Photo from the Washington Post:
Trump sways and bops to music for 39 minutes in bizarre town hall episode
The actual event is, as usual, fascinatingly cringey.
This is right after the second guy fainted, so trump’s already been interrupted twice, the venue’s tiny, and I think he doesn’t like dog killer Kristi Noem despite obvious commonalities. She was probably insufficiently subservient.
He wants security to open the doors to let fresh air in, but they can’t because of USSS measures to protect his dumb ass. Watch how he loses his mind in rage, suppresses it, and rolls it into his patter in the span of one second.
Then he says hey everybody lets all hear my favorite - Pavarotti singing Ave Maria! (Crowd cheers). The fuck? It gets weirder from there.
The church people doing the both hands in the air thing has always struck me as odd.
This time it strikes me as infantile behavior. Like a child asking for their parent to pick them up… It’s so weird.
I don’t think he gets what’s going on there, that there’s people treating it like a church service. At least he doesn’t recognize the symbols and gestures, he gets the “they’re worshipping me” part, which I suppose is the “important” thing.
This shit is gonna stick around forever now. Ugh. I wonder if this is how the Romans felt.
Thanks for posting that. He was definitely trying to dismiss the crowd with YMCA. When they don’t leave, he asks if they want another song. He still seemed with it at that point, but then he just sways and does awkward dances for half an hour. He points and waves and talks to people on stage occasionally. Really bizarre. At 1:41:25, an aide goes on stage and shows him a note of some kind, then he wraps it up after that song finishes. Dying to know what that note said.
His TV is set up in his dressing room so he can watch his “Programs”
Note said Putin’s on the phone. /s but not really
I have been reading different headlines all day about this. This comment and video show how bizarre the whole thing was. The headlines and short posts just seem meh. I wouldn’t trust this fool to hold a bottle of water for me, much less run the country.
We’re so fucked if we don’t get everyone who supports Harris or supports democracy and is willing to vote for Harris to show up.
I wouldn’t trust this fool to hold a bottle of water for me
You’d be right, he’s not good at that either.
We’re so fucked if we don’t get everyone who supports Harris or supports democracy and is willing to vote for Harris to show up.
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That was so strange.
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That last one tho 🤣
Even I might believe it was real
Dammit who put the question mark in the teleprompter?!
Remember when Howard Dean yelling a little enthusiastically was enough to doom his campaign in the primaries? How have we gotten to the point where a senile Nazi sundowning on camera for 40 minutes has a toss-up chance of being president and will almost certainly stage a coup in the event that he loses?
For reference: 2004: The scream that doomed Howard Dean
The establishment said he needed to go after this rally, and he was basically cancelled for being enthusiastic about helping America.
I had heard this as well, but someone else on here was basically saying that his campaign was doomed before this anyways, not sure of the specifics.
I made a comment describing the phenomenon here:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/23959648/13416196
(Sorry, I don’t know the proper way to link a comment in an instance-agnostic way so I linked to the URL of my home instance)
That’s confusing cause and effect. Howard Dean’s speech was supposed to be a concession speech after losing the only early primary/caucus he was trying to win. He poured in all of his resources in the hopes of winning Iowa, underperformed expectations against a backdrop of dropping in the polls for weeks, and coming in third (with no real prospects for New Hampshire or South Carolina) basically made it impossible for him to have the volunteers, money, or press coverage to survive into the next stage of competing in bigger states with primaries clumped up together.
He showed everyone his plan of winning Iowa or going home, lost Iowa, and then gave some kind of rallying speech as if he had a plan to recover from that loss. He never did, and it wasn’t the scream that killed his campaign. His campaign was dead before the scream happened. It’s just that the scream was a particularly memorable way for a campaign to die.
It was a weird sounding scream though. It reminds me of Jeb’s “please clap” moment.
The second-most depressing thing about this election is how, for most of it, both candidates were people in clear cognitive decline.
Where were his handlers while he was sundowning on stage???
The fascinating thing is that there were other people on stage during this. I think they’re afraid to make him mad
Probably exhausted, hiding somewhere.
Where will you be when the Ketamine kicks in?
Trump just spoke out against Kamala using teleprompters. His campaign shouldn’t even put them up so we can see how crazy shit gets at his rallies.
Everyday we reach new depths
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Perfect for a meme
……. Is this real?!
Trump is a perfect illustration of the uncannily valley. He looks strangely human enough to pass as human, but he behaves strangely stupid and criminal enough to be a poorly written 90’s video game villain.
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