Frustrated Trump yells ‘shut up’ at protester just minutes into final sprint of midterm rallies

President Donald Trump repeatedly shouted “shut up” at a protester who interrupted his midterm campaign rally in Florida, the latest in a series of clashes with demonstrators ahead of Election Day.Trump was just minutes into his speech Friday at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach when a man began heckling him. It’s unclear what he was shouting.“By the way, there’s never been such excitement for a midterm,” Trump said before pointing towards the crowd and exclaiming: “Shut up! Shut up, dope.”“Shut up, loser. What a loser. Get him out of here,” the 80-year-old president added. Video footage shows the man being escorted out of the venue as the crowd booed.Trump has held a string of rallies in the weeks leading up to the midterm elections, many of them disrupted by protesters — who have drawn a range of responses from the president.‘Shut up, loser. What a loser. Get him out of here,’ Trump said after a protester interrupted his midterm rally in Florida on Friday (Reuters)At an October 12 rally in Ohio, a woman stood up wearing a shirt that read: “Release the Epstein Files.” Multiple attendees seated near her quickly began pulling at her clothing, while one man appeared to strike her as the crowd shouted “USA, USA, USA.”“He’s a paid protester,” Trump said during the commotion. “They’re all paid. They get paid by the lefties in order to destroy our country. They’re scum. But he’s going back home to Mom. He’s going back home to Mom.”“Look at him,” the president continued as law enforcement removed the woman. “Terrible. Don’t we love law enforcement? Oh, he’s gotta go on a diet! He’s a fat guy. Wow, wow. Gotta go on a diet fast. We all do.”One week later, demonstrators repeatedly interrupted the president’s rally in Kansas, prompting familiar refrains.“Now he goes home to mom and dad,” Trump said after the first interjection. “They slap him around, they say I voted for that man.” Moments later, another protester interrupted Trump’s speech. “How great is it to be at a Trump rally,” the president said in an apparent effort to flaunt his support. The crowd cheered, and then Trump added another dig: "Whatever you do, get out and vote so we can get rid of idiots like that.”A protester yells as he's removed from the venue as President Donald Trump speaks at a midterm campaign rally at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach, Florida on October 30 (AFP/Getty)Trump’s October 20 rally in North Carolina was also marked by hecklers — whom the president compared to rioters in France. “They get paid by the radical left lunatics that you watch taking place in France,” Trump said. Six days later, a man heckled Trump during a speech in Mississippi, shouting, “Shove that ballroom up your fat a**.” “Oh, go home. Go home. Go home,” the president snapped before returning to his usual claim that protesters are paid.With Election Day just three days away, numerous polls indicate that Republicans could suffer severe losses, amid voter frustration over the cost of living and the Iran war, which has stretched on for eight months with no clear end in sight.At the same time, the president’s own approval rating has hovered near historic lows, polls show. In a Reuters-Ipsos survey released earlier this month, a record-low 31 percent of Americans said they approved of the president’s job performance.“I mean this is a five-alarm Trumpster fire, that’s what we’re talking about,” CNN data analyst Harry Enten said while discussing the poll.