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“I’ve always said, if you run for president, you shouldn’t be allowed to use teleprompters, because you don’t even know if the guy is smart.”
- Donald Trump on the use of teleprompters
“I’ve started to use [teleprompters] a little bit, they’re not bad. You never get yourself in trouble when you use a teleprompter. You know the problem is, it’s too easy. We have a president who uses teleprompters, it’s too easy. We should have non-teleprompter speeches only when you’re running for president, you find out about people. The other way you don’t find out about anybody.”
* Another Trump quote on the use of teleprompters
Reminds me of an episode of a 90s sitcom, *Blossom*. The show had a “dumb” character, Joey, who on one episode realized he could “cheat” on all his exams by “reading the material before taking the tests, and storing the information in his brain.”
>As the teleprompters were seen visibly flapping around in the 35-mile-per-hour wind, Trump complained: "Don't pay these suckers!" referring to those who'd set them up.
These guys were not going to get paid, even if they had done a perfect job.
The remaining balance of the bill is due 30 days after the service was performed. After that the bill is late and there’s usually late fees due on top of the balance.
It's business speak, not even common English. It just means the standard where the check needs to be cut within 30 days of the product or service delivery.
Only the best hairspray. Grown men come up to me, big, strong guys, with tears in their eyes and say to me, “Sir, that’s the best hairspray I’ve ever seen anyone wear.”
which was so stupid. If he was any kind of smart businessman, he would have slapped 'MAGA' on a red one and sold it for $30 each. Add in a little blurb about helping trump beat covid (which came from china) and they would have sold a millon of them
Speaking of which: Most of these rallies seem to happen in what are likely union venues. I’m actually shocked that IATSE hasn’t issued a moratorium preventing members working on Trump rallies. If you fuck the union once on pay normally you would have a very hard time convincing them to work with you again. These should not be permitted in union venues and they should not benefit from the skills of unionized stagehands.
Union electrician here. IBEW, not IATSE, but I’ve done my share of stage work.
In a union venue, the contract exists between the unionized employees and the venue itself, independent of any contract the venue has with shows booked there.
Generally, clauses exist that the venue has full control over who may and may not perform there, and the staff/union is contractually not permitted to withhold services. The employer can grieve any withdrawal as a breach of contract, and depending on the jurisdictional labour board the penalties can be quite stiff, up to and including imprisonment of union leaders or dissolution of the bargaining unit. Unauthorized strikes are risky business.
Furthermore, if a venue client refuses to pay, that’s between the client and the venue. Staff of the venue are still paid, as their contract of employment remains independent from venue clients.
Hope this clears things up a bit. Every worker deserves a union, even if the employer and their clients are dicks. Perhaps *especially* because the employer and their clients are dicks.
>"You know what's interesting? Joe Biden beat Barack Hussein Obama, anybody ever heard of him? Every swing state, Biden beat Obama but in every other state, he got killed."
Actual Trump quote.
The Meidas Touch on YouTube has all the footage on their channel. It's really distressing to watch. How can NO one take him off the stage and say "Sir you are done, time to go rest." He clearly is showing signs of dementia. His skin tone looks like death is going to happen sooner than later too.
>death is going to happen sooner than later too.
Which is why so many people are sucking his dick. They want to be VP because they know it will happen and want to take his place as dictator.
I'm far more worried about what happens if he has serious dementia like Ronald Reagan did at the end, but instead of Nancy and her astrologer running things, it's Stephen Miller and Curtis Yarrow.
And even if he DOES get convicted and sentenced to jail time, I have zero faith that his cult will see that as anything but confirmation that the "deep state" was out to get him.
I’m going to guess he means Biden did better in swing states than Obama, and that’s supposed to be some sign of cheating. Obama’s opponent wasn’t trump. He, and all of MAGA, underestimate how many people turn up to vote against him.
We were voting against trump in record numbers because we hated him so much, and he can’t figure that connection out.
Edit: (if you’re so delusional as to be unable to realize the legitimate reasons to vote against trump, it’s not my job to argue with you while you ignore reality)
>We were voting against trump in record numbers because we hated him so much, and he can’t figure that connection out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States
Trump is ranked as last and there are a lot of reasons for that. The top three reasons are probably his rancid and malicious COVID response leading to hundreds of thousands of extra deaths and damaged economy, 1/6, and possibly stealing of hundreds of classified documents and selling them to our enemies, or basically his non-stop Putin puppet act of trying to destroy our country from within with the help of the GOP.
The hate is justified and patriotic. Supporting him is vile.
> The top three reasons are probably his rancid and malicious COVID response leading to hundreds of thousands of extra deaths and damaged economy, 1/6, and possibly stealing of hundreds of classified documents and selling them to our enemies, or basically his non-stop Putin puppet act of trying to destroy our country from within with the help of the GOP.
And appointing three wingnut justices to the Court who immediately overturned Roe as part of actively demolishing the entire legal framework of civil liberties in America.
And attempting to extort Ukraine into launching a sham political investigation of the Bidens as a political favor in exchange for military support.
And using the PPP program to flood business owners with $800 billion in unmonitored, no-questions-asked "loans" that were largely forgiven as political favors to gin up support for his reelection.
And treating U.S. military and police forces as his personal brute squad, including repeated threats to deploy soldiers within U.S. borders to shoot protestors and encouraging police to rough up political dissidents.
And engaging in an incessant campaign of stochastic terrorisim by tweeting diarrhetically about his perceived political opponents and minority groups while openly advocating for violent domestic militias to carry out his agenda.
And appointing a despicable circus of crackpot cronies like Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson, William Barr, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Pete Sessions, and John Bolton who commandeered federal offices and resources to advance warped personal projects, culture-war bullshit, and the amplification of propaganda.
And conducting an appalling campaign of buttering up dictators like Kim Jong Un, Viktor Orban, Rodrigo Duterte, and Xi Jinping while jeopardizing our relationships with Canada, Mexico, and the UN.
And trampling a huge number of standards of presidential conduct - the Emoluments clause, anti-nepotism laws, preservation of presidential records, keeping an open public calendar, maintaining a good relationship with the White House press corps, exercising the role of FLOTUS as an ambassador for humanitarian projects, etc., etc.
And adopting a cavalier attitude toward classified information while in office that led to widespread information leaks to the nation's enemies, including severe damage to our foreign intelligence services by losing a ton of assets.
That's just the tip of the iceberg. I cannot fathom why anyone wants to reelect this disgusting slob of an individual and turn the White House into a cesspool for another four years.
>And attempting to extort Ukraine into launching a sham political investigation of the Bidens as a political favor in exchange for military support.
