Desperate Donald Trump mockingly brandished a miniature pack of TicTacs as a jab at Joe Biden during a rowdy rally in North Carolina, even though the President had bowed out from the re-election race three weeks prior.

At 78 years young, Trump took a humorous swipe at ‘Bidenflation’ by showcasing an unusually small container of TicTacs in Asheville on the past Wednesday evening. In a striking visual comparison, he presented two distinct sizes of TicTac boxes to illustrate inflation’s impact on everyday shopping items.

“This is the greatest commercial they ever had,” declared Trump, as he whipped out the TicTac box from his pocket. With a flourish, he showed off the diminutive pack and proclaimed: “This is inflation.”

Even though POTUS Biden had withdrawn from the presidential contest over three weeks earlier, Trump, who famously used the same Tic Tac technique at an earlier rally in Minneapolis, didn’t hesitate to take digs at him, reports the Mirror US.

Turning the heat up, Trump tore into Democratic contender Kamala Harris with vitriolic criticism, claiming she was only in the fray because “their fighter was losing.”

He didn’t mince words saying: “You know why she hasn’t done an interview? She’s not smart. She’s not intelligent. And we’ve gone through enough of that with this guy, crooked Joe.”

To add further insult, he claimed: “The American dream is dead. America isn’t great.”

With the Democratic National Convention fast approaching next week, where VP candidate Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will be firmly in the spotlight, Trump couldn’t resist unleashing a series of impromptu tirades against them.

“It’s a fake ticket that never earned a single Democrat primary vote,” he declared. “It’s a fake platform that offers no specifics about how to do the people’s businesses and a fake promise to change the government, even though she’s been in charge of that government for almost four years and hasn’t done a damn thing,” Trump vented at the rally.

Trump claimed Harris “copies.” He claimed her economic policies “will probably be a copy of my plan.”

The rally took place in Asheville, North Carolina, a Democratic city surrounded by staunchly Republican mountain counties. Trump assured North Carolinians of his plans to “bring back manufacturing” in the state and alleged that China and other Asian countries are being overly incentivised by the US.

North Carolina, which gave Trump his narrowest statewide margin of victory four years ago, is predicted to be a battleground once again in 2024.