Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport on Saturday in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

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Former President Donald Trump called Kamala Harris a “shitty vice president” and suggested golfer Arnold Palmer was well-endowed during a sprawling rally Saturday in Pennsylvania that capped a tumultuous week on the campaign trail.

Speaking in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where Palmer was born, Trump delivered a lengthy monologue about the late golfer’s life story and praised him as a “perfect man,” including an inappropriate joke about Palmer’s anatomy.

“Arnold Palmer was a pure man, and I say that with all due respect to women — and I love women,” Trump said. “But this guy, this guy, this is a guy who was all man. This man was strong and tough. And I refuse to say it, but when he was showering with the other pros, they came out of there and said, ‘Oh my God, this is incredible.'”

In the final weeks of the 2024 campaign, Trump’s rally speeches largely reflect the same trajectory as earlier in the year – convoluted missives that paint a bleak picture of an America run by Democrats and overrun by migrants and tout a tariff-driven economic plan that is light on details and aggressively railed against his political opponents — particularly Democrats like Harris.

After a lengthy mockery of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Trump said Harris was “more radically left-leaning” than Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“So you need to tell Kamala Harris that you’ve had enough, that you just can’t take it anymore, we can’t stand you, you’re a shitty vice president,” Trump said to a cheering crowd. “The worst. You are the worst vice president. Kamala, you’re fired! Get out of here!”

Trump then asked the crowd how they liked his campaign plane’s flyover before landing and urged them to vote.

It was an unusually energetic rally for the former president, who has looked and sounded tired of late as he held multiple daily events and interviews in several swing states.

Harris’ campaign has made a deliberate attempt to highlight Trump’s energy levels as part of a final message arguing that the 78-year-old does not have the stamina or fitness to lead the country.

“He’s just focused on himself, and now he’s dodging debates and canceling interviews because he’s exhausted,” Harris said at a rally in Atlanta on Saturday evening. “And when he answers a question or gives a speech at a rally, have you noticed that he tends to go off script and ramble and generally can’t finish a thought with the best will in the world?”

Trump had a rough week with only a few of them left in the election

With less than 17 days until final votes are cast in the election, Trump’s campaign suffered several setbacks last week.

On Monday, at a town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania, two medical incidents occurred in the hot, crowded room. After the second call for a medic, Trump decided to cut short the question-and-answer session and instead play music and sing his favorite songs on stage for more than half an hour as the crowd watched.

On Tuesday, he took part in a controversial interview with Bloomberg News, taped a Fox News panel focused on women’s issues and then gave a speech in suburban Atlanta in which he made a dark remark about possible election defeat.

“If you don’t win, we all had a good time, but that won’t matter, will it?” he asked. “Unfortunately, because what we have achieved is amazing: three nominations in a row, what we have achieved. We can’t allow that.”

On Wednesday, Trump’s Fox Town Hall aired with an all-female audience, where he called himself the “father of IVF” and said Alabama Senator Katie Britt (a “fantastically attractive person”) had to explain to him what In -vitro fertilization before was he supported it.

He also participated in a Univision town hall with Latino voters, where he amplified false claims about Haitian migrants eating pets in Ohio and called the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt a “day of love.”

At a well-known Catholic charity dinner in New York on Thursday, Trump’s remarks focused largely on Harris, who was not present. At his rally in Michigan on Friday, the microphone stopped working a few minutes into his speech when he began talking about tariffs.

Trump paced the stage in silence for about 20 minutes until audio was restored, while the screens behind him eventually read “TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES” and “COMPLICATE BUSINESS.”

“If it starts again, I’m going to sue them,” Trump said, half-jokingly, of the production company.

Trump is hosting another rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday evening and a full week of events in key states is ahead. More than 13 million people have already voted in the presidential election, with just over two weeks of voting remaining.