Trump walked around the stage at Huntington Place during the lengthy and awkward interlude, as the crowd alternated chants of "Trump" and "U.S.A."

DETROIT – Former President Donald Trump held a campaign rally Friday at Huntington Place in Detroit. Supporters held up campaign signs reading “Make Detroit Great Again.” “Detroit has such great potential, but Kamala and the democrats have been wreaking havoc on it,” Trump said.

The GOP nominee was in the middle of a riff about the economy in Michigan's largest city when his microphone cut out - for about 18 minutes.

When his microphone when silent, Trump paced around the stage while the audience did the wave and chanted "fight, fight, fight."

The greeting came after a 17-minute audio failure that left the former president unable to communicate with the audience that gathered to hear him speak Friday night in Detroit, at a rally in one of the nation’s largest swing states.

Former President Trump said he would not pay the company that rented his campaign equipment after his microphone went silent for about 20 minutes at a rally in Detroit. Trump was in the midst of speaking about his tariff policy at the event on Friday,