Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Gastonia, North Carolina on Saturday.Chris Carlson/AP

At a rally on Saturday in Gastonia, North Carolina, Donald Trump thanked God for an October jobs report that showed a slowdown in job growth due to the recent hurricane that decimated the western part of the state.

“How good was that?” Trump asked the crowd. “Getting those numbers four days before the vote was…” Trump saidceasing Then he stopped and looked up, presumably to God, to whom he said, “Thank you very much, sir. Thank you.”

Bureau of Labor Statistics reported On Friday, the US economy added just 12,000 jobs in October. Acting Labor Secretary Julie Su attributed the slow growth to “significant impacts from hurricanes and strike activity.” This is a reference to Hurricanes Helene and Milton and is ongoing strike by Boeing machinists. Noting that the unemployment rate remains at 4.1 percent and inflation is falling, Su said the jobs report “reflects an atypical month rather than a change in the broader economic outlook.”

Trump’s comments about jobs weren’t the worst thing he said this weekend. He label journalists covering his “monsters” rally mocked trans people and called his opponent a product of political correctness and “stupid”, with a hard-to-miss racist and sexist subtext. He appear his racist rally in Madison Square Garden. On Friday night in Milwaukee, he inexplicably expressed his frustration with it audio problems of Feigning fellatio on a microphone stand.

But the reaction to the jobs report was revealing in the enthusiasm with which Trump accepted bad news for Americans as good news for him. To be fair, he described the numbers as “bad news” during his speech on Friday. But on Saturday in North Carolina, he he celebrated the political benefit he claimed to get from the new report — without mentioning the hurricane, which economists say helped slow hiring, cause catastrophic flooding and hundreds of deaths, including more than 100 in the state in which he spoke.

“I mean, how good is that if you happen to be running against the people who did it?” Trump, referring to the jobs report.

It wasn’t the only time he seemed to enjoy death. Elsewhere in the speech, Trump celebrated, as he generally does at his rallies, an increase in border crossings that followed leaving office. He has consistently made little bones about his belief that border issues are good for him. Earlier this year, Trump successfully lobbied DISCHARGE a bipartisan bill aimed at strengthening security at the Mexican border. Trump’s push was widely seen as an effort to stop Congress from trying to fix an issue he wanted to use to attack Democrats. Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), who was a key author of the bill, did said that critics of the measures argued, “We don’t want President Trump to lose this issue.”

Vice President Kamala Harris criticized Trump’s opposition to the measure, calling it’s evidence that “they’d rather solve a problem than solve a problem.”

Nothing in Trump’s remarks on Saturday dismissed that criticism.