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Donald Trump made another gaffe on the campaign trail, accidentally insulting his own supporters.
In a video posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, the former president urged his supporters to "take a stand" and "save our country" as he hit out against the Colorado trial seeking to remove his name from the presidential ballot.
But while urging people to support him and accusing those involved in the legal action as being against democracy, he appeared to accidentally label his MAGA supporters as "tyrants."
"Our country is being destroyed by people who have no idea what they're doing or even worse, they may very well have an idea they may hate our country, and they may want to see it destroyed," Trump said in the video.
He added: "This truly is our last chance to save America, and with the 2024 election now less than one year away, this is your chance to take a stand against tyrants that support the one and only movement that can save our country and make America great again. We must win in 2024."
Newsweek reached out to representatives for Trump for comment.
The latest slip comes after the Republican made a series of gaffes while campaigning for the party's 2024 primary nomination last week.
He mislabeled the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, as the leader of Turkey during an October 23 rally in Derry, New Hampshire, where he filed for the presidential primary.
On October 28, Trump made a one-hour speech to 1,000 supporters in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he attacked his primary rivals, repeated claims that his legal battles are political, and referred to "proterrotism."
One day later, he gave a speech in Sioux City, Iowa—and called the town Sioux Falls.
Later in the same speech, he mispronounced Canada as "Canya" while speaking about trade deals. He also claimed that "Hungary fronts on both Ukraine and Russia." The country shares a border with Ukraine but not Russia.
Reacting to his latest gaffe, people on X, formerly Twitter, mocked the Republican. Even Joe Biden's 2024 re-election campaign shared the video.
"He's campaigning against himself?" one X user quipped.
"For once I agree with him," another person wrote.
Centrist political action committee The Lincoln Project, which opposes Trump and his followers, said on X that the former president is "falling apart."
One person, @HablePatri15177, pointed out another gaffe from the video that appears to have flown under the radar: "The election isn't less than one year away. It's a little more than a year away."
The Colorado case, which he was speaking out against in his Truth Social video, seeks a court order blocking Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold from putting Trump's name on the ballots for Colorado's GOP primary and the general election, citing his alleged involvement in the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
It was filed in September by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington on behalf of six Republican and unaffiliated Colorado voters. It is based on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which bans those who "engaged in insurrection" or have "given aid or comfort" to insurrectionists from running for office.
Trump has not been charged with insurrection and denies all wrongdoing in any of the cases he's currently facing.
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