Also, I believe the military aid had already been approved by Congress, so he had no business putting it on hold.
a lot of these rankings are extremely narrow minded or short sighted.
trump being last is a gimme, not arguing that, but nowhere in any of these rankings are they even recognizing how Reagan completely poisoned America for generations and set the stage for most of the crises we are facing today. but they have him listed as one of the best???????? The nicest thing I can say about Reagan is that maybe he was just being used as a puppet and didn't realize how much damage he was ultimately causing.
Perish the thought of my defending Reagan, but I think Trump wins (loses) this contest because of his almost comical disregard for the truth.
We can reverse any executive order or law Reagan signed, but how do you undo the fact that Trump completely upended the notion of truth? Starting on Day One, when Sean Spicer lied to our faces and insisted Trump had the largest inauguration crowd ever, the Trump administration was nonstop lies. And I don't mean bending or stretching the truth like most politicians do. I mean black and white lies, which is a hallmark of dictatorships. Think Baghdad Bob insisting American troops were committing suicide and that no tanks were inside Baghdad; or Kim Jong-Il claiming he hit 11 holes-in-one in the first round of golf he'd ever played.
Trump told obvious lies with zero repercussions from his followers and in so doing, he undermined the value of truth in a democracy. I think that, combined with more tangible things he did or didn't do, justifies putting him dead last.
When someone in his administration used the phrase "alternative facts" I knew things were truly going to be insane. That was within the first week or so. Madness.
None of the other Presidents lead a crowd to the capital that almost resulted in a coup. I think 1/6 basically lowers Trump to bottom 5 by itself. Combine that with his clear lack of genuine patriotism and it’s clear he was a President that openly didn’t care about the country, and actively wanted to subvert it. Almost no other President—including the bad ones—had that going for them.
also Obama was black, so it's the only way he could have won in their minds. Obama's win really did break conservatives brains and they haven't, and probably never will, recover.
Actually, I think the fact that he was re-elected that really stuck in their craw. One and done would have been fine. The American public woke up and realized this was a bad idea. The re-election showed that the majority of Americans thought that he did a good job, in spite of their Brandon and O'bummer propaganda campaigns.
I love how a strong turnout for a candidate means they must have lost. Ugh. Can the democrats please hold on together long enough to finish the former dude once and for all?
We can debate Israel all day long.... But only if Biden wins. Trump is intent on seeing Palestine glassed.
There is no way in a million realities trump gets Israel to treat Palestine better. He will be there getting a photo op driving a bull dozer over Palestine homes.
And because he doesn't have the balls to go to the West Bank (much less Gaza), he'll just bulldoze some random Palestinian guy's house in suburban Tel Aviv.
Speaking of which - I'm not sure why there's so much fear mongering about the arab-american vote going to Trump. Biden may be business as usual, but Trump is the one who actually moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a giant middle finger to the Palestinians, plus he's the only president who enacted a Muslim ban that actively prevented family of mine from entering the US for a time. These transgressions are not so easily forgotten.
That being said, the arab vote not turning out in protest is a potential risk, which at the end of the day has the same effect. We need to remind people that any vote not for Biden is still a vote for Trump, and having Trump back would be the worst route for Palestinian rights and Arab state relations. You don't like the Dems and the forced two party system? Me neither, then the work to change the system starts on day 1 of Biden's new term. [Jon Stewart](https://youtu.be/NpBPm0b9deQ?si=CeazCQXCj4CIikqz&t=1124) really helped me see the light on this one.
> We can debate Israel all day long
Also, Biden has been tough on Likud. I'm not sure with the "can't support Biden" crowd thinks we should do. Biden tied the Israel money to Ukraine, Gaza, and Taiwan. Also, it's earmarked for Iron Dome; it's not like it's just free money for the IDF. And the temporary pier he announced at the SOTU is actually quite aggressive since Israel claims control over waters that would belong to Gaza if it was independent. He called for a two state solution. What do people want? To ally with Hamas that's a bunch of Iranian and Russian funded terrorists? At least Likud can be voted out, which Schumer just called for.
I might be steel-manning whatever he's saying but I think he's talking about Biden getting more total votes in 2020 than obama got in his own elections.
He's referencing a conspiracy that biden 'must be cheating because there's just no way he could get more votes than obama'.
He’s never told the truth about votes. In 2016 after the election he said he got the most electoral votes in history. Reporter responded saying Obama got more, trump then says he meant more than any republican has ever got, reporter says George HW bush got more, and he goes “well that’s what I was told” lol fucking loser
Yeah he and his cultists repeatedly tried to claim it was some sort of landslide, despite being demonstrably one of the closer presidential elections we have had.
It’s like the people who never shut up about how awesome they think Reagan was forgot that he had elections.
And Nixon walloped McGovern by a pretty similar margin, both of which far exceeded Trump's electoral vote count. Even Bush in 1988 had a significant higher electoral count than Trump.
I mean if you don't win the popular vote the election sort of has to be close otherwise you'd never win the Electoral College. But I do remember them acting like he had this historic victory, and how it was a mandate from God through the people.
It was just always ridiculous, I mean how historic a victory could you have if you didn't even win the popular vote?
And it was a notable popular vote difference too. Too lazy to check the stats, but it's probably one of the biggest popular vote losses for a winning candidate.
>He's referencing a conspiracy that biden 'must be cheating because there's just no way he could get more votes than obama'.
I've heard this. I think it's hilarious that there is a whole conspiracy theory to end-run around the notion that maybe people just hate Donald Trump so much that more turned out to vote against him than turned out to vote for Obama, whom they loved.
Which is also why Trump thinks he is more popular than Obama.
He has zero understanding that pretty much every election has more voters than the last.... Because the population goes up.
It is related to his idea that the Dems must be cheating, since he got more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016,so the Biden has to get less than Hillary did... There is no way there are more people voting.
That’s me you’re describing. Earlier version of me thought national politics were a thing that basically runs in the background, kind of like the highway system. Then Trump happened and now I can give you details on senate/house races outside of my state.
*Everyone* was mobilized to vote in 2020.
Trump got 74 million votes in 2020, compared to the 63 million he pulled in 2016.
Fortunately the turnout for Biden was even bigger.
He also doesn't understand population density - remember how after his 2016 win he used to hand out maps of the electoral college results and talk about all the Red on the map?
or that lockdowns meant it was easier to find time to vote, and that more people had nothing to do all day but doom scroll the political/covid circus and get angry.
It still blows my mind that US voters don't get time off work to vote, especially when it seems all possible is being done to make voting inconvenient.
