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The election is in three weeks, and Pennsylvania is a must-win state for both Trump and Kamala Harris, but during a rally last night in Montgomery County, northwest of Philadelphia, Trump got bored with the event, billed as a “town hall,” and just played music for almost 40 minutes, scowling, smirking, and swaying onstage. Trump is no stranger to surreal moments, yet this was one of the oddest of his political career.

This kind of behavior would have resulted in discussion of dementia and Alzheimers if it was a Democrat.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I hate that I'm at the stage that I can kind of see the logic in Trump's weirdness, but I dunno, I think everyone is missing what this event was.

People are forgetting that Trump is an incredibly small and incredibly petty man. I think this was 100% about punishing Kristi Noem for embarrassing Trump earlier. I think it's as simple as Trump didn't like being on stage with Noem so he decided to act like a child mostly to make her uncomfortable. Watch the event and their interactions; watch how he responses when she speaks.

And this is Trump so ignore the fact that none of Noem's own stupid bullshit had anything to do with Trump and ignore the fact that she's still a sycophant whose praise he will still accept, and ignore the fact that Trump hates dogs too. None of that matters. I really think what happened in the moment is that Trump looked at Noem, remembered that he had been mad at her before, and decided to act like a child in response.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

You're giving him far too much credit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I don't think this is credit. I'm not saying he masterminded this, I'm saying he saw a person he remembered he was once mad at an threw a tantrum like a child.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah this is just what is happening when a bunch of sycophants humor an Alzheimer's patient.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I remember when America believed Donald Trump was playing 4D chess. But then we all watched in horror as he was playing Chutes and Ladder.

[–] cazssiew 2 points 1 hour ago

We think that of all morons in positions of power, because it's difficult to fathom how they got there otherwise. Despite all the proof to the contrary, we continue to think meritocracy is a thing. The prosperity gospel is one of the more overt expressions of that belief: if you're rich, it's obviously because you're just the best, smartest little cookie and you deserve it all. What other reasons could there possibly be?

[–] Carrick1973 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How can people not see that he doesn't even want to be president? The only reason he's doing this is to keep his sorry ass out of jail and to squeeze as much money from his base as possible. If he wins he's going to spend at least half his term at Mara Lago playing golf. That means his fucking kids will be running things. Fuck this timeline where people would rather run around the China store breaking as much shit as possible rather than try to fix anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

It doesn't matter whether he wants it. Something near half the country is going to vote for him, and the result will be that the grifters around him hold power if he wins.

[–] GroundedGator 4 points 4 hours ago

This kind of behavior would have resulted in discussion of dementia and Alzheimers if it was a Democrat.

Kamala's hay fever did get turned into a mountain by Trump

https://youtu.be/ji2Z1B2MdMw

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

One of the strangest elements of this story is that the Village People and Rufus Wainwright are on the Trump campaign playlist.

[–] CharlesDarwin 35 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Weirdness - very on-brand for the cons, who are total freaks, and not in a good way of being a freak.

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