Meanwhile, Harris has aggresively hit the campaign trail, hoping to fire up voters in battleground states across the country
On Thursday, former president Donald Trump attempted to — yet again — recalibrate his campaign, this time with a press conference at his property in Bedminster, New Jersey.
The appearance at his beloved golf course comes exactly one week after Trump tried to put the spotlight back on himself amid Vice President Kamala Harris’s surging poll numbers, with a press conference at his Florida home of Mar-a-Lago. He used the event to grumble over crowd sizes, at one point stating incorrectly that his speech before the January 6 riot at the Capitol had more attendees than Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington.
It’s noteworthy that both of these “press conferences” happened at his own properties — the safest of spaces for the former president.
He also complained about Obama golfing (at Air Force bases close to the White House). Trump nearly doubled his count (mostly at private/expensive golf courses).
Republicans are nothing if not hypocrites.
Mostly at his own private + expensive golf courses, where he was billing the secret service at exorbitant rates, which we all paid for in our taxes. That’s fucking bullshit, and reason #27564 that you shouldn’t vote for the guy.
He was directly profiting from his golf outings at our expense. Fuuuuck this guy.
Had it been a peanut farm I’m sure Republicans would have been going apeshit, right!
Dude just owned a peanut farm, right? It’s not like he forced tax payers to pay him for his own usage of that peanut farm.
That’s the worst part
He still is!
Fuuuuuuuuuuck this guy!!!
Bold “our” in “our taxes” as well, since he certainly did not pay any of his. To the extent of committing crimes to not pay.
Obama golfing (at Air Force bases close to the White House).
Golf courses specifically designed and built for heads of state and dignitaries to golf at because of house safe and secure they are. Mar-a-lago was allegedly a nightmare for the secret service to secure.
i think hes terrified of the optics of not drawing crowds. the 24-person couchfucker event prolly scared the shit out of him
I agree. And I think that assassination attempt has him scared, whether he admits it or not.
If he’s so terrified, just ensure everyone there has a gun. I’m sure there’s plenty of good people with guns to stop the bad ones.
You do not need to agree, what he says is based on a fake story.
Was that a thing or are you referencing the picture that was taken 1.5 hours before the event began?
The second part
Yikes. People like to believe whatever fits their narrative. Really sad to see that. I hate Trump more than anyone, but fake stories are really not going to help.
People are saying it was a weak and low energy crowd of 24. Repubs have been telling me for years to use the “people are saying” standard for fact checking.
Good point.
I was reading an article the other day (will try to find it) that said Trump almost 100% has PTSD after the assassination attempt. According to someone with the campaign, every night he’s just been watching and rewatching that ~10 second clip showing how close he was being killed. His speeches have gotten a lot darker in tone (even compared to how he’s always been) and as this post says, he’s not really been “out” since then.
I think it’s more likely that he’s reliving a moment where all attention was on him.
I saw this take in that thread too, and I have to say it seems to be the more plausible of the two. Someone told him that he was basically guaranteed the presidency in that moment, and now it’s all slipping away from him. He’s trying to go back to the moment where he was sure he’d won.
Of course, it could also be trauma. Who can say? If he even knows for sure (and I personally doubt if he has that level of self awareness), he’ll take it to his grave.
that said Trump almost 100% has PTSD
Send him to the VA to deal with his PTSD, see the real life nightmare all his budget cuts and slashes and how it impacts veterans the repubs claim to love.
The VA can barely help veterans, you think they’ll even see a dodger?
Would love to, but captain bone spurs never served
I was reading an article the other day (will try to find it)
If you do find it, you should share it at /c/politics and/or /c/news. It sounds interesting. I will try to remember to look back here but to be honest my memory sucks.
I suspect it was this one that already was. https://lemmy.world/post/18705908
Thanks - I was hoping for something more in depth, but this certainly could be it…:
According to Vanity Fair’s sources, another theory floating among Trump’s circle is that he is suffering from the trauma of the assassination attempt against him in July.
“He’s been watching that seven-second clip of how close he was to getting shot right in the head—over and over and over again,” said a Republican close to the campaign. “He may actually legit have PTSD.” A campaign official confirmed that it continues to affect Trump. “He’s been through a lot,” he said.
This isn’t the exact article I read but it’s pretty much the same thing.
Here’s the quote I was referencing:
“He’s been watching that seven-second clip of how close he was to getting shot right in the head—over and over and over again,” the Republican close to the campaign told Vanity Fair. “He may actually legit have PTSD.”
Thanks 🙏
That was shared yesterday
Maybe getting shot at made him realize he’s not as liked as he thought he was, especially considering it was one of his team that shot at him.
Looks like the doctor is afraid of the monster he made.
What a coward.
It’s from anonymous sources, so take it with a grain of salt, but the Daily Beast reports that Trump’s been obsessed with the video of the assassination attempt.
“Old man yells at crowd”
Old man suffering from dementia and too frightened to go outside. He’s always been too frightened to actually answer any questions from the press. Just flees home and puts on a lid.
Was that when biden had covid??? He gets you isolate for other people right? right??
This is subjective, of course, but I recall Trumpanzees saying “time for a lid” (about Biden, with no sense of irony that Donald literally fled from reporters when the questions hurt his feelings) throughout the entire 2020 election. I don’t think it was specific to having covid.
I mean, he almost got killed. I’d be a bit wary too
yes but you’re normal. We’re talking about a demented sociopathic malignant narcissist who also happens to be a convicted fraud and rapist in a wig, makeup, and heels.
Not . . . not that there’s anything wrong with a wig, makeup, and heels - only if you’re pretending to be a dictatorial strongman asshole.
It’s like Vance’s eyeliner: Makeup for men should be perfectly acceptable, if it helps them feel more comfortable. But when your base regularly hurls f-slurs, it’s just hypocritical.
constantly injects violent rhetoric into political discourse
Wait, no, not like that.
That the Iranians want to kill him might have something to do with his choice of venue.
Did they release a statement or something? Or is that like an extrapolation they’ve made from the ‘hacking by Iran’ thing?