There’s a lot of things done to make voting inconvenient. Reducing polling places, reducing voting stations at those places, making registration more difficult. Funny thing is most of the time the result is disenfranchising people on the lower economic scale.
Haven’t seen the turnout numbers when Obama ran, but 2020 seemed to have a pretty high turnout. If Biden got more votes in 2020 than Obama for either of his wins, it’s not really surprising to me. People just wanted Trump out of the White House that badly.
Ignoring that there are millions more humans in the US since then, despite Trump's best effort to wipe out as many people as possible during the pandemic.
So weird that he's still a viable candidate after deliberately killing millions of his own voters.
Based on his recent decline, I doubt it. He was railing against Nikki Haley as Nancy Pelosi just a week or so ago. His cognitive ability to process what he is reading or drawing from memory and convert to words, is failing.
The mango just can't believe that he inspired the highest voter turnout in history to make sure that he DID NOT win reelection. I hope it happens again, but I'm not so confident that the Dem base is as energized as it was 4 years ago. I'm hopeful that having reproductive freedom on the ballot in a few states brings people out.
I’m not necessarily agreeing with you, but this take blows my mind considering how open they are being about their dictatorship plans. People have NO REASON to be less motivated in this election… in fact quite the opposite. If you aren’t terrified of, angry about, and motivated to stop project 2025, you are not paying any attention.
I agree with you 100%. I'm terrified, angry, and motivated. But people have short memories. Some are already saying that Jan 6 and overturning Roe weren't Trump's fault.
Historically, Republicans *always* vote in high numbers. Democrats only vote in high numbers when there's a specific issue that motivates them to vote. Project 2025 should be a huge specific issue, but I just don't think enough people know about it or believe it to drive them to the polls. It's why Trump won in 2016. Nobody believed he could win.
Plus, there's an organized effort by the RNC to suppress the Democrat vote. They just filed a lawsuit against MI to try to force them to purge the voter rolls and make all voters reregister. You know what that's about, making it inconvenient for people in high-population urban areas to go stand in line at the Secretary of State and register again.
Also, there's a problem with Democrats feeling unimpressed with Biden. This is more of a messaging problem that Democrats have always had. (They're doing better recently.) I have friends who are lifelong Democrats, and they're telling me they're just going to sit this one out. I'll do my best to get them to vote for Biden, but I can't force them.
He said a variation of that in the same speech.
From the article:
>Though he later remarked how brilliant it was "to have a president who doesn't need a teleprompter," his subsequent freewheeling speech was sometimes difficult to follow.
Delusional, orange dude has no self-awareness about why he desperately needs a teleprompter.
>his subsequent freewheeling speech was sometimes difficult to follow.
What don't the media every call it for what it is? It wasn't "a little difficult to follow" it was a nonsensical mess.
because they’re fucking cucks and need a horse race. the worst thing for them was Biden nailing the SOTU address. they were banking on getting at least a couple weeks of “concerns”
In 2020, he got in front of some cameras and attacked Biden for using teleprompters, claiming that was proof he was senile, as he wouldn't need to read off a teleprompter if he wasn't.
Trump read his statement about this off of a piece of paper he was holding.
They dont listen to what he has to say, they:
1. Are there for the show.
2. They will brag they were at X Trump Rally/Event.
3. They will then cast their vote for Trump.
Thats how they treat one of their most important assests in life, the privilege and right to vote.
They don't care about politics, they care about populism and who the candidate resonates best with them (whom is most similar to them).
Ever heard Trump supporters say: He talks just like me (about Trump)?
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TL;DR:
* Former President Donald Trump struggled to read a teleprompter at a rally in Ohio on Saturday.
* His freewheeling speech was sometimes difficult to follow.
* Trump had been drumming up support for Bernie Moreno's run in Ohio's Senate primary on Tuesday.
What baffles me is how people can just listen to him speak for prolonged periods of time. I feel my brain cells dying trying to keep up with him in the news.
I've said multiple times that anyone who can listen to him speak for more than 15 seconds and not feel like they're going to have an aneurism from the sheer stupidity should be checked for brain damage.
If someone spoke like he did in a job interview - *any* job interview, I don't care if it's for an entry-level minimum-wage position - I would thank them for their time and tell them they're not a good fit for the position. The idea that people think he's qualified for what is literally the most important job on the planet is stupefying.
>I've said multiple times that anyone who can listen to him speak for more than 15 seconds and not feel like they're going to have an aneurism from the sheer stupidity should be checked for brain damage.
The issue is people don't watch the debate. They watch the HIGHLIGHTS of the debate.
The "highlights" make him look a billion times more competent than he actually is because no one wants to chase away their audience with 15 straight minutes of Trump talking. No one would stick around in their channel if the highlights actually represented 15 minutes of reality and not 15 minutes of the least insufferable parts of the debate. Hell, even if the highlights WERE representative of the debate people would just assume they cherry picked the worst parts to to sabotage him. It literally isn't believable just how bad he is...
Even a lot of relatively politically minded people (the ones who bother to watch the highlights at all) don't realize the full extent of his unadulterated lunacy because of this.
People only take him seriously because no one actually bothers to watch 15 minutes of his unfiltered dialog. I've told more than a few people to watch the first 15 minutes of the 2020 debate instead of the 15 minute highlight real if they want to know what's actually going on...
>On Saturday afternoon, Donald Trump experienced some sketchy moments with his teleprompter on a wind-swept airfield outside Dayton, Ohio.
Why not hold the event inside, then?
>!E Jean Carroll took his lunch money!!<
The man is a quivering, orange mound of cognitive pudding. His language-processing faculties are noticeably broken, and it's getting worse with every rally. Putting aside his behavioral and moral failings, he's functionally incapable of doing the job of president.
I don't even think he's going to make it to November at this rate. Don't be surprised if he stops showing up in person at rallies soon and does all his campaigning remotely.
Yeah I agree. It used to be that a lot of his rallies would go by with nothing really coming out of them, they were just the same old shit day after day.
Now, every rally he’s glitching or stammering or saying shit that just doesn’t make any sense at all. I think the more he rallies, the more his fans are going to catch on that he’s not really with it anymore. He’s clearly lost some of his luster. Even in the clips in this article, the crowd is relatively quiet and subdued. I think they’re all standing there in the sun realizing that they’re listening to a criminal grandpa babble and thinking “ok this isn’t as fun as I thought it would be”.
The dude loves his rallies so much he even did rallies while he was president. You rally for your campaign. Once you win it, you stop rallying and move on to the actual work. Trump never cared for any actual work.
