Mic issues irk Trump during Milwaukee rally: 'I'm working my ass off with this stupid mic'

Former President Donald Trump's anger with his microphone during a Fiserv Forum rally in Milwaukee bubbled over when he proclaimed "I'm up here seething" and audience members started chanting "fix the mic!"

Trump early in his speech pulled the mic off the stand when people in the audience said they couldn’t hear.

He ended up holding the mic and after a while started complaining that it was heavy.

“Do you want to see me knock the hell out of people backstage? … I am up here seething. I’m working my ass off with this stupid mic,” Trump said. "I'm blowing out my left arm, now I'm blowing out my right arm and I'm blowing out my damn throat, too, because these stupid people."

His discussion of the mic issue continued for a while, including his miming of the mic stand being too low. At one point he appeared to get tired of holding it.

Clips of the stage antics with the microphone circulating online suggested Trump was pantomiming a sex act, provoking laughter from the audience along with a mix of outrage and jokes on social media and during this weekend's episode of "Saturday Night Live."

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This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Microphone issues irk Trump during Milwaukee rally at Fiserv Forum