@Rschooley @Karoli What I don't get is why he's campaigning now when he likely won't even survive the first year ?
— Don Klyne (@klyne_donald) February 18, 2017
It's the one thing he's been successful at politically? https://t.co/4sdl3QPvEm
— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 18, 2017
Not even a month in and President Snowflake needs to throw a white power rally to feel better about himself.
— Scott Tobias (@scott_tobias) February 18, 2017
CNN [warning: autoplay] “Trump gets what he wants in Florida: Campaign-level adulation“:
… Trump, who just months ago finished campaigning for the office he now holds, was both selling what his administration has done in its first 30 days and trying to change the subject after a chaotic month. The President was forced to fire his national security adviser, struggled to roll out his travel ban and strained to explain a growing story about how members of his 2016 campaign made repeated contact with Russian individuals known to US intelligence…
What was unclear Saturday was what exactly Trump was campaigning for. The event was being run by Trump’s 2016 campaign, Donald J. Trump for President Inc.
Before taking the stage, Trump was asked if it was too early to do another campaign event. His response: “Life is a campaign.”
“Making our country great again is a campaign,” Trump added. “For me, it’s a campaign. To make America great again is absolutely a campaign.”…
Michael Caputo, a former senior adviser to Trump’s campaign, said he expects this sort of campaign-style event will be the “first of many.”“He grew very familiar with the rally concept and I expect him to return to where he is comfortable when he needs to recharge,” Caputo said. “The fact that Trump showed us a new way of winning should have given everyone a hint that he would show everyone a new way of governing.”
All attendees now in the AeroMod hangar for the @realDonaldTrump rally. Total attendees at event = 9,000.
— Melbourne Police (@MelbournePolice) February 18, 2017
bookmark this tweet for next week's Crowd Controversy https://t.co/m1if5yEOc7
— Colin Campbell (@colincampbell) February 18, 2017
Trump: "The White House is running so smoothly. And believe me, I and we inherited one big mess."
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) February 18, 2017
What you are hearing from Trump right now isn't spin, it's delusion
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) February 18, 2017
Let's check in on the comments scrolling next to the YouTube livestream of Trump's speech pic.twitter.com/kXOPnqfrCf
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) February 18, 2017
are we sure they aren't just airing a rerun of a speech from August
— Mark Berman (@markberman) February 18, 2017
I hope Trump feels better about his bad poll numbers and series of unforced errors, because making him less sad was the goal of the rally
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) February 18, 2017
2/ weekend to his press conference last week. They aren't similar events, but to him they are. He's under attack and he rallies.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 18, 2017
It's almost like the United States has no President – we are a rudderless ship heading for a major disaster. Good luck everyone!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 20, 2014
Thru the Looking Glass...
Right… and in keeping w/ the whole “White Power/Neo Nazi” tone of the Trump Presidency, not to mention the astonishing ineptitude on display, perhaps that new way of governing could be called “The Shitzkreig”…
TenguPhule
If Trump is going to start the 2020 race early, does that mean political attack ads are going to be a fact of life again effective immediately?
TenguPhule
Also, if Trump steals from his campaign again for personal use, does he have immunity this time?
amk
Is maggie, the tool, justifying the narcissist’s constant seeking of adulation from his pathetic cult mob?
Also, too, did maggie even graduate high school?
RaflW
Ain’t nothing new about corrupt incompetence. It was easy to predict it would be bad. Though really, I didn’t think our Republican president would be an order of magnitude worse than Berlusconi.
Uncle Cosmo
@RaflW:
Hah. After the election I told my friends that an orange-haired Berlusconi was about the best we could hope for. Clearly Who/Whatever might be running the multiverse has not been disposed to be so kind…
Skippy-san
It is amazing to me, that every bad thing said about Trump in the campaign has come true – and still these fucking morons turn out for him. You can sum up Republican support in two words: selfish pigs. They don’t care about country or others-so long as they get theirs. It would be interesting to run the numbers on how many of them are getting government benefits, ACA subsidies, SS, etc-while all the while they are cheering a man dedicated to destroying those benefits, and them.