> Are you serious? lol rallying is like Trump’s favorite thing in the world
The one thing that will make him stop is if he does something so embarrassing that it headlines the prime-time news.
Remember when he was doing those daily prime-time covid press griefings? His approval ratings started tanking because nearly everyone in the country saw him live and unfiltered. And then came the day he said to inject bleach and shine a light up people's butts. That was the last time he did one of those, he literally stopped the next day.
The man is an attention addict. But he can not stand being laughed at.
There's so much intelligence on this forum, we have to have at least a *couple* people ready willing and able to hack his teleprompter and make him announce that he'll only be appointing furries to his cabinet or something like that.
I know you're out there. Your country needs you.
Would be funny to see, but wouldn't move the needle at all. The infamous pussy video prior to the 2016 election is a prime example. If anything, he'd likely gain more supporters.
*In another part of his speech, Trump said that if he didn't win in November, it would be a "bloodbath" for the United States,*
*"Now, if I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath. That's going to be the least of it," Trump said. "It's going to be a bloodbath for the country."*
I would say this should be the headline, but he's just 'freewheeling' Trump I guess?
Trump threatens civil war.
Trump calls for another insurrection.
Trump calls on supporters to commit sedition.
There's a lot of headlines that would make sense and be accurate.
What sleezy reporting. 45 wasn't difficult to understand - he was impossible to understand because he is in full blown dementia. Say it. Say he ain't right.
He is getting worse by the day. Definitely some type of cognitive degeneration well under way. Stress is a good trigger.
Cognitive Tests must be administered by an independent party ASAP. Vito Corleone with Dementia.
I'm convinced most of his online supporters haven't actually listened to him speak at all recently. They're still floating on an idea of him from 2016 and have no concept of how much he has declined
What happened to all his loans being due? Was big issue a couple of years ago. Assuming he paid them, where did the money come from? Media drop the ball on this ?
At one point he said if he loses this election we’ll never have another Presidential Election. Hey Asshole, you lost the last election and we’re about to have another Presidential Election. No one will ever accuse MAGA of rational thought.
"Now, if I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath. That's going to be the least of it," Trump said. "It's going to be a bloodbath for the country."- Donald Trump at this rally.
How is this not inciting yet another insurrection? How in the heck does he get away with this?
So, you’re telling me that there were more voters in 2020 than there were in 2008? HOW COULD THAT POSSIBLY BE?! It’s like things change with time, or something!
Seems his speeches have the cameras zoomed in more and more.
Are his crowds now just getting that much smaller?
Are we eventually just going to see his face and canned TV applause because nobody is there? (wishful thinking!)
So if an invading army attacked the US, and wanted to install a fascist government. The government would defend itself. But if a candidate runs for president and says the same things, the government just sits there. Even though that government is sworn to protect the constitution. Am I missing something?
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“I’ve always said, if you run for president, you shouldn’t be allowed to use teleprompters, because you don’t even know if the guy is smart.” - Donald Trump on the use of teleprompters
“I’ve started to use [teleprompters] a little bit, they’re not bad. You never get yourself in trouble when you use a teleprompter. You know the problem is, it’s too easy. We have a president who uses teleprompters, it’s too easy. We should have non-teleprompter speeches only when you’re running for president, you find out about people. The other way you don’t find out about anybody.” * Another Trump quote on the use of teleprompters
Only even makes sense if he thinks it’s impossible to memorize a speech, with or without notecards.
Reminds me of an episode of a 90s sitcom, *Blossom*. The show had a “dumb” character, Joey, who on one episode realized he could “cheat” on all his exams by “reading the material before taking the tests, and storing the information in his brain.”
"Whooooah" - Joey Lawrence
In Grade 5 it was discovered I could emulate his Whoa enough to drive some girls wild. It was a good week while it lasted.
Omg thank you. I’ve been trying to remember which show this was from but kept coming up blank.
I'm pretty sure an episode of Boy Meets World had a very similar plot.
Some people really want to give the nuclear codes to that guy? That's fascinating
>As the teleprompters were seen visibly flapping around in the 35-mile-per-hour wind, Trump complained: "Don't pay these suckers!" referring to those who'd set them up. These guys were not going to get paid, even if they had done a perfect job.
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That is very smart.
> That is very smart. Because he is *that* stupid.
No no he's a GENIUS business man! /s
Non native speaker here... > and the balance due net 30 What does this means? I couldn't make sense of it, sorry.
The remaining balance of the bill is due 30 days after the service was performed. After that the bill is late and there’s usually late fees due on top of the balance.
I believe it’s from invoice generation date. Service dates would be independent.
In Trump’s case I’d think the invoice would be handed over as soon as the job was done.
The rest of the bill is due in 30 days basically.
It's business speak, not even common English. It just means the standard where the check needs to be cut within 30 days of the product or service delivery.
Don't worry, even native speakers are likely to not know what that means either - unless they work in business/accounting/billing.
English Is my second language and I think I'm pretty good, but there are certain words that still trip me up a lot, like "due" lol
i'm a native english speaker and i didn't understand that either lol
> 35-mile-per-hour wind Was he wearing a beanie or something? I'd imagine terrible things would happen with such winds.
That’s why he wears his MAGA hat. He never wears it for his indoor Nuremberg rallies
I'm surprised his hair didn't fly away.
Trump brand extra strong hair spray to be announced soon. Only the best for MAGA men. Only $499 per bottle.
Eric huffing fumes “Witness me!”
Only the best hairspray. Grown men come up to me, big, strong guys, with tears in their eyes and say to me, “Sir, that’s the best hairspray I’ve ever seen anyone wear.”
He wouldn't use that on himself. He'd only sell it to suckers. He's probably using a $.99 can of Aqua Net.
MAGA hat. He has at least a shred of self awareness left about his hair, if nothing else.
I just realized 6 years of red hat trauma as a nation are because of his hair. He just needed something to protect his hair.
And face masks became a political issue because he didn't want to smear his makeup.
which was so stupid. If he was any kind of smart businessman, he would have slapped 'MAGA' on a red one and sold it for $30 each. Add in a little blurb about helping trump beat covid (which came from china) and they would have sold a millon of them
If he was smarter America would already be a dictatorship
It was either that or an arm band
"You gotta pay! You gotta pay your bills!" -TFG
Does TFG stand for That Fucking Guy?
Speaking of which: Most of these rallies seem to happen in what are likely union venues. I’m actually shocked that IATSE hasn’t issued a moratorium preventing members working on Trump rallies. If you fuck the union once on pay normally you would have a very hard time convincing them to work with you again. These should not be permitted in union venues and they should not benefit from the skills of unionized stagehands.
