Why Trump danced.

[ShazzieB]

Much has been made of Trump doing his stupid little "dance" after reading off the names of the Uvalde victims. He's een getting a lot of ichly deserved flak about how tacky and tasteless it was, and some have commented that he seemed to be celebrating the deaths. I know it looked that way, but I don't think that's what he was doing.

To celebrate something, you have to care about it, and he doesn't care about those kids one teeny, tiny bit. He's not particularly happy that they died, any more than he's sad about it. He. Simply. Does. NOT. CARE.

To someone that severely narcissistic, everything that ever happens is all about him, always. Other people, even those closest to him, barely exist for him, except as props to be used (if possible), diparaged (if they get in his way) or ignored, in the great, magnificent spectacle that is the life of The! Incredible! Donald! J! Trump!

I'm sure that reading all the names of those slain kids was meaningless to him. It was probably somebody else's idea anyway, and he went along with it, because why not.

So he did it. And afterwards, he was so pleased with himself that he started doing the little "dance" routine that he does at all of his rallies.

People who thought he was celebrating were right about one thing; he WAS celebrating. But he wasn't celebrating the deaths. He was celebrating himself, because to him, that’s what getting in front of a crowd of people is FOR. He was also bringing the attention of the audience back around him lest they forget who the REAL star of the show was.

I don't understand how anyone can NOT see what a truly vile, despicable, uncaring, narcissistic freak he is. I just don't get it.

[jcgoldie]

1. You are correct

For Trump reading a list of elementary school victims of a mass shooting holds no more emotional weight or meaning than bullshitting about low flow toilets.

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. Roughly the same reason he's always applauding himself.

But I still think he's just having an orgasm whenever he does it.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. That was my take, too. He was just showing off.

[DENVERPOPS]

34. Frankly, I am surprised

he wasn't flashing the "okay" sign with both hands while dancing........That would have gotten his crowd really cheering.......


He is the epitome of a Narcissist, and Psychopath all rolled into one self aggrandizing, sub-human pile of excrement.............


For the life of me, I cannot understand how a single minority or gay person votes for this scum, or any Republican Party member for that matter..........

[Rhiannon12866]

76. Not to mention any woman, veteran, parent and anyone who cares about this country.

[DENVERPOPS]

81. Yes, absolutely Correct

Thank you Rhinannon

[Rhiannon12866]

82. ...

[barbaraann]

4. The Opposite of Love is Not Hate, It Is Indifference. Elie Wiesel n/t

[Diamond_Dog]

5. I think many of his supporters realize what an embarrassing freak he is.

But it matters not because he signed any legislation the extremists wanted. And they got their Heritage Foundation on the SCOTUS because of him.

[Beartracks]

67. He is a most useful and easily-manipulated idiot. n/t

[Midnight Writer]

6. Absolutely. He was the center of attention, and he broke into his "happy dance".

[Blue Owl]

7. One of the most deplorable humans alive

[PCIntern]

8. If he doesn't give a shit about the million people who died

Because the original Covid outbreak started in blue states, why the hell would anyone think that he would care about 21 children and teachers? Since an argument can be made that he doesn’t care about his own offspring, why is there any consideration of any altruistic behavior towards anyone at all whatsoever in the whole wide world? You don’t have to think outside the box for this guy, you have to think of a whole different box in a whole different dimension: normal, logical, sane considerations do not apply.

[OMGWTF]

61. THIS! THIS! THIS!

[Grasswire2]

74. hear hear nt

[Brother Buzz]

9. I believe Mary Trump would not disagree

[underpants]

10. Someone near him realized how bad those COVID briefings were. No empathy. Pure self promotion

Just as you say - it’s a gift to US (his audience) that he even take the time to speak to them.

He saw those briefings as free advertisement for the greatest salesman in the world. They completely backfired on him.

Great post.

[Walleye]

11. He was also celebrating getting through all those names. He hates reading, especially in Spanish

[Raven]

12. I thought he was congratulating himself for getting through the names of

all those brown kids without butchering them worse than he did.

[Ocelot II]

13. I think you nailed it.

Even politics and policies aside, TFG is a very, very bad person. If there were such thing as an Antichrist he'd be a good candidate.

