Trump tells Iowans AOC and Democrats ‘want to kill our cows’: ‘That means you’ll be next’

President also mocks ‘sleepy’ Joe Biden and ‘crazy’ Bernie Sanders

Donald Trump made a wild claim before a packed rally in the rural heartland state of Iowa, alleging that Democrats including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, wanted to kill cows and “that means you’re next”.

During a campaign rally day before Democrats hold their first vote of the 2020 political cycle, the president launched in a blistering attack on his political rivals.

Yet he went even further, telling the audience in which agriculture is a crucial aspect of the economy and community, that Democrats wanted to kill cows

“During this campaign season, the good people of Iowa have had a front-row seat to the lunacy and the madness of the totally sick left,” Mr Trump said.

As he often does at his rallies, Mr Trump name-dropped the Green New Deal, a plan introduced by the New York congresswoman that calls for a drastic drop in greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels to curb global warming.

But he ratcheted up his fear-mongering of the deal on Thursday, warning that Democrats would go after people after they get rid of cows. The plan does not call for getting rid of cows.

“The Green New Deal, which would crush our farms, destroy our wonderful cows. They want to kill our cows. You know why, right? You know why?” he asked, laughing.

“Don’t say it. They want to kill our cows. That means you’re next.”

While deriding Democrats and their ideas, he bragged of his own policies saying, “I think I’m the smartest person.”

Trump also talked up the new U.S. trade agreement with Canada and Mexico in an effort to win over Iowa farmers caught up in his tariff wars and take the focus off his impeachment trial in Washington.

“You’re going to have to get bigger tractors and a hell of a lot more land,” Mr Trump told a packed house at the city’s Drake University.

Additional reporting by Associated Press