‘I’m not making this up’

A CNN reporter at the MAGA rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday struggled to make his way through a recap of former President Donald Trump’s talking points from the event, which included a lengthy anecdote about late golf legend Arnold Palmer’s genitalia.

The live feed showed political correspondent Steve Contorno trying to summarize Trump’s rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, which skipped from a bizarre tangent about Palmer’s manhood to the former president’s haircare routine.

Former President Donald Trump claimed other golfers who hit the showers with Palmer reacted in amazement at what they saw. Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images

Trump talked about Palmer, a Latrobe native, for 12 minutes.

“Arnold Palmer was all man. And I say that at all due respect to women. And I love women. But this guy, this guy. This is a guy that was all man,” Trump had said during his speech.

“This man was strong and tough…And I refuse to say it. But when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there. They said, ‘Oh my God! That’s unbelievable.’”

Former President Donald Trump lauded the golf legend as “all man.” AP

Contorno was tasked with professionally covering Palmer’s purported well-endowment live on air while Trump was still talking in the background.

“Trump’s campaign telling us that tonight’s appearance in this speech that he is giving is the beginning of his closing argument to voters that he is going to deliver over the next couple weeks. And that closing argument began rather… interestingly,” Contorno began, already fighting back a chuckle.

Trump’s remarks at the rally ran the gamut from details about the former president’s haircare routine to the Hall of Fame golfer’s impressive alleged assets. Ryan Garza / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

“He started with a long-winded story about Latrobe, Pennsylvania native Arnold Palmer, including — and I’m not making this up — a description of the Hall of Fame golfer in the men’s room, in the locker room, and what he looked like in the shower!”

Stifling laughter, he moved on quickly, segueing into the more typical rally coverage of parsing through political statements, including Trump’s continued attacks against President Joe Biden for targeting Catholic Americans.