[OMGWTF]

63. Shitler checks all of the boxes.

[StarryNite]

14. I think you are spot on!

To him, it's always about him. Always has been, always will be.

[malaise]

15. That is exactly what he was doing

after he first enjoyed mispronouncing their names

[Demobrat]

16. His supporters see exactly what he is.

They adore him for getting away with it. They want to be just like him and get away with it too.

[unblock]

21. this. He is the epitome of privilege.

Even the fact that he is blatantly, utterly incompetent plays into it. It's so obvious that everything he got was through leveraging his privilege. Certainly not by merit.

His supporters love this because it makes them feel their whiteness is valuable, their maleness is valuable, etc.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

50. Excellent post and spot-on.

[SkylineChili]

68. So MUCH this.

This is spot on. People I work with say, "He says what I wish I could say, but would get in trouble for."

[RevBrotherThomas]

89. "They adore him for getting away with it."

That. That right there.

TFG exposed the underbelly of what a sizeable portion of this country's population thinks. They are stretching as if confined in a small space for too long and saying YESSSSSS FINALLY.

Trump will never spend a day in jail or out of the limelight.

[colorado_ufo]

17. This. You got it right.

Defining word:. Freak.

[demigoddess]

18. he could not feel the horror or the grief the rest of us feel about this

[jmbar2]

19. He was hoping for applause from his fans

Completely disconnected from reading the names, which someone told him to do.

[kimbutgar]

20. He was doing a metaphorical dance on the graves of those brown children to show his

White nationalists a message. That he didn’t care about the senseless killing of those innocent children.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. Soulless': Trump Torched For Dance At NRA Event After Reading TX Shooting Victims' Names

TFG is an asshole and showed a great deal of disrespect for the Uvalde victims

Link to tweet

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/soulless-trump-torched-for-dance-at-nra-event-after-reading-tx-shooting-victims-names/ar-AAXQSJB?ocid=chromentp

Former President Trump was met with backlash for his bizarre reading of the names of victims of the tragic Texas elementary school shooting during his speech at the NRA convention on Friday night — which concluded with a … dance.

Trump’s appearance at the NRA event occurred just days after a gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas and killed 19 children and two teachers.

During his speech, Trump issued demands that other prominent Republicans have pushed in the wake of the shooting: arming teachers with firearms, schools with a single entryway and armed guards at the entryway. The former president praised the NRA, saying that “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”

In a jarring moment of his speech, Trump read the names of the Texas school shooting victims aloud, in which the sound of a gong was played after each name.

Trump went on to conclude his speech by dancing to the 1966 song “Hold On, I’m Comin’” by Sam and Dave — a move that was swiftly slammed by Twitter users as a sign of disrespect in light of the lives lost during the tragic Texas elementary school shooting.

[calimary]

83. Sicko.

[GoCubsGo]

23. Yup. Exactly right.

He probably didn't even know about those kids until they showed up in his teleprompter. He only cares about himself.

[Catherine Vincent]

24. I think he just got caught up in the idolatry

...and did his little dance because he knows that's what those idiots like to see.

[marieo1]

25. Disgusting piece of humanity

I want to know one thing.............why isn't DJT under lock and key? He should be in prison. Why isn't he?

[nolabear]

26. Yes. He's "performing" himself. I don't know what he's like out of character

but he performs what he thinks will get him the strokes he so desperately needs. One reason he was so dangerous is that he had people manipulating that performance toward horrific goals he couldn’t understand on his best day. I use past tense because I think his usefulness is waning fast and they’re jockeying for “America’s Next Top Monster” as hard as they can.

[Ms. Toad]

43. I hope you are right -

But people were saying essentially the same thing in 2016, before he won the Republican nomination for President. People actually hoped he would win, some to the extent of crossing party lines to ensure he was the Republican nominee.

It is dangerous to underestimate him (or those who pull his strings).

[nolabear]

71. Yeah, I agree. We shouldn't let our guard down.

The world is a far crazier place on average than I ever imagined. And I was a shrink for 20 years. I do t mean mental health issues; I mean delusion, rage, cruelty, deliberate and unwavering, in many more people than I ever imagined.

