A week out from Election Day, former President Donald Trump on Tuesday unleashed a barrage of familiar attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris during an event at his Mar-a-Lago Club.

The event was billed by the Trump campaign as a press conference, but the Republican nominee fielded no questions from reporters after he, along with a handful of guests, spoke to his supporters for nearly an hour.

Trump slammed Harris on immigration, inflation, the U.S. withdrawal from the Afghanistan war and other issues.

“We're going to talk about the real character of Kamala, a person who has no remorse for the anguish she's inflicted upon families all across America,” Trump said. 

He accused the vice president of running a “campaign of hate,” said she is “aiding and abetting the cartels” and dismissed any economic accomplishments under President Joe Biden and Harris as a “fake economy.”

Trump did not address the crude and racist insults made by speakers at his rally Sunday in New York, including by a comedian who called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage.” Trump’s campaign has tried to disavow the joke, and both Democrats and Republicans have condemned the attempt at humor.

The former president only spoke briefly about the rally. He pushed back on it being compared to a 1939 Nazi rally also held at Madison Square Garden.

“How terrible to say, right?” Trump said. “Because, you know, they've used Madison Square Garden many times. Many people have used it. But nobody's ever had a crowd like that.”

He called the rally a “love fest.”

The comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, also made derogatory remarks about Latinos, Blacks, Jews and Palestinians. And other speakers made incendiary comments. Trump's childhood friend David Rem referred to Harris as "the Antichrist" and "the devil." Businessman Grant Cardone told the crowd that Harris "and her pimp handlers will destroy our country."

“That was love in the room, and it was love for our country,” Trump said Tuesday.

The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s Tuesday event.

In attacking Harris on border security, the former president made a series of false and misleading claims. He repeated widely debunked accusations about the government's response to Hurricane Helene in North Carolina. He also claimed to be leading Harris in early voting in all seven swing states despite votes not yet being counted.

In one of the rare moments when Trump was not criticizing Harris, he announced a plan to pay restitution to the families of victims of crimes committed by migrants, paid for by assets seized from criminal gangs and drug cartels. He did not go into further detail.

Trump brought out a trio of guests to help him hammer home his points.

Tammy Nobles, whose 20-year-old daughter, Kayla Hamilton, was killed by an undocumented Salvadorian migrant inside her Maryland home in 2022, said the Biden-Harris administration did not do its job.  

“If they would have done their job, made that one phone call to El Salvador, my daughter would still be alive today,” she said.

Michael Koppy, who owns a chain of dry cleaners in South Florida, described how high inflation forced his business to pause expansion plans and how he partnered with other dry-cleaning businesses to help them stay afloat. 

“Seems not too long ago, just a few years, the customer and us, the small-business owner, we were able to keep up with inflation,” Koppy said. “There were resources available to us for expansion, or if you had a bad month, if there was something you needed to make up for, it seemed like the support was there. And now, just a few short years later, it seems like all of those resources have dried up.”

And Christy Shamblin, whose daughter-in-law, Marine Corps Sgt. Nicole Gee, was killed in a 2021 suicide bombing during the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, said Trump is the best candidate to deal with foreign adversaries.

“President Trump demonstrates peace through strength,” she said. “I know what he told the Taliban when he was negotiating with them because I've made it my business to know. And what he said to them when he was negotiating with Taliban, he said, ‘I will kill you if you harm one hair on one head of an American.’” 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.