The Crowd Started Leaving Halfway Through Trump's Florida Rally

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Posted on Thu, May 9th, 2019 by Jason Easley
The Crowd Started Leaving Halfway Through Trump’s Florida Rally
Trump couldn’t hold the attention of his own supporters in Florida, as many of them began leaving him halfway through his rally.


Trump’s own supporters walked out while he was still talking

The New York Times reported:

The president cycled through a familiar list of rally topics, like a border wall with Mexico and the support of Democrats for late-term abortions. But it was a discursive performance, even by Mr. Trump’s standards, and the mood was notably less electric than at some of his other rallies. The crowd began straggling out during the latter half of the speech, to the sound of helicopter engines being warmed up in a nearby field.

Mr. Trump twice complained about the stage — where he stood under a giant banner that read “Make America Great Again” — saying that the floor was so slippery that he wondered if it had been set up by the Democrats.
Even his own supporters are bored with Trump

Enthusiasm matters in elections. Many voters need to be motivated to cast their ballots. Donald Trump is using fear as his primary motivation, but he beats the fear drum so incessantly that it appears his supporters are beginning to tune him out. Trump is not a popular president. He has an iron grip on the Republican Party, but moments like what happened in Florida lead to questions about how passionate the support is for Trump.

Republicans were outworked and out energized by Democrats in 2018. Democratic voters would flock to the polls in waves if they could cast their 2020 ballot for president today. The level of intensity on the Democratic side has not been this strong since the Obama/Clinton primary.

While Trump’s supporters are walking out on him while he is still speaking, Democrats are ready to ready to roll and counting down the seconds until November 3, 2020.

[muntrv]

1. Trump supporters tuning him out? I will believe it when I see it

in 2020.

[malaise]

2. He cannot sustain his act in the middle of all

this bad news - he was flatter than a pancake last night.

[KansasKali]

6. Flat? He makes Thor in Endgame look skinny.

Duller than dishwater maybe. Flat? Ha!

[malaise]

10. Voice tone

not body fat

[LibFarmer]

39. Body fat rivals Jabba the Hut nt

[katmondoo]

56. He was using that Jim Jones cadence again, gives me chills even seeing him for less than a second

[malaise]

57. I didn't watch live but have seen some clips

and you are correct - I swear he's on something

[shanti]

63. I hate that too

where he trails off when speaking. It's so disingenuous.

[DENVERPOPS]

81. Maybe

Maybe, just maybe, his fanatics were finally reacting to the news about the student shooter in Denver and it drug up their memories of what happened in Florida. That, and him awarding the medal to Tiger Woods, instead of the real hero, the kid who died trying to take down the Denver Shooter..(a mexican kid, the ones Trump loves to hate....)

[True Blue American]

92. He was in the Panhandle

Where they are waiting desperately on help. Blaming Democrats when he is the one holding up the bill because it helps PR.

[malaise]

94. He also blamed those 'ungrateful' Puerto Ricans

and we all know that both folks in the Panhandle and PR are aware that it is all his fault

[True Blue American]

95. And many of those voters

Have migrated from there.

I was almost caught in Hurricane Floyd in Florida, then less than a year later saw the damage in part of Puerto Rica. This last one was a thousand times worse.

[Iliyah]

3. Let the video go viral . . .

And him mentioning about shooting immigrants was not a slip up it was real. Shithole is sending messages to his base.

[dalton99a]

5. No, he meant it.

[dalton99a]

4. They need to work on their Sieg Heil salute

[mshasta]

7. he repeats the same shit over and over

gut-sucking leech being on campaign mode for the past two years

sick of it.

[Andy823]

11. It's brainwashing 101

Keep repeating the same BS, and lies over and over and over, and the subjects get indoctrinated. High control religions do it all the time, like Jehovahs Witnesses, and they get the same results, CONTOL over those who are gullible.

[lagomorph777]

32. "Keep repeating the same BS, ... and the subjects get indoctrinated." Or seriously bored.

Looks like the latter is happening now.

[Rural_Progressive]

45. Ya gotta' keep ramping it up

or you lose them.

A classic example of this is professional wrestling. If you compare the stunts that were performed back in the days of the regional wrestling businesses they were pretty tame compared to what McMahon's WWE has put on for the past decade or so.

WWE has reached a point now where the only way to keep the audience is to have their performers literally injure each other. Since that's a bar to high, McMahon's empire is in decline.

If Donnie O can't produce more sensational fear and hate he will also lose his audience.

[zentrum]

84. Good point.

[kimbutgar]

37. I wonder if they also studied Scientology

Someone I know, is good friends with a fat donnie supporter and they get multiple emails a day trying to keep them in a cult. The poor maggots are victims of the cruel Democrats and it is a witch-hunt and they’re coming for them.

