Donald Trump the Megathread part II - threadbans and mod warnings in OP

Something that strikes me as weird and weirder every time I hear it is the eerie singsong cadence Trump uses when he says, "all of a sudden she made a turn and she went - she became a ♪black person♪"

@7:24, for reference.

Did anyone else pick up on that, or is it just me?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/putting-down-rabid-dog-stefanik-demands-ny-official-resign-trump-shooting-remark

It's interesting the way some GOP people are getting all upset over remarks a out Trump getting shot at, do any of them remember the remarks he made after Nancy Pelosi's husband was assaulted in his house.

Trump's followers have tried to kill Nancy Pelosi on two occasions. She was a prime target for them on January 6th and then also the break-in. Trump has done absolutely nothing to quell the ire MAGA feels toward her, instead making her the centre of many a Twitter tirade, and when his followers broke into her house and gave her husband injuries which he is still recovering from, Trump did not extend an olive branch. He joked about how the attack wouldn't have happened if they'd had better walls around their house.

Trump has openly fomented division his entire political career. He has fed anger and in turn fed off it. He has demonised his political opponents to an absurd degree, regularly referring to the Democratic party as 'radical', 'leftist', 'Marxist', 'Communist' etc. He made up a conspiracy about the 2020 election and then sat back as a throng of his supporters ransacked the US Capitol. He has, in rallies, told supporters to 'knock the crap' out of people who might throw something at him.

The idea that we should feel any particular sympathy for him when it's no longer a game is pretty ludicrous. It served him right to get a personal taste of the shít he's been stirring, and nearly having his head blown off has evidently spooked him, which would go a long way to explaining his rather bare rally schedule right now.

What does it say? Instagram want me to sign my life away to see it.

Oh wait, I have one for this:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/05/22/sc-democrats-apology-mcmaster-hunt-dogs/70244765007/

MAGA Republicans. Go figure.

I don't think there's words to describe this man at this point tbh

another round of the greatest hits. again 🙄

The Trump campaign had billed the Republican presidential candidate’s rally in Asheville, North Carolina, on Wednesday as a significant economic address.

But Donald Trump struggled to stay focused on topic during his speech, and continuously veered off message to air grievances against Kamala Harris and inflammatory attacks on undocumented people.

Here are some of the things Trump said at the rally:

• Trump said that his advisers had wanted him to focus on economic concerns, but he said he was “not sure” he agreed that the economy is the most important issue of the election.
• Trump accused Harris of being “not smart” and of having “the laugh of a crazy person”.
• Trump said he would slash energy and electricity prices “by half”, but added: “If it doesn’t work out, you’ll say, ‘Oh well, I voted for him. I still got it down a lot.’”
• Trump said he would open up federal lands to drilling and ease the permitting process for pipelines.
• Trump appeared to dramatically escalate his calls for imposing tariffs on all US trading partners, suggesting import duties of up to 20%.
• Trump invited on stage Scott Bessent, the Wall Street investor seen as a possible contender to be treasury secretary in a second Trump White House.
• Trump claimed that his interview with Elon Musk was “one of the most successful shows ever done”.

His problem is he is probably unwilling to learn basic details about the economic issues. It's too easy to speak drivel and ramble on about past grievances.

The debate will be interesting in September. He is down to a 5 point lead qith 5% undecided in Florida where DeSantis won by 20% two years ago. Its not in play at the moment but it means they will need to spend there make sure they hold it

Immigration.

And the economy.

People believe Trump is better on both.

It's incredible really.

If you look at these independently and on the surface, he's constantly banging on about immigrants. They think - he is stronger on that. What they don't know is that his whole "build a wall" solution was boll0x, he didn't do it and he didn't get Mexico to pay for it. Plus, as said above, he tanked the legislation to help the border issue.

In relation to the economy, on the surface he looks like a successful businessman, but they forget or don't know his business failures, his business fraud, his history of not paying workers/contractors, his stubborn refusal to understand how tariffs work, his tax cuts only benefiting the wealthy and the trillions he added to the deficit.

That's why headlines are so important. There are a large portion of the general public who don't read below them, so correct phrasing matters.

It's no wonder the uneducated are his target group.

To be absolutely fair to the boy, he said that he wasn't criticising Walz's service. He claims he was criticising what Walz said about his military service, ie the supposed quote from Walz about carrying weapons of war during wartime - with the criticism being that Walz wasn't deployed in a combat zone, so the Trump campaign are trying to say Walz lied with that claim. This is where we may get into some semantics, because Walz was stationed in Italy for a time during the occupation of Afghanistan in a support role. If he'd carried/shot a gun during that time, does that count as carrying a weapon of war in a time of war, or do you have to be where the action is?

In any case, if this is all the Trump campaign has to bite into, they don't really have much.

We're lucky he's so fcuking stupid.