President Donald Trump, 80, is having trouble holding the attention of the people who attend his rallies.
Footage of the crowd at a rally this week in Marietta, Georgia, showed people behind the president restlessly looking around as he droned on, The Daily Show pointed out.
“After 10 years of Trump rallies you can kind of tell that he’s not moving crowds the way he used to,” host Desi Lydic said. “The people there were yawning, they were bored, not even looking at him.”
The shots of the crowd Lydic cut to show a listless group of people, looking in various directions and, in one man’s case, visibly covering his mouth as he yawned.
“This one kid was just on his phone half the time,” she continued. “Come on, Donald, you gotta win this crowd back!”
Lydic theorized that part of the problem was that Trump has lost his knack for connecting with people through gimmicky names for his initiatives, highlighting a section of Trump’s speech where he talked about a new healthcare policy.
“We will pass the great healthcare plan, it’s called Our Great Healthcare Plan, that’s the name of it,” Trump says in the clip.
Trump’s rallies are famously long, with the president often speaking for over an hour on any and all topics that enter his head.
On Wednesday in Georgia, he spoke for almost an hour and 15 minutes to a packed high school gym.
He was there to promote his “Trump Accounts” plan and to boost the campaigns of Rep. Mike Collins, who is running for the Senate against incumbent Democrat Jon Ossoff and gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson.
The audience behind Trump in the stands at first appeared enthusiastic, but as time ticked by, they became more and more lethargic.
The rollout of the Trump Accounts began with a press conference in the Oval Office where at least one of the children recruited to help promote the policy fell asleep during Trump’s remarks.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
