In my opinion he was trying to push him into a physical fight.
It wouldn’t surprise me. The whole situation was strange. The restaurant were the event was at didn’t even open until 4 or 5. The event was 12:15 to 1:15. I drove by around 1. It looked like the event was outside. There was maybe 100 people there probably less. Not a good showing for a town of 29k! GO TRUMP!