"Weird." Democrats want this to be the word of 2024 -- their secret weapon to bring down Donald Trump.

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&quot;Weird.&quot; Democrats want this to be the word of 2024 -- their secret weapon to bring down Donald Trump.&quot;Trump is old and quite weird?&quot; as a Kamala Harris campaign statement put it.&quot;Just plain weird,&quot; Harris said.Trump has built a political career on mocking everyone from opponents to his own staffers.But being the butt of the joke makes him furious.&quot;I hate when people laugh at me,&quot; he told a rally earlier this month.That &quot;weird&quot; jibe is Harris&#39;s bid, in her come-from-behind campaign, to get the whole country laughing.<a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/7/29/100-days-extraordinary-us-election-enters-the-home-stretch-1007">100 days: Extraordinary US election enters the home stretch</a>Where President Joe Biden used formal -- often grandiose -- speeches to frame Trump as an existential boogeyman, Harris&#39;s team is trying to shrink the Republican into something more like an unpleasant clown.Here are typical phrases from Harris campaign releases on Trump:-&quot;Bitter, unhinged.&quot;-&quot;Rambled about&nbsp;golf.&quot;-&quot;Generally sounded like someone you wouldn&#39;t want to sit near at a restaurant -- let alone be president of the United States.&quot;And when it comes to Trump&#39;s vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance, the mockery is if anything more intense.Vance&#39;s past comments belittling &quot;childless cat ladies&quot; -- women who, like Harris, have not given birth -- raise him to the &quot;super weird&quot; category, according to two Democratic senators.And a viral piece of online trolling -- a fake story claiming that Vance wrote about&nbsp;sex acts with a sofa -- demonstrates the extent to which the anti-Trump camp is ready to weaponize humor.<a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/7/17/-i-didn-t-vote-for-trump-j-d-vance-trump-s-running-mate-was-once-a-bitter-critic-944">J.D. Vance, Trump&#39;s running mate, was once a bitter critic</a>The story may have been made up, but an industrial flow of memes involving Vance, couches and suggestions of what might be happening between them did the damage.&quot;J.D. Vance didn&#39;t have sex with a couch. But he&#39;s still extremely weird,&quot; began an article on the online news site Vox.Or as Hillary Clinton put it: &quot;If Republican leaders don&#39;t enjoy being called weird, creepy, and controlling, they could try not being weird, creepy, and controlling.&quot; TRUMP ATTACKS HARRIS&#39;S LAUGH&nbsp; The Trump campaign was blindsided by Biden&#39;s abrupt decision to drop out, then Harris&#39;s warp-speed start, which in one week has seen her ignite the Democratic base and pull level with Trump -- or even ahead -- in the polls.&quot;A sucker punch,&quot; Vance said in a recording of an address to supporters obtained by The Washington Post.The shift in tone from Biden&#39;s policy-heavy sermons about democracy to the edgier Harris approach is no less startling.Now&nbsp;Republicans are looking to turn the joke back on their opponents.<a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/7/24/harris-leads-trump-in-new-poll-after-biden-dropout-1018">Harris leads Trump in new poll after Biden dropout</a>Trump is doing what he&#39;s always done -- dishing out the insults and trying to find one that sticks. He&#39;s called her &quot;dumb,&quot; &quot;nuts&quot; and a &quot;bum.&quot;And Trump&#39;s combative son, Don Jr, is leading a drive to flip the &quot;weird&quot; jibe on its head.&quot;What a ... weirdo,&quot; he posted on X, using a common vulgarity, over a video clip of Harris saying she supports access to gender reassignment surgery for prison inmates.&quot;Talk about weird priorities,&quot; he wrote in another post about her transgender support.And if Harris thinks she can laugh at Trump, then he has an answer to that too -- by attacking the way she laughs.&quot;You can tell a lot by a laugh,&quot; he said, trying out &quot;laughing Kamala&quot; as a nickname. &quot;She&#39;s crazy.&quot;<a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/7/27/trump-accuses-harris-of-anti-semitism-in-overblown-speech-1508">Trump accuses Harris of anti-Semitism in overblown speech</a>&copy; Agence France-Presse