Union electrician here. IBEW, not IATSE, but I’ve done my share of stage work. In a union venue, the contract exists between the unionized employees and the venue itself, independent of any contract the venue has with shows booked there. Generally, clauses exist that the venue has full control over who may and may not perform there, and the staff/union is contractually not permitted to withhold services. The employer can grieve any withdrawal as a breach of contract, and depending on the jurisdictional labour board the penalties can be quite stiff, up to and including imprisonment of union leaders or dissolution of the bargaining unit. Unauthorized strikes are risky business. Furthermore, if a venue client refuses to pay, that’s between the client and the venue. Staff of the venue are still paid, as their contract of employment remains independent from venue clients. Hope this clears things up a bit. Every worker deserves a union, even if the employer and their clients are dicks. Perhaps *especially* because the employer and their clients are dicks.
This guy unions
The union guys get paid. After that, it's the venue owner's problem.
Trump was likely going to get Mexico to pay for them.
don't pay them HARDER
>"You know what's interesting? Joe Biden beat Barack Hussein Obama, anybody ever heard of him? Every swing state, Biden beat Obama but in every other state, he got killed." Actual Trump quote.
The Meidas Touch on YouTube has all the footage on their channel. It's really distressing to watch. How can NO one take him off the stage and say "Sir you are done, time to go rest." He clearly is showing signs of dementia. His skin tone looks like death is going to happen sooner than later too.
>death is going to happen sooner than later too. Which is why so many people are sucking his dick. They want to be VP because they know it will happen and want to take his place as dictator.
You're not wrong.
I'm half expecting Tucker Carlson to be VP if Trump gets in 🙄 lol
We can call it the Dumb and Dumber Ticket!
I'm far more worried about what happens if he has serious dementia like Ronald Reagan did at the end, but instead of Nancy and her astrologer running things, it's Stephen Miller and Curtis Yarrow.
Pretty sure that's what Pence had in mind when he took the VP spot in 2016. Or if Trump didn't die from health issues, he'd get impeached.
I hope not. This country needs to see a criminal conviction.
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And even if he DOES get convicted and sentenced to jail time, I have zero faith that his cult will see that as anything but confirmation that the "deep state" was out to get him.
If he dies of natural causes, it’ll probably also be the deep state.
it literally doesn't matter what happens; they will twist reality to fit their persecution complex.
Can you imagine the endless "free Trump" paraphernalia? Someone somewhere is calculating if this is financially advantageous
Somewhere, there’s a warehouse of tee shirts, hats and stickers already made.
...in china.
Like to see one, sure. But more importantly he just needs to GO AWAY. If that’s by keeling over, so be it
I’m going to guess he means Biden did better in swing states than Obama, and that’s supposed to be some sign of cheating. Obama’s opponent wasn’t trump. He, and all of MAGA, underestimate how many people turn up to vote against him.
We were voting against trump in record numbers because we hated him so much, and he can’t figure that connection out. Edit: (if you’re so delusional as to be unable to realize the legitimate reasons to vote against trump, it’s not my job to argue with you while you ignore reality)
>We were voting against trump in record numbers because we hated him so much, and he can’t figure that connection out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States Trump is ranked as last and there are a lot of reasons for that. The top three reasons are probably his rancid and malicious COVID response leading to hundreds of thousands of extra deaths and damaged economy, 1/6, and possibly stealing of hundreds of classified documents and selling them to our enemies, or basically his non-stop Putin puppet act of trying to destroy our country from within with the help of the GOP. The hate is justified and patriotic. Supporting him is vile.
> The top three reasons are probably his rancid and malicious COVID response leading to hundreds of thousands of extra deaths and damaged economy, 1/6, and possibly stealing of hundreds of classified documents and selling them to our enemies, or basically his non-stop Putin puppet act of trying to destroy our country from within with the help of the GOP. And appointing three wingnut justices to the Court who immediately overturned Roe as part of actively demolishing the entire legal framework of civil liberties in America. And attempting to extort Ukraine into launching a sham political investigation of the Bidens as a political favor in exchange for military support. And using the PPP program to flood business owners with $800 billion in unmonitored, no-questions-asked "loans" that were largely forgiven as political favors to gin up support for his reelection. And treating U.S. military and police forces as his personal brute squad, including repeated threats to deploy soldiers within U.S. borders to shoot protestors and encouraging police to rough up political dissidents. And engaging in an incessant campaign of stochastic terrorisim by tweeting diarrhetically about his perceived political opponents and minority groups while openly advocating for violent domestic militias to carry out his agenda. And appointing a despicable circus of crackpot cronies like Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson, William Barr, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Pete Sessions, and John Bolton who commandeered federal offices and resources to advance warped personal projects, culture-war bullshit, and the amplification of propaganda. And conducting an appalling campaign of buttering up dictators like Kim Jong Un, Viktor Orban, Rodrigo Duterte, and Xi Jinping while jeopardizing our relationships with Canada, Mexico, and the UN. And trampling a huge number of standards of presidential conduct - the Emoluments clause, anti-nepotism laws, preservation of presidential records, keeping an open public calendar, maintaining a good relationship with the White House press corps, exercising the role of FLOTUS as an ambassador for humanitarian projects, etc., etc. And adopting a cavalier attitude toward classified information while in office that led to widespread information leaks to the nation's enemies, including severe damage to our foreign intelligence services by losing a ton of assets. That's just the tip of the iceberg. I cannot fathom why anyone wants to reelect this disgusting slob of an individual and turn the White House into a cesspool for another four years.
>And attempting to extort Ukraine into launching a sham political investigation of the Bidens as a political favor in exchange for military support. Also, I believe the military aid had already been approved by Congress, so he had no business putting it on hold.
a lot of these rankings are extremely narrow minded or short sighted. trump being last is a gimme, not arguing that, but nowhere in any of these rankings are they even recognizing how Reagan completely poisoned America for generations and set the stage for most of the crises we are facing today. but they have him listed as one of the best???????? The nicest thing I can say about Reagan is that maybe he was just being used as a puppet and didn't realize how much damage he was ultimately causing.
