Lil Pump: Trump calls rapper 'Lil Pimp' during rally introduction

President also joked that he won’t speak to his children if he loses the election, in his final rally of the bruising 2020 campaign

Moments after showing the crowd a compilation of Joe Biden’s gaffes at his Michigan rally, Donald Trump called the rapper Lil Pump “Lil Pimp” as he invited him on to the stage.

In his last rally for the 2020 elections at Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Monday night Mr Trump called the rapper on stage in front of the cheering crowd, and identified him as “one of the big superstars of the world”.

But viewers of the live-streamed rally were quick to spot that the president called the musician “Lil Pimp”, before realising his gaffe and naming him correctly within about 15 seconds.

It came as Mr Trump, 74, showed the crowd in Michigan, a key swing state, a compilation of verbal slip-ups made by Mr Biden, 77, during the Democrat’s own campaigning, before adding: “You can’t let this happen to our country” and saying “it puts more pressure on [Trump] running against a guy like this.”

“You are lucky I agreed to be your president,” Mr Trump told the crowd. 

Lil Pump, who was nominated for best new artist at the VMAs in 2018 and whose breakthrough came with the 2017 hit “Gucci Gang”, has previously said he is going to “move the f*** out” of the US and go “to Colombia” if Mr Trump doesn’t win the election.

Speaking on the stage on Monday night, he said he “appreciates” what Mr Trump has done during his first term, saying he “brought the troops home” and is “doing the right thing” for the country. 

“MAGA [Make America Great Again] 2020,” he said, adding: "Don’t forget that, and do no vote for sleepy Joe at all.” He then left the stage.

It has since been pointed out that, just before the 2016 US election, Lil Pump tweeted the words: “F*** Donald Trump.”

Later in the rally, Mr Trump criticised what he called Mr Biden’s plans for a new coronavirus lockdown, stating that it “would mean no school, no graduation, no wedding, no Christmas, no future for the youth.”

The president also thanked Vice-President Mike Pence and his own children, Donald Jr, Eric, Ivanka and Tiffany, for their work on the campaign trail.  

“No matter what happens tomorrow, I am proud of you all. But if we don’t win, I will never speak to them again,” he joked at the end.