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wordpix

(18,652 posts)
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 04:04 PM Feb 2017

Lame Manhattan Rally Draws 50 Lonely Trump Supporters

http://reverbpress.com/politics/lame-manhattan-rally-draws-50-lonely-trump-supporters/



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So what’s a right-wing propaganda outlet like Fox News to do when the monster they helped to create is floundering and risks destroying all their hard work? Well, on Super Bowl Sunday they took to the streets themselves (see video below). Specifically, the street in front of Trump Tower. Their crack news team covered a pro-Trump demonstration in New York City complete with “Fox News Alert” banners. Correspondent Brian Llenas was on the scene to report that:

This is the heart of New York City. We’re used to seeing protests – anti-Trump protests – here in in New York City which voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton. But this is a pro-Trump rally. About 50 to 100 people have been here since noon. And they say they’ve really just had it with the disrespect over President Trump. They believe that people should be respecting him, giving him a chance. […] This isn’t a big protest by any means. But it is noteworthy that it is a pro-Trump protest in the heart of New York City.

Noteworthy? Not really. What’s noteworthy is that only 50 people showed up in Trump’s hometown of more than eight million. Maybe Fox News should hold off on the “Alerts” until they get at least 50,000. Although that would still be only one-tenth of what the anti-Trump protests drew. Llenas said the Trumpsters see the anti-Trump protests “ridiculous.” That was just before he observed that some of them were holding pacifiers. How appropriate. They think Trump’s opponents should stop being babies and support their president. But isn’t that the childish thing to do? Just shut your mouth and unquestioningly obey your parents/leaders.
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Lame Manhattan Rally Draws 50 Lonely Trump Supporters (Original Post) wordpix Feb 2017 OP
These 50 people are real Americans. guillaumeb Feb 2017 #1
Hey! These people are one in a million... Motown_Johnny Feb 2017 #2
Only 50-100? SeattleVet Feb 2017 #3
You could probably get a bigger crowd in Al-Awraj for Saddam Hussein gratuitous Feb 2017 #5
Those that know him the best, and all that, you know. SeattleVet Feb 2017 #8
50 Manhatten Trump supporters? Kber Feb 2017 #4
They probably had to import some. nt SeattleVet Feb 2017 #9
And you would think that since he is such a "good business man" logosoco Feb 2017 #6
apparently he's not liked in NYC wordpix Feb 2017 #7
Sad. Trump has never been able to generate crowds because he has no supporters agenasolva Feb 2017 #10

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
1. These 50 people are real Americans.
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 04:10 PM
Feb 2017

As opposed to the millions of America haters that have protested all across the nation.

Sad, very sad.

 

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)
2. Hey! These people are one in a million...
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 04:12 PM
Feb 2017

Well, literally one in about 171,000... but you get my point.



SeattleVet

(5,477 posts)
3. Only 50-100?
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 04:13 PM
Feb 2017

I bet it looked like at least a million and a half to tRump and Spicer. Yuuuuge support! The BEST support!

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. You could probably get a bigger crowd in Al-Awraj for Saddam Hussein
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 04:44 PM
Feb 2017

Pathetic that Trump's home town could turn out only a few dozen supporters for him.

SeattleVet

(5,477 posts)
8. Those that know him the best, and all that, you know.
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 06:46 PM
Feb 2017

He got somewhere around 10% of the vote in NYC, too. New Yorkers have a LONG memory, and there are still those that will never forgive him for having the Art Deco friezes on the Bonwit-Teller building destroyed in an overnight attack rather than delay the start of demolition for his tRump Tower building by a week or two (the Metropolitan Museum of Art had promised to remove and conserve them).

http://artwatchinternational.org/articles/donalds-demolition

logosoco

(3,208 posts)
6. And you would think that since he is such a "good business man"
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 04:47 PM
Feb 2017

that he would have more supporters in the place where he has done so much business over many decades!

 

agenasolva

(87 posts)
10. Sad. Trump has never been able to generate crowds because he has no supporters
Mon Feb 6, 2017, 06:51 PM
Feb 2017

Remember how much bigger the Hillary rallies were and how the media tried to hide it?

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