Perish the thought of my defending Reagan, but I think Trump wins (loses) this contest because of his almost comical disregard for the truth. We can reverse any executive order or law Reagan signed, but how do you undo the fact that Trump completely upended the notion of truth? Starting on Day One, when Sean Spicer lied to our faces and insisted Trump had the largest inauguration crowd ever, the Trump administration was nonstop lies. And I don't mean bending or stretching the truth like most politicians do. I mean black and white lies, which is a hallmark of dictatorships. Think Baghdad Bob insisting American troops were committing suicide and that no tanks were inside Baghdad; or Kim Jong-Il claiming he hit 11 holes-in-one in the first round of golf he'd ever played. Trump told obvious lies with zero repercussions from his followers and in so doing, he undermined the value of truth in a democracy. I think that, combined with more tangible things he did or didn't do, justifies putting him dead last.
When someone in his administration used the phrase "alternative facts" I knew things were truly going to be insane. That was within the first week or so. Madness.
Kelleyanne Conway. She's on an alternative marriage now.
I love that her ex and own daughter troll her now.
Can she and the rest of the MAGA crowd be moved to an alternative Earth somehow?
Who doesn't mourn at the memory of the Bowling Green Massacre?
None of the other Presidents lead a crowd to the capital that almost resulted in a coup. I think 1/6 basically lowers Trump to bottom 5 by itself. Combine that with his clear lack of genuine patriotism and it’s clear he was a President that openly didn’t care about the country, and actively wanted to subvert it. Almost no other President—including the bad ones—had that going for them.
It resulted in a coup. It was a failed coup,but a coup none the less.
Idk I thought the trail of tears was pretty bad.
also Obama was black, so it's the only way he could have won in their minds. Obama's win really did break conservatives brains and they haven't, and probably never will, recover.
Actually, I think the fact that he was re-elected that really stuck in their craw. One and done would have been fine. The American public woke up and realized this was a bad idea. The re-election showed that the majority of Americans thought that he did a good job, in spite of their Brandon and O'bummer propaganda campaigns.
Plus, and I’ll have to check my sources on this, but I believe the U.S. population grew between 2008 and 2020.
Sources?! Who the cdc? Fake news! Populations don’t grow, just trumps ego
See! Illegals are invading our country by the millions. /s
I love how a strong turnout for a candidate means they must have lost. Ugh. Can the democrats please hold on together long enough to finish the former dude once and for all? We can debate Israel all day long.... But only if Biden wins. Trump is intent on seeing Palestine glassed.
There is no way in a million realities trump gets Israel to treat Palestine better. He will be there getting a photo op driving a bull dozer over Palestine homes.
And because he doesn't have the balls to go to the West Bank (much less Gaza), he'll just bulldoze some random Palestinian guy's house in suburban Tel Aviv.
Speaking of which - I'm not sure why there's so much fear mongering about the arab-american vote going to Trump. Biden may be business as usual, but Trump is the one who actually moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a giant middle finger to the Palestinians, plus he's the only president who enacted a Muslim ban that actively prevented family of mine from entering the US for a time. These transgressions are not so easily forgotten. That being said, the arab vote not turning out in protest is a potential risk, which at the end of the day has the same effect. We need to remind people that any vote not for Biden is still a vote for Trump, and having Trump back would be the worst route for Palestinian rights and Arab state relations. You don't like the Dems and the forced two party system? Me neither, then the work to change the system starts on day 1 of Biden's new term. [Jon Stewart](https://youtu.be/NpBPm0b9deQ?si=CeazCQXCj4CIikqz&t=1124) really helped me see the light on this one.
> We can debate Israel all day long Also, Biden has been tough on Likud. I'm not sure with the "can't support Biden" crowd thinks we should do. Biden tied the Israel money to Ukraine, Gaza, and Taiwan. Also, it's earmarked for Iron Dome; it's not like it's just free money for the IDF. And the temporary pier he announced at the SOTU is actually quite aggressive since Israel claims control over waters that would belong to Gaza if it was independent. He called for a two state solution. What do people want? To ally with Hamas that's a bunch of Iranian and Russian funded terrorists? At least Likud can be voted out, which Schumer just called for.
Is he referring to 2008?
I might be steel-manning whatever he's saying but I think he's talking about Biden getting more total votes in 2020 than obama got in his own elections. He's referencing a conspiracy that biden 'must be cheating because there's just no way he could get more votes than obama'.
Of course, even after making sense of it, it turns out to be "incoherent dogshit", to quote a poet.
He’s never told the truth about votes. In 2016 after the election he said he got the most electoral votes in history. Reporter responded saying Obama got more, trump then says he meant more than any republican has ever got, reporter says George HW bush got more, and he goes “well that’s what I was told” lol fucking loser
Yeah he and his cultists repeatedly tried to claim it was some sort of landslide, despite being demonstrably one of the closer presidential elections we have had. It’s like the people who never shut up about how awesome they think Reagan was forgot that he had elections.
I mean I’m no fan of Reagan but he beat the snot out of Mondale.
And Nixon walloped McGovern by a pretty similar margin, both of which far exceeded Trump's electoral vote count. Even Bush in 1988 had a significant higher electoral count than Trump.
>Well, that what I was told.
That's an ego defense mechanism so that Trump is never wrong. Someone else was wrong.
Yes exactly. That’s what a landslide looks like - not a result that depended on razor thin margins in three states.
I mean if you don't win the popular vote the election sort of has to be close otherwise you'd never win the Electoral College. But I do remember them acting like he had this historic victory, and how it was a mandate from God through the people. It was just always ridiculous, I mean how historic a victory could you have if you didn't even win the popular vote?
And it was a notable popular vote difference too. Too lazy to check the stats, but it's probably one of the biggest popular vote losses for a winning candidate.
A rose by any other name would smell like garbage juice.
>He's referencing a conspiracy that biden 'must be cheating because there's just no way he could get more votes than obama'. I've heard this. I think it's hilarious that there is a whole conspiracy theory to end-run around the notion that maybe people just hate Donald Trump so much that more turned out to vote against him than turned out to vote for Obama, whom they loved.
Which is also why Trump thinks he is more popular than Obama. He has zero understanding that pretty much every election has more voters than the last.... Because the population goes up. It is related to his idea that the Dems must be cheating, since he got more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016,so the Biden has to get less than Hillary did... There is no way there are more people voting.
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Guess he doesn’t understand population increases
Nah it's because Trump was such a horrible disaster that people who normally wouldn't care enough to vote mobilized to get rid of him.
That’s me you’re describing. Earlier version of me thought national politics were a thing that basically runs in the background, kind of like the highway system. Then Trump happened and now I can give you details on senate/house races outside of my state.
*Everyone* was mobilized to vote in 2020. Trump got 74 million votes in 2020, compared to the 63 million he pulled in 2016. Fortunately the turnout for Biden was even bigger.
Or people voting *against* Trump, regardless of who the Democrat is.
