Trump has a problem with Jay-Z's language

TAMPA, Florida — Donald Trump wasted little time attacking Hillary Clinton on Saturday, boasting to a packed room of supporters here that he doesn’t need rapper Jay-Z’s star power to attract a large audience.

“You people were here from like 2 in the morning, they tell me,” Trump said. “And we don’t need Jay-Z to fill up arenas. We do it the old-fashioned way, folks. We fill them up because you love what we’re saying and you wanna make America great again.”


Clinton on Friday night appeared in Cleveland with Jay-Z, as well as Chicago-based artist Chance the Rapper — with Beyonce making a surprise performance and speech.

Trump said he likes Jay-Z and Beyoncé, but lamented “the language last night” from the concert.

“Should I use that language? Can you imagine if I said that?” Trump asked the crowd here at the Florida State Fairgrounds. “So he used every word in the book. I won’t even use the initials because I’ll get in trouble. They’ll get me in trouble. He used every word in the book last night.”

Trump’s bragged that his star power was enough to dwarf a free concert from Jay-Z and Beyoncé that yielded a crowd of about 10,000 people.

“We had 27,000 people show up” to his rally Friday in Hershey, Pennsylvania, he said. “Maybe they couldn’t get in. Far more — far more than Jay-Z had with their free tickets.

"Free tickets. Far more. And Beyoncé — and I like them both. But he used language last night that was so bad, and then Hillary said, ‘I did not like Donald Trump’s lewd language.’ I’ll tell you what, I’ve never said what he said in my life. But that shows you the phoniness of politicians and the phoniness of the whole system, folks.”