[BigmanPigman]

65. Really? That is interesting.

I write him nasty gmails and got the standard W House reply in my gmail (Thank You, it said) and after that I said I didn't want one. Is that what your friends get or is it more specific?

[kimbutgar]

74. Yes, my friend got on the orange maggot wagon and sent money during the election since then

He gets emails at least twice a day. They are persuasive and say the Democrats are attacking the best president ever. I ask him now and then about he emails and he told me the other day he is getting more now. And eerily he is starting to weaken in his support and told me he doesn’t want to talk about it when I ask like he’s embarrassed. He even asked my opinion of the mueller report.

[BigmanPigman]

85. That sounds like good news to me.

It looks like the moron is getting more desperate to keep his supporters so he must be worried. And more good news that your friend may be waking up and smelling the coffee (not covefe). I wonder if he'll donate any money during the 2020 election or has he learned his lesson?

[kimbutgar]

86. It's too soon to tell

[jayschool2013]

99. That explains so much

such as why anyone would ever buy and drink Bud Light. Repetition.

[Johonny]

8. He's like a stand up comedian doing the same act for forty years

You seen one Trump rally, you've seen them all.

[DeminPennswoods]

55. Exactly

Great analogy

[Golden Raisin]

9. True test will be if they continue to vote for him

and other complicit Republicans.

[livetohike]

12. Trump is/has been boring for a long time now. His childish

name calling schtick is old.

[lpbk2713]

13. Does the crowd still shout "Lock her up" at Trump's rallies?

His shit got old long ago.

[womanofthehills]

88. Yup!

They have zero originality!

[czarjak]

14. "Steeped in the protocol"

[thegoose]

15. Even MAGATS are sick of Ancient Orange

Blithering old fuck.

[Clash City Rocker]

79. Ooh, "Ancient Orange," atsa good one

[womanofthehills]

87. Today Randi Rhodes said his color was darker than usual at rally

She called his skin color - “burnt pumpkin”

[watoos]

16. Hey, they got paid,

stayed a while, then left. Hope they were paid in cash.

[More_Cowbell]

17. I was wondering if they were paid, too

Why would a diehard supporter take the trouble to haul himself out there and then leave early?

[sop]

22. Most of his supporters are really old

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They're overweight, hypertensive, diabetic and dyspeptic, with arthritic knees and hips, making it difficult to stand for so long. In the future Trump's advance people will probably have to permit wheelchair and walker access to these Bund Rally events if they want to avoid stories like this. It might ruin the optics, though; a sea of angry octogenerians, relying on medical devices to keep from falling down while offering nazi salutes.

[OMGWTF]

25. That means those old MAGAt fuks are all on Social Security and Medicare

which Shitler is trying to destroy.

[sop]

29. "Keep your government hands off my Medicare and Social Security!"

That was the Tea Party's favorite campaign slogan just a few years ago. These folks have lost whatever sense of irony they might have once had.

[lagomorph777]

35. Good thing we don't have socialism!

[ooky]

36. Sounds like a Harley-Davidson rally.

[sop]

62. A bunch of octogenarians dressed up as pirates.

[Chin music]

27. My thoughts exactly.

Real diligent workers they. Get paid and skip out. Just like him i guess. I'd expect nothing less.

[ffr]

18. Correction, the title should read MOB, not crowd.

Those beings have a lust for destruction and anarchy.

[BlueJac]

19. I live here in Florida...

when Air Force One was landing the local reporters said Trump was going to speak to hand pick crowd of supporters. I like them leaving early, that area has suffered a lot since the hurricane and need federal help. They are not getting it. That said, they will vote Republican like always or not vote at all.

[Hekate]

48. Hmm. If that's their binary choice, we need to encourage them to stay home. nt

[LiberalFighter]

20. How long did the "rally" last?

[mac56]

21. The problem is, when you gotta scare people so they'll vote for you

is you also gotta keep coming up with new and interesting ways to keep them scared.

[uponit7771]

24. +1, Red Don's base of relevance depended on him defending America against the non-wight walkers

[jcgoldie]

23. The problem is even if they get bored with Trump's juvenile schtick...

They are still motivated by their hatred of liberals, women, immigrants, black people, et al. And even though they may realize Trump's an idiot and an asshole, he still hates who they hate.