[YoshidaYui]

27. bottom line

ALL TRUMP CARES ABOUT IS GETTING PAID.

[3825-87867]

28. Nope!

His "Depends" were creeping up his crack and was too embarrassed to try to use his hands to fix them!

[SallyHemmings]

29. Has he finally jumped the infamous shark?

He is a tasteless uncaring evil manbaby.

[90-percent]

30. well, what do you know?

Frank Zappa wrote a song about this!

(With some Johnny Guitar Watson vocals I've never heard before!)

-90% Jimmy

[CharleyDog]

32. this analysis is spot on

[sarcasmo]

33. Psychopath.

[Aristus]

35. There was a comedian who used to mimic George W. Bush's self-satisfied smirk

every time he (Bush) realized he'd said something correctly without screwing it up.

Kind of the same thing.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

36. It was tRump's sadistic fuck you to the murdered, their families, & anyone who wants to hold

him, the GOP, & the NRA responsible.

He's sadistic & enjoys hurting people. He has a long history of sexual assaults/rapes.

https://www.businessinsider.com/women-accused-trump-sexual-misconduct-list-2017-12

tRump sadistically threw rolls of paper towels at the suffering people of Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria, a catagory 5 devastating event.

He knows what he's doing - He's a sadist: a person who derives pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from inflicting pain or humiliation on others.

[Kid Berwyn]

58. +1

Thank you for putting it into words, AnotherMother4Peace. He is a sadistic, depraved moron.

[nini]

37. He loves the pain

Yea he doesn’t care because of his narcissism, but he also thrives the pain of those not in his ‘master race’.

He loves it and he is indeed the type to celebrate that along with his own twisted need for attention.

[disndat]

38. I think Trump is

trying to make light of the mass slaughter if the kids to take focus away from
the clamor to do something about the NRA permissive gun laws to show his supporters
that he is solid, 100% behind the NRA.

[panader0]

39. Putting "dance" in quotation marks is correct.

His movements had the look of flossing. It's the Floss Dance, soon to become in vogue
with the wingnuts.

[CrackityJones75]

40. Don't give a fuck why. It was completely inappropriate.

[thesquanderer]

41. re: "He was celebrating himself" - he even APPLAUDS for himself. n/t

[Warpy]

42. He was dancing because he had a BIG PEP RALLY AGAIN!

Attention is what he cares about, it's all he cares about.

He didn't give enough of a shit to ask for the kids' names phonetically so he didn't mess them up. The crowd didn't give a shit about those kids, so why should he?

Too bad they didn't realize he didn't give a shit about their precious guns, either. It was a BIG CROWD. That's all.

[onenote]

44. You're right. He read the names in the first five minutes. He then spoke for nearly an hour.

And he danced at the end. I doubt he even remembered that he had read off the names. He was dancing because he was being applauded and he's a narcissistic psychopath.

[FakeNoose]

45. I think you're right - Chump danced because his public service announcement was finished

Namely, he was finally done reading those children's names. Now pay attention to ME, Me, MEEEE!
It never occurred to him how inappropriate it would be to dance.
He's like the "Drunk Uncle" except Chump isn't drunk, he's demented.

[SoonerPride]

46. 💯

[housecat]

47. What if millions of people are vile and ugly just like trump and have been thoughout history.

But since like trump, they are all pathetic cowards, and kept it to themselves. Trump gave them their big chance to be proudly seen, and he cranked up the noise and hatred and stupidity. Now that millions are "out" and trying to use politics to destroy democracy, we need a way, with or without trump, to get them back under the rock they came from. Time is not on our side.

[blm]

48. That's exactly what I saw him do. Celebrate himself

for the performance he just gave.

[niyad]

49. You are absolutely correct.

[PurgedVoter]

51. I think it was a Dog Whistle

The one thing he does instinctively is dog whistle. After reading names, Dancing to "Hold On I'm Coming" tells me he thinks the police stayed back because a racist in charge made the decision to let kids die. If he didn't think it was the police, he still thought it was a good thing. His instinct is to try and play the room and get away with more than one signal at once.

His heart though was not performing for compassionate people, it was performing for a base that has shown how base it is.