ThresherK
Maggie Haberman’s tweets all read tainted to me now. No matter how.plain they are, I swear she could write something like “A bowling ball is round” and I’d wonder what Stockholm-y syndrome subtext would be in it.
montanareddog
@Uncle Cosmo: Of course, Italians and Belgians are walking around with big grins on their faces, now that another important democracy has a government even more embarrassing than their own recent “unpleasantnesses”
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
@Skippy-san:
Three words: Bigoted Selfish Pigs.
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
Translation: He feels threatened and retreats to his safe zone.
bystander
@amk: I think Haberman relates to Trump’s mentality. She does NOT like being challenged, and will respond to all challengers. Weirdly thin skinned, on top of her pedestrian blather.
From your keyboard to the Goddess’s ears. Just make it stop. I don’t care how.
And what boomer among us hasn’t thought back on a certain graffiti of the Vietnam protest era? Who hasn’t quoted Henry II on Becket in the past month?
CarolDuhart2
Trump is a junkie. He needs his fix of adulation. Of course, like junkies, it’s never going to be enough. Prepare for the rally of the month, then week, then whatever they can do daily.
Whent that happens, hope that Congress decides to stop paying for that fix.
raven
8 guys with guns help a pro-Trump Rally win the ATL.
low-tech cyclist
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman):
Bingo. Who knew there was such a thing as an orange snowflake?
low-tech cyclist
@bystander:
I’m a Boomer who’s racking his brains, but not coming up with anything particularly apropos. A little help, please?
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Guess they got their man cards punched.
Epicurus
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner of this thread. Mr. Cole, can we add a “like” button to these comments?
raven
@low-tech cyclist: Comin in to Los Angeleeees. . . .
bystander
@low-tech cyclist: Imploring someone long gone.
I’m wary of the deleterious effects of imprecations, even if they are provoked and not borne of my spleen.
prob50
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
Perfect! Thank you!
Iowa Old Lady
@TenguPhule: He no longer has the Trump Foundation as a slush fund. I suspect his campaign chest is the substitute. Once a person does something like that the first time, they’re likely to do it again.
Fester Addams
If people like @LouiseMensch are right then the Republican congressional majority must be desperate right now to figure out ways to turn Republican primary voters against the Republican president before #KremlinGate goes critical.
Childish gratification is sufficient reason for the Republican president to hold “campaign” rallies but regent Bannon may be playing for higher stakes.
ding7777
@Iowa Old Lady: Super Pacs is the new slush fund. Would not surprise me if Trump “donates” money to other (real and stalking horse) candidates willing to hold fund raisers at a Trump property. . ,
Jack the Second
My new hobby is figuring out how many scare quotes to add to things that get said by or about Trump.
Sherparick
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman): .First, very unfair to pigs, a rather intelligent & delightful animal. No, these are human beings getting a thrill up their leg on the tribal identity & mob action high. They can feel great about themselves just because they are White & “winning” means telling everyone not part of the tribe to suck it.
leeleeFL
@bystander: I lean toward Oliver Cromwell’s speech to the Rump Parliament, “in the name of God, go!”
bystander
@leeleeFL: Too polite by far. If only Cromwell had used a two word imperative, a four letter word with a dangling preposition. Now, that one I routinely shriek at the tv, tablet and radio.
leeleeFL
@bystander: I concur. I often use Cromwell when I need thoroughly useless and/or incompetent ppl to vacate my area, just to keep my “little grey cells” functioning. But your direction leaves my lips at least 20 times a day. BTW, the Rally was only a few miles away from me and I had to suffer thru dozens of ppl who had been there sharing their “joy”. Ppl I actually like. It was unpleasant, I can tell you.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
If one just substitutes the words “bulls shitting” for “campaigning”, it all makes sense.
Librarian
The Nazis kept holding Nuremberg rallies after they came to power, didn’t they? So why not him?
JGabriel
Thru the Looking Glass…:
I believe that would be “The Scheissekreig.”
But I could be wrong – anyone fluent in Deutsche wanna help out here?
brettvk
@JGabriel: But “shitz” chimes better with “blitz.”
Vhh
@JGabriel: Scheissekrieg
Mohagan
@low-tech cyclist: What popped into my mind was “Dick Nixon before he Dicks You”