[Chin music]

28. At 1/3 or less of the population, who cares?

I don't really care, do you? After two years of factories closing, weak hurricane responses, name calling, and alllllll the rest, people just move on. Even if they all vote, we outnumber them. but, voting isn't enough.
We need to protest peaceably but in large numbers so the world knows this isn't how we roll. Like they do in France. When stuff happens, regardless of what French leaders say, the world knows how the French people feel. It's an important statement. When we are dull in our responses, it doesn't get on tv, and the world thinks we are fine with the shit he does. Protesting has a wealth of benefits.
AND IT"S ALMOST HALF WAY THROUGH MAY> This is the time when the summer starts whistling by. Organizers should consider the warm weather for good turn outs. "Summer of Love" and the Summer of '68 comes to mind.
Seems an Occupy type situation would bring news to protesting everyday this summer. We camp out, and support each other, and mak a statement to the world.

[maddiemom]

30. Good point; GREAT suggestion!

[Chin music]

31. Thank you.

[Heartstrings]

72. The Brits are exceptional at protests

especially protests against individual #1.....we could learn from both those countries!

[Chin music]

73. ABSOLUTELY! They know derangement when they see it.

If we wait til he starts a war, you know how thats going to go. Anyone who dares speak against him is in essence spaeking against the troops. There's a need for speed on the impeachment. Maybe NP knows she cant say it outright herself, and is hoping the hue and cry will put it over the top? If this is allowed to stand, like Prof Tribe says, this is the new standard of behavior.

[Heartstrings]

75. Yup, any sense of normalcy

is gone! Poof!

[Chin music]

76. I think Eliz Warren and Prof tribe and Robert Reich and others,...

have a real good grip on it. And I associate myself w their thinking. I couldn't agree more. That's a firm grasp of the BIG PICTURE right there. IMHO.

[kimbutgar]

38. Not to be a downer but Hitler took over Germany with 1/3 of the population support

That said, fat donnie is not gaining supporters but losing them.

[Chin music]

40. Yes. Im tired of being down 24/7 over stuff I can't control.

I can control going to marches though. And frankly, it's time.
I've tried to contact my local Indivisible, but, the stuff bounces back. Not unusual in this red ass area. Trying moveon now and supermajority. Local Dems are, well, they leave a lot to be desired. Beaten down by decades of farmer reds and the whole gop mantra. We shall see.

[mtngirl47]

42. So get active in your local Democratic party!

Find out who your precinct chair is....ask if you can make phone calls. Go to your monthly party meeting--it's not just for officers and chairs!

[Chin music]

43. Thanks. You don't know me very well.

I have been for decades. All the things you mentioned, and more. I'm just one person around here.
They're hands, not magic wands. Thanks for the post though.

[sop]

98. Werner Twertzog:

“Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches.”

[Nasruddin]

46. That 1/3 effectively controls the Senate

... which has a stranglehold on the president.

[Chin music]

61. Unless a couple of them change parties. it happens. Especially when folks are protesting

and making it clear who the good guys are. I'm glad candidates are speaking up. But theres 325+ million of us.
Less computer, more sneakers in the streets IMHO.

[Javaman]

26. I wish someone did exit interviews and asked why they were leaving. nt

[Chin music]

33. Good idea.

And watch craigslist in these areas, or whatever site they use to gather these angry nut-jobs. (4-8 chan, reddit??)

[NoMoreRepugs]

34. That's great news, especially if the trend continues.

His Orangeness is soon going to be fighting harder to derail the myriad of investigations building steam in multiple committees and locales. Old, fat and not exactly the picture of health, this level of stress is going to affect him like climate change - at an ever increasing rate and there's not a damn thing he can do to stop it.

[Chin music]

41. +1

[Gothmog]

44. K&R

[Maru Kitteh]

47. QUESTION: Does he fall down a lot when we're not looking?

He seems absolutely terrified of falling in public, from his well-documented fear of stairs to his tweets/warnings to Obama that he would fall down the stairs, taking carts and elevators everywhere, including onto the greens (some of them are sloped, the grass could be slippery). . . . is that what all the escalators are about too?

And now this complaint about a level, slippery floor, twice? Imagining Democrats installed a floor with the hope he would fall down?

Does he fall frequently? Is that why he looks down so carefully at his feet all the time?

[Dave Starsky]

54. We know he can't walk more than maybe 50 feet.

It's why uses a golf cart EVERYWHERE, even on putting greens, which is crazy.

I suspect ihe has some combination of dementia, congestive heart failure, arthritis, and probably diabetes. All you have to do is look at him to see he's not well.

[Maru Kitteh]

71. I have long-term care residents that are quite visibly more healthy and fit

than that steaming pile.

[FakeNoose]

58. Ronald Reagan never went anywhere without Nancy

He held onto her and she guided him, either his eyesight was going or maybe he just had trouble walking. He didn't know where to stand for the cameras until she told him. Half the time he forgot what he was supposed to say and she would talk into his "good" ear telling him his lines. The last couple years of Reagan's 2nd term, it was Nancy doing everything for him.