[dchill]

52. Grading himself on his performance.

[GoneOffShore]

53. Or perhaps he just needed his diaper changed.

[gulliver]

54. Most of the people who back him do see what a clownish dirtbag he is.

They just despise some of the positions some of our zealots take and ascribe them to our whole side. Trump's a missile, not a man.

[Celerity]

85. So you are now calling being against racism, being for person's right to control their own

reproductive processes, being in favour of full human rights for us LGBTQ folk, being for public education, being against the dismantling of almost all gun laws, being against radical fundie Christian fascism directing the government, being in favour of workers rights and unions, being against misogyny, and being in favour of a healthy social safety net and healthcare system..... ZEALOTRY?????

Those are the core things that most trigger and enrage MAGAts.

You said

They just despise some of the positions some of our zealots take and ascribe them to our whole side.

That is simply wrong. You are incorrectly trying to divide us up, and then trying to place the blame on one much smaller part of our party.

Rethugs HATE the very core of what almost ALL our entire party stands for, it is NOT just one small part of us that is to blame.

[Cozmo]

55. Xately

[Ford_Prefect]

56. He has danced every single time... And for an hour and 47 minutes at least once.

He is a sick piece of work and entirely the creation of his own distorted mind.

[Voltaire2]

57. This is why we suck at political combat.

We don’t have to analyze, explain the real motives, or do anything other than repeat, as often as possible that Trump danced on the graves of the slaughtered children.

[Joinfortmill]

59. I get it, and it says a lot about a lot of people. Sadly.

[Maru Kitteh]

60. You get it.

That’s EXACTLY why he danced.

[Orrex]

62. It would be terrific to see him stroke out on live, national TV

To watch him crumble into a heap of suddenly flaccid limbs, pissing and shitting himself as the perfect personification of all things Republican.

[Hieronymus Phact]

64. It wouldn't be his first time

It wouldn't be his first time piggybacking on the victims of a violent tragedy to mug in front of a camera to make it all about him.
Trump gives thumbs up in photo with El Paso orphan

[BigmanPigman]

65. He's beyond sociopath, he's in psychopath territory.

[Mike_in_LA]

66. Precisely

Looooooooooong time lurker. This is on point 1,000%.

[Solly Mack]

69. I agree. He was as pleased as punch with himself.

[Skittles]

70. CORRECT

he reacted the same as if he had been given a list of objects to read.....he is a sick, SICK POS

[Evolve Dammit]

72. Same sick fuck we have been stuck with after he lost two elections. Media can't ignore and

the MAGA cult has metastasized. Violence is inevitable and he will enjoy every minute of it.

[zentrum]

73. I don't get it either.

[live love laugh]

75. He celebrates their demise...he cares about that.

[C OH Dem]

77. My lack of empathy for this carbon life form

My lack of empathy for this carbon life form troubles me. I almost feel ashamed that I would dance after reading his name on such a list.

[czarjak]

78. "Ascending"

[ecstatic]

79. True, but let's continue following the KISS rule.

He's happy about their deaths.

Vote the gop out and do not let him be the nominee in 2024.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

80. Good assessment. And I couldn't agree with you more completely on

this point:

I don't understand how anyone can NOT see what a truly vile, despicable, uncaring, narcissistic freak he is. I just don't get it.

It's scary to me because it makes it seem as if the world makes absolutely no sense anymore. TFG could not be a more blatantly obvious liar if he tried. Quite clearly he is full of shit and knows very little about most of the things he prattles on about, yet he's got a worshipful cult who believes he's a fucking genius.

He's a feeble coward, yet they think he's a courageous superhero. The list goes on. It's mind-boggling.

[Emile]

84. The magic R has the power to make some people wilfully ignorant and blind!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

86. I was surprised the NRA sounded a gong after TFG mangled each name.

I would have thought they'd give them a 21 gun salute with AR-15s.

[Bucky]

87. Here's the video of Trump dancing

[helpisontheway]

88. Do you think he would care if it was his grandkids? Or do you

think he does not care about anyone else period? I know sometimes he seems to care about Ivanka potentially getting in legal trouble. However, does he really care about her or that it leads to him(because they are so close)?

[brer cat]

90. Excellent, ShazzieB.

You are spot on.