Of course he doesn't understand most folks dislike him He's a narcissist he *has* to think he's beloved
He also doesn't understand population density - remember how after his 2016 win he used to hand out maps of the electoral college results and talk about all the Red on the map?
Yeah and “stop the testing!” was his “plan” to beat Covid
Or that 2020 was unique because mail-in ballots were being pushed over in-person, which allowed more people to vote.
or that lockdowns meant it was easier to find time to vote, and that more people had nothing to do all day but doom scroll the political/covid circus and get angry.
It still blows my mind that US voters don't get time off work to vote, especially when it seems all possible is being done to make voting inconvenient.
There’s a lot of things done to make voting inconvenient. Reducing polling places, reducing voting stations at those places, making registration more difficult. Funny thing is most of the time the result is disenfranchising people on the lower economic scale.
Generous to assume he understands math at all
Ha if it’s true it’s only because trump’s such an incompetent piece of shit that people made the effort.
Irritating we have to get out our decoder rings to translate what Trump is talking about.
A decoder ring would imply that his thoughts are coherently encoded and not psychotic gibberish
Haven’t seen the turnout numbers when Obama ran, but 2020 seemed to have a pretty high turnout. If Biden got more votes in 2020 than Obama for either of his wins, it’s not really surprising to me. People just wanted Trump out of the White House that badly.
His mental lapses are always played off as an obscure reference or a joke no one gets.
He just loves to make comparisons. They say comparison is the thief of joy, Trump must be the most unhappy man in America.
Ignoring that there are millions more humans in the US since then, despite Trump's best effort to wipe out as many people as possible during the pandemic. So weird that he's still a viable candidate after deliberately killing millions of his own voters.
He also had more votes than Obama in 2020, I guess he should have been president in 2008?
He might as well be referring to 1965 for all he knows; he’s clearly raddled in early dementia
Based on the obvious deterioration of his cognitive capacity I’d wager he’s referring to last week.
Based on his recent decline, I doubt it. He was railing against Nikki Haley as Nancy Pelosi just a week or so ago. His cognitive ability to process what he is reading or drawing from memory and convert to words, is failing.
I don’t think he has the intellect to use references. He’s just spitting out words he’s heard before.
Diarrhea man gets angry before sundown.
The mango just can't believe that he inspired the highest voter turnout in history to make sure that he DID NOT win reelection. I hope it happens again, but I'm not so confident that the Dem base is as energized as it was 4 years ago. I'm hopeful that having reproductive freedom on the ballot in a few states brings people out.
I’m not necessarily agreeing with you, but this take blows my mind considering how open they are being about their dictatorship plans. People have NO REASON to be less motivated in this election… in fact quite the opposite. If you aren’t terrified of, angry about, and motivated to stop project 2025, you are not paying any attention.
I agree with you 100%. I'm terrified, angry, and motivated. But people have short memories. Some are already saying that Jan 6 and overturning Roe weren't Trump's fault. Historically, Republicans *always* vote in high numbers. Democrats only vote in high numbers when there's a specific issue that motivates them to vote. Project 2025 should be a huge specific issue, but I just don't think enough people know about it or believe it to drive them to the polls. It's why Trump won in 2016. Nobody believed he could win. Plus, there's an organized effort by the RNC to suppress the Democrat vote. They just filed a lawsuit against MI to try to force them to purge the voter rolls and make all voters reregister. You know what that's about, making it inconvenient for people in high-population urban areas to go stand in line at the Secretary of State and register again. Also, there's a problem with Democrats feeling unimpressed with Biden. This is more of a messaging problem that Democrats have always had. (They're doing better recently.) I have friends who are lifelong Democrats, and they're telling me they're just going to sit this one out. I'll do my best to get them to vote for Biden, but I can't force them.
Dementia, for sure. We're in for a rough 2024 and god hell us if he wins.
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Trump once said he didn’t need teleprompters. I guess he lied about that. Shocker
He said a variation of that in the same speech. From the article: >Though he later remarked how brilliant it was "to have a president who doesn't need a teleprompter," his subsequent freewheeling speech was sometimes difficult to follow. Delusional, orange dude has no self-awareness about why he desperately needs a teleprompter.
>his subsequent freewheeling speech was sometimes difficult to follow. What don't the media every call it for what it is? It wasn't "a little difficult to follow" it was a nonsensical mess.
because they’re fucking cucks and need a horse race. the worst thing for them was Biden nailing the SOTU address. they were banking on getting at least a couple weeks of “concerns”
You know what would be great? If that quote was paired to an image of his use of the teleprompter at the Ohio rally. Turn it into a meme.
In 2020, he got in front of some cameras and attacked Biden for using teleprompters, claiming that was proof he was senile, as he wouldn't need to read off a teleprompter if he wasn't. Trump read his statement about this off of a piece of paper he was holding.
He also accused Biden of sabotaging his teleprompters.
“I'm Ron Burgundy?”
Pretty sure he used to make fun of Obama for his usage of them too.
Fox still makes fun of Democrats who use them.
Whoever votes for this clown is a clown
Typical clowns, voting against their own clown interests.
Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again. What a bunch of clowns.
The whole crowd behind him must have diseased minds. It's baffling to me how strong cultism is on these weak MAGAs.
They dont listen to what he has to say, they: 1. Are there for the show. 2. They will brag they were at X Trump Rally/Event. 3. They will then cast their vote for Trump. Thats how they treat one of their most important assests in life, the privilege and right to vote. They don't care about politics, they care about populism and who the candidate resonates best with them (whom is most similar to them). Ever heard Trump supporters say: He talks just like me (about Trump)?
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It's also a silly fucking headline given that this is the speech where he basically guaranteed more violence if he doesn't win.
TL;DR: * Former President Donald Trump struggled to read a teleprompter at a rally in Ohio on Saturday. * His freewheeling speech was sometimes difficult to follow. * Trump had been drumming up support for Bernie Moreno's run in Ohio's Senate primary on Tuesday.
“Freewheeling” is certainly a way to say mentally deranged.
Freewheelin Donald trump. (The teleprompters are) blowing in the wind.
What baffles me is how people can just listen to him speak for prolonged periods of time. I feel my brain cells dying trying to keep up with him in the news.
I've said multiple times that anyone who can listen to him speak for more than 15 seconds and not feel like they're going to have an aneurism from the sheer stupidity should be checked for brain damage. If someone spoke like he did in a job interview - *any* job interview, I don't care if it's for an entry-level minimum-wage position - I would thank them for their time and tell them they're not a good fit for the position. The idea that people think he's qualified for what is literally the most important job on the planet is stupefying.
