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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI know we keep saying Trump has really lost his shit this time, but
this is really, really nuts, even for him: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/us/politics/trump-treason-spies-whistle-blower.html
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)except fawning praise as a direct personal attack. The Republicons learned way too late how to get under his skin.
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)He only knows about 5 adjectives, and they are basically all superlatives.
It's internet talk, which breaks down to basically middle school level at best.
Wednesdays
(17,359 posts)please include a one paragraph summary, because they're behind paywalls. Thanks.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,681 posts)TRUMP: But you know you look at that most presidential, I just said Im the most presidential except for possibly Abe Lincoln when he wore the hat that was tough to beat.
(Laughter)
Honest Abe, when he wore that hat, that was tough to beat. But I cant do that, that hat wouldnt work for me. Yeah, I have better hair than him. But Honest Abe was tough to beat. Remember we used to do that during the campaign. They used to say, when I speak, the crowd would be crazy, Id go crazy we would all go crazy. We had a lot of fun together. We had 25,000 Weve never had an empty seat. From the day I came down the escalator, with a potential unbelievable woman who became a first lady.
(Applause)
The crowds loved her, the people love her.
But weve never had an empty seat, not one. I really believe that. There was one case where we had a tremendous snowstorm, and it was just about frozen. It was like a monster storm, I dont even know how it got there. I said, hows the crowd? Its just not full, sir. I said what does that mean. Theres like two seats on top. Thousands and thousands of people couldnt get there. So they show pictures of the empty seats. The worst storm theyve had in years. They show pictures of like nine empty seats. They could have been people just went to the bathroom together.
(Laughter)
I always say just get the biggest arena. Good location if you can, but get the biggest arena. We did it the other night, Tuesday night. We had two congressmen, one who was possibly going to win, he was up by two, he won by about 27, I think, or something like that. A lot. The other one was down by 17. And they said, Sir, dont campaign for him please. Why? Because if he loses, theyre going to kill you, the press. I said theyre going to kill me whether I campaign or not. Itll make it a little bit worse. Theyll say he worked and he failed. Trump failed. The guy was down 17 points and he ended up winning by a lot. In fact, the whole night, CNN. . . (inaudible)
TRUMP: The studio was going to stay up for weeks, and toward the end of the night they were taking it down. Their so-called stars were leaving. They dont have many stars. But they were taking the stars were leaving. The candidate Dan Bishop won by a lot. He was down by 17, and they had lines a mile long. I mean the lines going into those voting booths were unbelievable. And without the rally speech, and a couple of tweets and Twitter stuff is good. We have like way over 100 million people on six or seven different platforms. Its actually much higher than that, higher than just about everybody. And it helps. It helps. They have signs oftentimes when I speak. This woman the other night, beautiful woman, shes got a son: Please keep tweeting sir, it matters. And it does matter, because we get our voice out. If we dont do that, we dont get the voice out.
I cant say what a great job Kelly [Craft] is doing, and I cant say what a wonderful husband he is. Look at how devoted he is. Hes a rich man, too. Hes loaded. What are you doing here? Why are you working? Hes so proud of his wife he cant leave his office. Thats really great though, huh? Are you all proud of her? He said very much. And hes really a fantastic guy, hes been a friend of mine for a long time. Before I met Kelly, I met Joe [Craft]. And Joe impressed me because of his knowledge of energy. Now he could be paid O.K., youre going to pay a guy 50 for him thats not quite good enough, although he might. He might. Its easy money, Joe, you have to say. But he would be an expert on energy, he would be a real expert. He would be somebody you would pay a lot of money to, but not Joe Bidens son.
renate
(13,776 posts)How else could they listen to this self-aggrandizing word salad and think I want to wear a hat with this guys name on it and go out in public?