Palin: It’s not ‘stupid’ to vote for Trump

Sarah Palin made a surprise appearance at a Donald Trump rally in San Diego on Friday, telling Trump supporters that members of the political establishment "want you all to feel stupid."

“Stupid is some people are actually going to vote for the crooked one,” Palin said, referring to the "Crooked Hillary" nickname that Trump has given Hillary Clinton.


The 2008 vice presidential candidate and former Republican Alaska governor said President Barack Obama's trip to Asia this week was "stupid" because he was taking an "apology lap" for the United States and visiting Hiroshima instead of Pearl Harbor so close to Memorial Day.

She also said "maybe it’s time" for the United States to rattle world leaders. At the G-7 summit on Thursday, Obama said that Trump has "rattled" those powerful figures.

Palin blasted the establishment and political commentators for doubting Trump's prospects as the Republican nominee for president.

“And media, you know, their head is still a-spinnin'," Palin said. "What you have tried to do to Donald Trump and to all of his supporters has only proven that we were right. Do you know how thoroughly distrusted you are, mainstream media? Well, he is now though, he is now we the people’s nominee. So suck it up, cupcake.”

During the primary, Trump shook up the professional political world, Palin said, exposing politicians as beholden to special interests. She said the Manhattan billionaire “blew the lid off the corrupted and corroded machine. He was like a golden wrecking ball. He wrecked what needed to be wrecked.”

“They’re really freaked out now that we all came in and demolished their tight-knit tent,” she said.