Trump’s mic-drop moment that left him wandering around stage speechless for 17 minutes in Detroit

A furious Donald Trump raged at his sound crew at his Detroit rally on Friday night after a technical glitch upended the event. 

The former president, 78, saw the sound cut out for over 17 minutes as he spoke to rallygoers in Michigan, leaving him to wander around the stage aimlessly as he grew visibly angry. 

When the sound eventually came back on, Trump fumed at staff at the event, drawing cheers from his crowd. 

‘I won’t pay the bill to this stupid company,’ Trump said of his rally sound crew. ‘If it goes out again, I’ll sue the ass off that company.’

The awkward moment on Friday night came as Trump rallied supporters in Michigan, one of the few key swing states that will decide November’s election. 

The audio failure caused something of a cliffhanger for those in attendance, as Trump had been building up to his opinion of ‘the most beautiful word.’ 

‘To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary, it’s not ‘love,’ it’s not ‘respect,’ he said, before his mic cut out. 

NBC reporter Garrett Haake, who was at the event, said Trump was left ‘loitering on stage waiting for tech folks to figure this out.’ 

After 16 minutes, he added: ‘The music has come on, but no mic. Trump is still just standing on stage, waving to folks. Attendees are starting to leave.’ 

Some online went on to criticize Trump’s remarks that he wouldn’t pay the sound crew or would ‘sue the ass off that company’, with one joking that he is ‘full of class.’ 

‘Remember when this kind of language was considered inappropriate for a former president?’ another said. 

Before the technical glitch, Trump had been attempting to woo voters in Detroit and walk back his insulting of the city during an event at the Detroit Economic Club a week ago. 

At that event, he warned that the ‘whole country will end up being like Detroit’ if Kamala Harris defeats him in November. ‘You’re going to have a mess on your hands.’ 

Following backlash from Michigan residents over the remarks, on Friday Trump changed his tune. 

‘Your beautiful place, your beautiful city,’ Trump said. ‘Was decimated as if by a foreign army. 

‘I will put Detroit first. I will put Michigan first. I will put America first.’   

Friday night was not the first time Trump has raised eyebrows by wandering around the stage at an event in recent weeks, with a series of medical emergencies on Monday in Pennsylvania leading him to abandon his remarks in favor of just playing music for his crowd. 

As doctors jumped in to help the attendees, Trump said from the stage: ‘Let’s not do any more questions… let’s just listen to music.’ 

First came Ave Marie, Schubert’s masterpiece that is a favorite at weddings and funerals, as Trump stood center stage looking out into the middle distance.

Then came Pavarotti and James Brown. And finally, inevitably, the Village People singing ‘Y.M.C.A.’