MSNBC's Alex Wagner joked that former President Donald Trump has a particular odor, during analysis of his presidential campaign.
The TV news anchor appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday, where they spoke about the 2024 presidential elections and how each of the candidates are faring. Trump is the Republican nominee and will be facing off against the presumptive Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, on November 5.
Colbert asked his guest about Trump's recent struggles with trying to criticize Harris on the campaign trail, which have backfired on him. One major gaffe was Trump questioning the VP's ethnicity and insisting she "happened to turn Black" when he appeared on a panel at a National Association of Black Journalists event in July.
"Why do you think he's having such a hard time putting a target on her because he's attacked her in several different ways. But, you know, he's trying to burn her but the fat is flashing back in his face every time, you know what I mean," Colbert asked.
Wagner added to Colbert's joke, saying: "He smells like cooking oil."
She then seriously answered the question, saying: "He [Trump] is not actually that good at framing people...he just kind of picks something off the floor and throws it at the wall and it happened to work with Hillary [Clinton].
"But in large part, both Biden and Clinton were already known, he doesn't have that advantage with Harris and it's been a miserable failure.
"Like everything he's tried is either pathetic or racist or misogynist or just not funny and...I think it was Pete Wehner in The Atlantic that said, 'we're at the Fat Elvis stage of the Trump candidacy'."
Wagner's remark is not the first time people have commented on the former president's personal smell.
In December, CNN senior political commentator and former GOP congressman Adam Kinzinger said Trump's odor was "truly something to behold."
"I'm genuinely surprised how people close to Trump haven't talked about the odor," Kinzinger wrote on X—formerly Twitter— telling people to "wear a mask" when near Trump.
Even comedian Kathy Griffin was not impressed with Trump's odor.
She claimed in March 2023 that he smelled "really bad" and knew this from being close to him during her appearance on the Trump-led reality TV show, The Apprentice, in 2010.
"I was never a contestant," the 63-year-old said in an X post. "However, I did participate in two challenges.
"One I did because of my dear departed, beloved Joan Rivers. The other one I did because Trump paid me a bunch of money to spend the day with Liza Minnelli and host a challenge.
"Liza and I tried to ignore him, but he does smell really bad."
Disclaimer: The copyright of this article belongs to the original author. Reposting this article is solely for the purpose of information dissemination and does not constitute any investment advice. If there is any infringement, please contact us immediately. We will make corrections or deletions as necessary. Thank you.