It's starting to sound like Chump has the same problems (dementia/feebleness) but he doesn't have Nancy.

[llmart]

64. Looks down at his feet???

That lardass can't even see his feet.

[Maru Kitteh]

70. LOL! okay. How about towards the earth where his feet are assumed to exist?

[llmart]

78. Oh, we're bad.

Bet Mealy Mouthed Melanie has a difficult time finding "something" on him also, or so Stormy informs us.

[Maru Kitteh]

82. Oh yes. Yes we are . . . Even money says Melanie

hasn't seen that particular "magic mushroom" for years. She might be dumb, but she ain't stupid.

Wait.

She is pretty stupid.

Still - I doubt she concerns herself with that particular (most certainly in this case, insufferable) dimension of marital life.

[John Fante]

77. Baby Digits would have a hard time seeing them even if he was svelte.

[True Blue American]

96. LOL

[Doodley]

49. Proving a lot of white folk with low IQs do have short attention spans when listening to BS.

[lunasun]

50. Meh Maybe they'll just start looking for someone more inspirational

https://m.

[C_U_L8R]

51. Chicken Little's dumb mean spirited brother

[qazplm135]

52. I think this article

presupposes that the vast majority of an average Trump crowd are Trump supporters...I think a decent chunk are just folks who are curious.

[stopbush]

53. The media will continue to prop up tRump until the second he loses in 2020.

Count on it.

[llmart]

66. Yep.

The clip I saw this morning on the news was of the cheering folk right behind him. They never showed people walking out. Why do they even have to cover his stupid rallies?

[LiberalLovinLug]

67. And if it's sparse pickings to find anything

to prop him up with, they'll just find whatever scraps of controversy or division coming from the Democrats and blow it up, talk about it 24/7 use the old "some are saying..." Too get a rise out of them and keep them on the defensive so they won't have time in interviews to mount any offence against Republicans themselves.

The MSM is not our friend. It's time Democrats learned how to deal with them differently. The same old script is not working.

[riversedge]

59. k for visibility

[0rganism]

60. word is, he wouldn't play Freebird or Stairway

and his peeps ran out of lighter fuel

[Moral Compass]

68. Any performer needs to have new material

He hasn’t rolled out any new material.

The act is getting old.

He’s getting old.

This is an act and if he doesn’t refresh it he’ll continue to lose his audience until only the completely crazy are left.

[pansypoo53219]

69. even my cat got bored w/ repeats sooner than his minions.

[George II]

80. This looks almost like the "Revolution", the crowd started leaving halfway through the revolution.

[lindysalsagal]

83. More than anything else, losing his rallies would deflate him.

Let's hope this is a trend.

[Aussie105]

89. Quick!

Trump needs a new script writer! Someone who can list his achievements, suitably fact checked, and give him realistic plans for the future!

Should be a short speech, tops 5 seconds.

Trump - too many rallies, not enough substance, too much repetition.
People get bored easily.
Especially those who thought years ago you would be good at improving their lives.
They know better now.
You can only leave dumb people waiting so long for the good stuff before they wander off disillusioned.

It was bound to happen sooner or later. I'm surprised it took this long.

A wonderful time for Democrats to get in there and push the 'Out with the Old and in with the New' message.

[Grokenstein]

90. Our complacency is how they win.

Republican Voter #1: "Trump has become boring!"
Republican Voter #2: "Look! The Democrats have a (fill in your favorite right-wing boogeyman phrase here) running for President!"
Republican Voter #1: "ZOMG MAGA MAGA MAGA!! GIMME THAT FLAVOR-AID!! HEIL TRUMP!! HEIL MURIKA!!!"

[VOX]

91. Right on the money.

They never really give up, or throw in the towel. And you’re correct, our complacency is the quickest road to defeat.

[The Wizard]

93. He will not get one more

vote than he did in 2016. Democrats have to motivate the base and persuade some people they were duped by a charlatan huckster.

[panfluteman]

97. I Don't Think That Most People Who Voted for Trump Were That Serious Anyway

I think that many, if not most of them fell into the following categories:

1) They voted on a lark to try something different, to shake things up in Washington;

2) They were mesmerized or glamorized by Trump's celebrity status as a reality TV star, or fell for all his BS about being a business genius;

3) They didn't want another Clinton in the White House - and there was a general mood of aversion towards the return of any political dynasty, including another Bush;

4) They liked Trump's catchy campaign slogan(s), and/or found his rallies extremely entertaining.

Since most of Trump's initial electoral support was not that deep or sincere in the first place, it's not surprising that people have started to drift out when the novelty or entertainment value have started to wane.