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Donald Trump traveled to Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia on Wednesday to promote his "Trump Accounts" savings program, but it didn't take long for the event to veer into a meandering, incoherent attack on Senator Jon Ossoff, one of the Democratic Party's brightest rising stars and a name increasingly floated for a 2028 presidential run.
Trump has spent recent weeks trying to land a nickname on Ossoff, reaching for "PeeWee Herman" as his insult of choice, a schoolyard insult that has mostly generated mockery rather than damage, given that Ossoff, a telegenic 38-year-old senator, bears no resemblance to the 1980s children's character. On Wednesday, a very sweaty and slurry Trump couldn't even manage to get his own attack line right.
"Your terrible Senator Jon Ossoff, he's terrible, and the Democrats in Congress are voting with the communists — every single time, they're afraid of the communists," Trump said, veering immediately into one of his standard non-sequiturs. "You look at it now — I fought Ossoff before, as you know, and we won. We had a great success against this guy. He reminds me of Pinky Herman. Do you ever see Pinky Herman?"
There is no public figure named "Pinky Herman." Trump appears to have garbled his own manufactured nickname for Ossoff, possibly cross-wiring "PeeWee Herman" with Pinky Lee, an entirely different and largely forgotten children's entertainer from the 1950s. The slip-up was instantly noticed and mocked online, with one viral post asking simply: "When did he face Ossoff? And who the hell is Pinky Herman?"
Trump's fixation on Ossoff is notable given the senator's rapidly growing public profile in recent months. Ossoff faces Georgia Republican Mike Collins in November, not Trump, despite Trump's efforts to make the race about himself. Ossoff has increasingly used his platform to go on offense against the administration, recently blasting Trump from the pulpit at an Atlanta church as a "spiritually broken president" presiding over a government "transformed into a tool of one man's vengeance and enrichment." Ossoff has deftly connection Donald Trump's corruption scandals to the pain many Americans are feeling under his administration.
The Wheeler High School event was ostensibly about Trump's new child savings accounts program, but as has become a pattern, the president couldn't resist turning a policy rollout into a disjointed campaign attack, one that once again left him tripping over his own material.
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