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Trump sways and bops to music for 39 minutes in bizarre town hall episode
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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The actual event is, as usual, fascinatingly cringey.
This is right after the second guy fainted, so trump’s already been interrupted twice, the venue’s tiny, and I think he doesn’t like dog killer Kristi Noem despite obvious commonalities. She was probably insufficiently subservient.
He wants security to open the doors to let fresh air in, but they can’t because of USSS measures to protect his dumb ass. Watch how he loses his mind in rage, suppresses it, and rolls it into his patter in the span of one second.
Then he says hey everybody lets all hear my favorite - Pavarotti singing Ave Maria! (Crowd cheers). The fuck? It gets weirder from there.
The church people doing the both hands in the air thing has always struck me as odd.
This time it strikes me as infantile behavior. Like a child asking for their parent to pick them up... It's so weird.
I don't think he gets what's going on there, that there's people treating it like a church service. At least he doesn't recognize the symbols and gestures, he gets the "they're worshipping me" part, which I suppose is the "important" thing.
This shit is gonna stick around forever now. Ugh. I wonder if this is how the Romans felt.
I think they were too busy trying to keep the emperor from pimping their wives, or nailing them to a cross.
Thanks for posting that. He was definitely trying to dismiss the crowd with YMCA. When they don't leave, he asks if they want another song. He still seemed with it at that point, but then he just sways and does awkward dances for half an hour. He points and waves and talks to people on stage occasionally. Really bizarre. At 1:41:25, an aide goes on stage and shows him a note of some kind, then he wraps it up after that song finishes. Dying to know what that note said.
His TV is set up in his dressing room so he can watch his "Programs"
My contract explicitly says that Matlock must be available on DVR upon my arrival!
You mean "on the tee vo"
Note said Putin's on the phone. /s but not really
I have been reading different headlines all day about this. This comment and video show how bizarre the whole thing was. The headlines and short posts just seem meh. I wouldn't trust this fool to hold a bottle of water for me, much less run the country.
We're so fucked if we don't get everyone who supports Harris or supports democracy and is willing to vote for Harris to show up.
You’d be right, he’s not good at that either.
Do you think he makes them use small water bottles to hide his tiny hands?
Probably cause that's as much as he can physically manipulate since he's never done anything more physical than golf.
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That was so strange.