The man with America's future in his hands: Trump makes a baby cry as he grins for the camera during Colorado rally photo

 

Donald Trump seemed to be appealing to an even younger demographic at a rally held in Colorado Springs - but the babies weren't buying it.

The Republican presidential nominee wrapped up his five-day, seven-state campaign swing in Colorado on Friday, at a rally held in Gallogly Events Center on the school's campus.

With two terrified babies in either arm, the grinning billionaire businessman posed for photos as his smiling fans swarmed behind him.

The little girl - who was donning a fetching pink bow - looked bewildered at best and seemed to be struggling to escape from Trump's clutch.

The young boy, meanwhile could not hide his horror and broke out into hysterical wails.

Though Trump appeared to be taking the baby's distress in his stride, his smile seemed to falter as the baby refused to stop crying.

In an attempt to placate him, Trump planted a kiss on the young boy's head - but to no avail.

The dodgy photo op may have been a failed attempt to seem more presidential. Indeed, American presidents pictured holding babies must be one of politic's hoariest traditions.

George W Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have all fallen for the quick fix photo op, designed to display their sensitive side.

But the Internet wasn't falling  for Trump's version, and many took to social media to suggest what captions may best apply.

One joked: 'They're not of voting age? What do you mean they're not of voting age?! Get these disgusting creatures off of me!'

Another said: 'We're gonna build this wail!'

While one tweeted: 'I can do the best, greatest baby cry you have ever heard. Believe me.;

And John Lonergan wrote: 'Trump Unveils Foreign Policy Team'

And its not just the babies that seem unconvinced of Trump's appeal, he also got a battering at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia last week.

Speaker after speaker - including some Republicans - said he lacked the temperament to be president. Clinton herself said in her acceptance speech that the election represented a 'moment of reckoning' for the country.

Earlier that day during his stump speech, Trump criticized Clinton sharply, and said he will no longer be 'nice' to her when his raucous audiences chant 'Lock her up!' at the mention of her name.

The slogan, which first appeared at the Republican National Convention last week, has become a battle cry among Trump supporters who believe Clinton should have been charged with a federal crime for mishandling classified documents on her now-infamous private email server.

He also got sidetracked by a couple of disputes from last year as he tried to rebut a Clinton campaign ad.

The ad uses a video clip from Trump's attack on Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly in protest of her questioning of him at a debate of Republican presidential contenders last August when he said afterward that blood was 'coming out of her eyes, coming out of her wherever.'

'I was talking about her nose,' Trump said in Colorado Springs. 'I wanted to get back on the issue of taxes' at the debate.

Trump also brought up the case of disabled New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski, whom Trump seemed to mock publicly in video used by the Clinton ad.

Trump said he was depicting the reporter groveling to him. 'I didn't know he was disabled. I didn't know it at all. I had no idea,' he said.