
Donald Trump slammed teleprompter operators over what he said were technical issues at his Sunday rally in Las Vegas.
“I got no teleprompters, and I haven’t from the beginning,” Trump told the audience.
“I pay all this money to teleprompter people, and I’d say 20 percent of the time they don’t work; they don’t work. The thing’s waving around. They can’t tie it a little bit tighter. I’m trying to look at,” he said, cutting himself off. “So we’re all in this together, everybody. Just a mess.”
At one point during his rant to the audience, he threatened to withhold payment to the company who provided the teleprompters.
“He just came up: ‘Are the teleprompters not working, sir?’ ‘Not even a little bit,’” Trump said, recounting an exchange he had with a crew member.
“Great job. And then I don’t pay the company that does it, right?” Trump said. “And then I end up with a story, ‘Trump doesn’t pay.’ I don’t pay contractors that do a sh‑‑ty job. And that’s a sh‑‑ty job. That’s a sh‑‑ty job. You can’t read a word.”
“Then they’ll say, ‘Oh, isn’t it terrible? Trump takes advantage of his—,’” Trump added, cutting himself off. “No. … When I have a good contractor, a subcontractor, nobody gets paid faster. But when I have contractors that do this kind of work? You can have them.”