But being the butt of the joke makes him furious.&quot;I hate when people laugh at me,&quot; he told a rally earlier this month.That &quot;weird&quot; jibe is Harris&#39;s bid, in her come-from-behind campaign, to get the whole country laughing.<a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/7/29/100-days-extraordinary-us-election-enters-the-home-stretch-1007">100 days: Extraordinary US election enters the home stretch</a>Where President Joe Biden used formal -- often grandiose -- speeches to frame Trump as an existential boogeyman, Harris&#39;s team is trying to shrink the Republican into something more like an unpleasant clown.Here are typical phrases from Harris campaign releases on Trump:-&quot;Bitter, unhinged.&quot;-&quot;Rambled about&nbsp;golf.&quot;-&quot;Generally sounded like someone you wouldn&#39;t want to sit near at a restaurant -- let alone be president of the United States.&quot;And when it comes to Trump&#39;s vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance, the mockery is if anything more intense.Vance&#39;s past comments belittling &quot;childless cat ladies&quot; -- women who, like Harris, have not given birth -- raise him to the &quot;super weird&quot; category, according to two Democratic senators.And a viral piece of online trolling -- a fake story claiming that Vance wrote about&nbsp;sex acts with a sofa -- demonstrates the extent to which the anti-Trump camp is ready to weaponize humor.<a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/7/17/-i-didn-t-vote-for-trump-j-d-vance-trump-s-running-mate-was-once-a-bitter-critic-944">J.D. Vance, Trump&#39;s running mate, was once a bitter critic</a>The story may have been made up, but an industrial flow of memes involving Vance, couches and suggestions of what might be happening between them did the damage.&quot;J.D. Vance didn&#39;t have sex with a couch. But he&#39;s still extremely weird,&quot; began an article on the online news site Vox.Or as Hillary Clinton put it: &quot;If Republican leaders don&#39;t enjoy being called weird, creepy, and controlling, they could try not being weird, creepy, and controlling.&quot; TRUMP ATTACKS HARRIS&#39;S LAUGH&nbsp; The Trump campaign was blindsided by Biden&#39;s abrupt decision to drop out, then Harris&#39;s warp-speed start, which in one week has seen her ignite the Democratic base and pull level with Trump -- or even ahead -- in the polls.&quot;A sucker punch,&quot; Vance said in a recording of an address to supporters obtained by The Washington Post.The shift in tone from Biden&#39;s policy-heavy sermons about democracy to the edgier Harris approach is no less startling.Now&nbsp;Republicans are looking to turn the joke back on their opponents.<a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/7/24/harris-leads-trump-in-new-poll-after-biden-dropout-1018">Harris leads Trump in new poll after Biden dropout</a>Trump is doing what he&#39;s always done -- dishing out the insults and trying to find one that sticks. He&#39;s called her &quot;dumb,&quot; &quot;nuts&quot; and a &quot;bum.&quot;And Trump&#39;s combative son, Don Jr, is leading a drive to flip the &quot;weird&quot; jibe on its head.&quot;What a ... weirdo,&quot; he posted on X, using a common vulgarity, over a video clip of Harris saying she supports access to gender reassignment surgery for prison inmates.&quot;Talk about weird priorities,&quot; he wrote in another post about her transgender support.And if Harris thinks she can laugh at Trump, then he has an answer to that too -- by attacking the way she laughs.&quot;You can tell a lot by a laugh,&quot; he said, trying out &quot;laughing Kamala&quot; as a nickname. &quot;She&#39;s crazy.&quot;<a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/7/27/trump-accuses-harris-of-anti-semitism-in-overblown-speech-1508">Trump accuses Harris of anti-Semitism in overblown speech</a>&copy; Agence France-Presse

&quot;Just plain weird,&quot; Harris said.Trump has built a political career on mocking everyone from opponents to his own staffers.

&quot;Weird.&quot; Democrats want this to be the word of 2024 -- their secret weapon to bring down Donald Trump.&quot;Trump is old and quite weird?&quot; as a Kamala Harris campaign statement put it.

"Weird." Democrats want this to be the word of 2024 -- their secret weapon to bring down Donald Trump.

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'Weird' Trump hates being laughed at. So Harris is laughing

'Weird' Trump hates being laughed at. So Harris is laughing