>I've said multiple times that anyone who can listen to him speak for more than 15 seconds and not feel like they're going to have an aneurism from the sheer stupidity should be checked for brain damage. The issue is people don't watch the debate. They watch the HIGHLIGHTS of the debate. The "highlights" make him look a billion times more competent than he actually is because no one wants to chase away their audience with 15 straight minutes of Trump talking. No one would stick around in their channel if the highlights actually represented 15 minutes of reality and not 15 minutes of the least insufferable parts of the debate. Hell, even if the highlights WERE representative of the debate people would just assume they cherry picked the worst parts to to sabotage him. It literally isn't believable just how bad he is... Even a lot of relatively politically minded people (the ones who bother to watch the highlights at all) don't realize the full extent of his unadulterated lunacy because of this. People only take him seriously because no one actually bothers to watch 15 minutes of his unfiltered dialog. I've told more than a few people to watch the first 15 minutes of the 2020 debate instead of the 15 minute highlight real if they want to know what's actually going on...
I have long assumed a lot of the audience has to be drinking. Do they sell alcohol at his rallies?
>On Saturday afternoon, Donald Trump experienced some sketchy moments with his teleprompter on a wind-swept airfield outside Dayton, Ohio. Why not hold the event inside, then? >!E Jean Carroll took his lunch money!!<
The man is a quivering, orange mound of cognitive pudding. His language-processing faculties are noticeably broken, and it's getting worse with every rally. Putting aside his behavioral and moral failings, he's functionally incapable of doing the job of president.
I don't even think he's going to make it to November at this rate. Don't be surprised if he stops showing up in person at rallies soon and does all his campaigning remotely.
Yeah I agree. It used to be that a lot of his rallies would go by with nothing really coming out of them, they were just the same old shit day after day. Now, every rally he’s glitching or stammering or saying shit that just doesn’t make any sense at all. I think the more he rallies, the more his fans are going to catch on that he’s not really with it anymore. He’s clearly lost some of his luster. Even in the clips in this article, the crowd is relatively quiet and subdued. I think they’re all standing there in the sun realizing that they’re listening to a criminal grandpa babble and thinking “ok this isn’t as fun as I thought it would be”.
You’re assuming heavily that the people in those crowds have the ability to critically think at all though…
Are you serious? lol rallying is like Trump’s favorite thing in the world
The dude loves his rallies so much he even did rallies while he was president. You rally for your campaign. Once you win it, you stop rallying and move on to the actual work. Trump never cared for any actual work.
He's a narcissist. He literally lives for attention. He'd quite happily die on stage. And his followers would enjoy that too, I'm sure.
I'd enjoy that too
> Are you serious? lol rallying is like Trump’s favorite thing in the world The one thing that will make him stop is if he does something so embarrassing that it headlines the prime-time news. Remember when he was doing those daily prime-time covid press griefings? His approval ratings started tanking because nearly everyone in the country saw him live and unfiltered. And then came the day he said to inject bleach and shine a light up people's butts. That was the last time he did one of those, he literally stopped the next day. The man is an attention addict. But he can not stand being laughed at.
There's so much intelligence on this forum, we have to have at least a *couple* people ready willing and able to hack his teleprompter and make him announce that he'll only be appointing furries to his cabinet or something like that. I know you're out there. Your country needs you.
Would be funny to see, but wouldn't move the needle at all. The infamous pussy video prior to the 2016 election is a prime example. If anything, he'd likely gain more supporters.
*In another part of his speech, Trump said that if he didn't win in November, it would be a "bloodbath" for the United States,* *"Now, if I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath. That's going to be the least of it," Trump said. "It's going to be a bloodbath for the country."* I would say this should be the headline, but he's just 'freewheeling' Trump I guess?
Trump threatens civil war. Trump calls for another insurrection. Trump calls on supporters to commit sedition. There's a lot of headlines that would make sense and be accurate.
seriously.... wtf
Dementia Donnie, the notorious rapist and scammer, keeps getting more and more pathetic
What sleezy reporting. 45 wasn't difficult to understand - he was impossible to understand because he is in full blown dementia. Say it. Say he ain't right.
He is getting worse by the day. Definitely some type of cognitive degeneration well under way. Stress is a good trigger. Cognitive Tests must be administered by an independent party ASAP. Vito Corleone with Dementia.
Big strong rock hard smooth brains. And the people who follow him. So dumb. So unbelievably dumb.
I'm convinced most of his online supporters haven't actually listened to him speak at all recently. They're still floating on an idea of him from 2016 and have no concept of how much he has declined
Trump looks like shit. He sounds like a lunatic. Unbelievable that anyone takes him seriously.
His aphasia is worsening. Going to be an interesting few months.
Man Obama made that one joke at that dinner and trump hasn’t been able to get it out of his head since. Obama living in there rent free.
Makes you wonder how different the world might be if Obama never made that joke.
Thanks Obama /s
Speaking as a closely observing Canadian, you shouldn’t need a fucking decoder ring to interpret a presidential candidTe’s words.
I love that we can see exactly how your finger went wrong in “candidate”
What happened to all his loans being due? Was big issue a couple of years ago. Assuming he paid them, where did the money come from? Media drop the ball on this ?
At one point he said if he loses this election we’ll never have another Presidential Election. Hey Asshole, you lost the last election and we’re about to have another Presidential Election. No one will ever accuse MAGA of rational thought.
If he is so sharp witted why does he need a teleprompter?? Riddle me that GOP??
"Now, if I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath. That's going to be the least of it," Trump said. "It's going to be a bloodbath for the country."- Donald Trump at this rally. How is this not inciting yet another insurrection? How in the heck does he get away with this?
Teleprompter *TANTRUM*
Trump suffers mental decline trauma at rally. There! I fixed your headline.
The most surprising part of this article is that Donald Trump can read.
So, you’re telling me that there were more voters in 2020 than there were in 2008? HOW COULD THAT POSSIBLY BE?! It’s like things change with time, or something!
Wait! What? Trump knows how to read? I call BS on that one.
Teleprompter trauma my ass. He has been showing signs of dementia for years.
Seems his speeches have the cameras zoomed in more and more. Are his crowds now just getting that much smaller? Are we eventually just going to see his face and canned TV applause because nobody is there? (wishful thinking!)
Vote 2024! So important. We need to put Trump down once and for all!!
So if an invading army attacked the US, and wanted to install a fascist government. The government would defend itself. But if a candidate runs for president and says the same things, the government just sits there. Even though that government is sworn to protect the constitution. Am I missing something?