Dumb question- what was so special about TFG coming down an escalator?

[XanaDUer2]

it's referred to all the time. To me, it's just the asshole coming down an escalator.

Is this when he announced his candidacy? It's referred to like Washington crossing the Delaware.

Is it a momentous incident in American history?

[Sneederbunk]

1. America's descent into Hell.

[smirkymonkey]

24. +1000

Thread winner. If we had only known at the time what damage he was capable of creating.

[Haggard Celine]

2. It's dramatic.

The imagery is like a god descending to touch us mere mortals. Yeah, as if.

[Delmette2.0]

3. There are no dumb questions.

My take on it was that TFG was coming down to the unwashed, uneducated masses to bestow his thoughts on what was wrong with the USA. Always remember that he never shook hands with his supporters or got very close to any of them.

[XanaDUer2]

5. was this the American carnage speech?

[Delmette2.0]

6. I didn't know that his speeches were named, they all sound the same.

[lapfog_1]

11. This was the "Mexicans are rapists"

They are not sending us their best, they are sending rapists and murderers..."

The American Carnage speech was his inaugural speech

[mentalsolstice]

16. "Well, that was some weird shit."

Never thought I would quote GWB!

[moose65]

18. That was his inaugural speech

Where he spent the entire speech telling us how horrible America was. If a Democrat had given that speech, the right wing would have revolted. Instead, WE were all revolted. 🤮

[niyad]

19. the "American carnage" speech was his dystopian rant to start his insane reign of terror.

[XanaDUer2]

21. well, he certainly caused carnage nt

[global1]

4. He Didn't Trip Or Fall.....

and he made it all the way down to the bottom (that is after he made it to the top of his game). Now he's a bottom feeder and going down fast without the help of an escalator this time.

[sciencescience]

7. yes that's when he kicked off his candidacy

I think it's also memorable because no one else does it so awkwardly like that. Everyone can just see you waiting on an escalator instead of coming out on stage to applause.

[XanaDUer2]

9. Thanks

it was just referred to again on tv

[malaise]

8. It was a metaphor for how low he'd drag everything down to his level

[XanaDUer2]

10. lol

[empedocles]

13. Or a metaphor for traitortrump was all downward from the beginning.

[boston bean]

12. He can't do stairs

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Thread Win!

Good one, BB!

[moose65]

17. Or ramps

[kentuck]

25. He is very fearful of stairs...

...for some reason...


And ramps.

[Brother Buzz]

15. There was NOTHING special about that bit of staged theatrics, and it was staged

Hell, there were paid actors (Well, I assume they got paid) staged up on the mezzanine mysteriously wearing Trump for president shirts and holding banners

[niyad]

20. you forgot the golden part. Fake gilded escalator for a fake human.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

22. Yes, it's when he announced his candidacy and no one thought he would win. Also, a Simpsons

episode included it in the storyline and it got a reputation for being prescient, even though it was produced after the real-life escalator run.

[Politicub]

23. It was a PR event and promoted as such by a PR team. There was

nothing spontaneous about it. Or anything special really.

Trump’s PR team shaped the story and pitched it to the media. They showed up and covered it exactly as it was spoon fed to them.

Trump has a feral instinct for drawing media attention. He lives for it.