Despite the fact that he claims to want people to vote for him, Donald Trump seems to have quite a thing for publicly insulting Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton.
Just recently, at his Dallas “Trumpapalooza” midterm convention, Trump stood on the stage and declared of Paxton, “He may not dress right. He may not talk exactly perfectly, and he may not be the best-looking guy I’ve ever seen, but you know what he is? He’s the greatest attorney general in America, and he deserves to be your next senator.”
Now returning to Denton, Texas, where he’s continuing to rally for Paxton as the midterm elections close in, the president took it upon himself to publicly dog on the guy yet again.
“He’s been a friend of mine for a long time, one of the most loyal people,” Trump said of the scandal-plagued Republican Senate candidate. “When I was being hit by the radical left… Ken Paxton was at my side, more than anybody, and I have to always remember that because he can be a pain in the a** sometimes — I’ll be honest.”
“Is he here, by the way?” Trump asked. “Oh, there he is. Good. I didn’t even know if he was here! I don’t care. I would say the same thing whether — the guy is the greatest attorney general in the United States of America.”
Trump campaigns for Ken Paxton in Texas: “He can be a pain in the ass sometimes, I’ll be honest. Is he here, by the way? Oh, there he is. I didn’t even know if he was here! I don’t care.” pic.twitter.com/AR9mNdSGEr
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 1, 2026
Of course, some of Trump’s weird ire could stem from the fact that Paxton was recently busted on unearthed audio admitting that the president’s “Trumpapalooza” event appeared to hurt his campaign.
“So to be honest with you, the numbers — when we did that convention — it dropped our numbers,” Paxton could be heard saying in a recording obtained by The New York Times. “Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.”
CNN data analyst Harry Enten recently confirmed that, according to the data, Paxton is the least popular Texas Republican Senate nominee this century.
