President Donald Trump kicked off his tour through solidly Republican states on Thursday with a stop to address truckers in Texas.

The president, whose marriage is at it’s lowest ever point due to a “disturbing truth,” visited a manufacturing plant in Denton to lay out his trade and tariff policies as part of his administration’s effort to boost American manufacturing. The trip comes as economic anxieties persist, with latest polls showing his economic approval ratings remain weak.

The event also puts Trump squarely in the middle of a fiercely competitive Senate battle between Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, his endorsed candidate, and Democratic state Rep. James Talarico. Paxton appeared alongside Trump onstage, mere days after privately expressing that last month’s GOP midterm convention hurt his political standing. It comes just days after a lip reader spotted Ivanka Trump’s 3-word order to JD Vance as they whispered at the White House.

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During his speech, Trump targeted climate change policies, mentioning Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and stating “we’re supposed to be all dead. He also gestured with a glass of water during his remarks, while saying, “I’m not a big drinker of water.”

Trump used a glass of water to represent how much gas is saved by green fuel-saving practises in engines. “It’s ridiculous,” he cried then threw the water onto the floor before resuming his address.

“We’re supposed to all be dead. AOC said that, right? That didn’t work out because the planet got cooler. In fact, you know, the ice that was melting, it’s right now just set a record. It’s the biggest ice cube that’s ever been in the history of the world,” he said.

“So they changed it from global warming to climate change, because climate change.. if it gets hot, cold, if it rains, if it snows, nobody knows the difference. It’s climate change,” he added. “No, it’s a scam, and they’re doing the scam with data centers, by the way, that’s a new thing because they want us to be unsuccessful.”

Social media users on Threads weighed in with their reactions, including one who wrote, “Stupid bast**d doesn’t know what the base of Diet Coke is.,” while others responded with clown emojis.

In 2019, Ocasio-Cortez addressed climate change on X, posting, “Millennials, and Gen z, and all these folks that come after us, are looking up and we’re like ‘the world will end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change, and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?”

Her statement alluded to a 2018 United Nations-supported climate assessment, which cautioned that climate change impacts would become irreversible and unavoidable unless carbon emissions were controlled within the following 12 years. Republicans are facing a challenging situation as the midterm elections approach.

Trump seems to be negatively impacting their polling numbers, something that nominee Ken Paxton admitted in recently surfaced audio recordings.

“So, to be honest with you, the numbers – when we did that convention – it dropped our numbers,” Paxton said in an audio clip shared by The New York Times. “Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.”

Paxton delivered these remarks at a private fundraising event in Washington, D. C., which was attended by conservative donors and lobbyists, according to the outlet. Nick Maddux, a senior Paxton adviser, rejected the report as “manipulated nonsense from The New York Times to create a story that doesn’t exist.”

Maddux pointed to polling data showing Paxton ahead of Talarico, asserting that “every serious pollster will tell you that our numbers have improved since early September” and that Paxton “is going to win this race.”

This follows Trump ‘shamefully’ lining the White House walls with scandalous framed photos.