail was the result of a strained marriage to Haley.
“Where is your husband? Oh, he's far away. He's far away,” Trump mocked. “What happened to her husband? What happened to her husband? Where is he? She's gone. She knew it. She knew it.”
Meanwhile, more than 150 miles away, at a campaign event in Gilbert, South Carolina, Haley quickly responded to her former boss' comments about her husband, who is currently on active duty in the Horn of Africa for the South Carolina Army National Guard.
“I need to start with the fact that Donald Trump had a rally today and at that rally he made fun of my husband's military service,” she began.
Haley invited Trump to say it to her face in a debate, a request she has made continually during the election campaign.
“And I will say this, Donald, if you have something to say, don't say it behind my back,” he said. “Get on a debate stage and say it to my face.”
Haley then said that anyone who mocks a combat veteran's service should not be president, and again challenged Trump to take a mental competency test to prove his fitness to be president.
“I've talked for a long time about the fact that we need to have mental competency testing for anyone over 75. Donald Trump claims he would approve of that, maybe he would, maybe he wouldn't. But if you mock the service of “A “A combat veteran does not deserve a driver's license, much less be president of the United States.”
Major Haley responded to Trump's insult in a post on X, formerly Twitter, in which she tagged Trump and several media outlets along with a meme.
Bold white text overlaid a portrait of a wolf and read: “The difference between humans and animals? Animals would never allow the dumbest ones to lead the pack.”
