Trump’s microphone goes on the fritz at a Wisconsin rally, he starts complaining about “working my ass off” and “blowing out my damn throat” and asks the audience if they want to “see me knock the hell out of people backstage”.
“So you thought you might like to go to the show… (DUH DUH DUH OOOOOO…)”
You know, I saw Roger Waters do The Wall live in 2011, and for “In the Flesh?” and its reprise they did a grand scene onstage that was meant to represent a Hammer rally, with goose-stepping soldiers in uniform carrying flags and all.
He was a little prophetic. It’s a shame he’s a stooge for Putin these days.
Actually, I would love to see that.
It would probably look like a scene from The Simpsons where Mr. Burns gets tough. Trump punching some 20 year old tech who just stands there telling him to please stop.
I would not want to see anyone get hurt (not that I think the feeble old man would really be capable of delivering much of a beat-down), but I would love to see him get arrested for assault and battery.
Are you kidding? It’d be one of those playacts where he tells his security guys to hold him back and saying the other guy is lucky they were there to stop him
Elon is the one who likes batteries.
Or have his security guy hold the person back so Trump can posture.
No wonder he’s frazzled. IIRC, that was about the same percentage chance Hillary enjoyed in 2016.
I mentioned in the CS movie thread that I’d watched The Apprentice, the movie about Trump’s formative years being mentored by the ruthless and sociopathic lawyer Roy Cohn – the guy whose sordid life included a string of legal successes achieved by blackmail, and notable for his unconscionable defense of Joe McCarthy. Although there wasn’t much in the movie we didn’t already know, here are a few specific things I learned.
Cohn taught Trump the three rules of success in life (paraphrased):
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Attack, attack, attack! If someone tries to attack you, hit them back ten times harder.
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There is no absolute truth. Truth is what you make it. If you want something to be true, make it so by repeating it relentlessly.
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Never, never admit defeat. No matter how screwed you are, always declare victory.
Any of this seem familiar in the senile orange shit-gibbon we see today? It’s more than just his pathological narcissism at work here; these are values that were deeply instilled into him by Roy Cohn, a strong father-figure substituting for the one that Trump never really had.
There’s a fascinating and very telling scene near the end of the movie which is apparently factual. Despite all that Roy Cohn had done for him, putting him in contact with the rich and powerful and helping him win legal cases by hook or by crook and basically making him the success that he was at the time, Trump pushed him out of his life, just as he had pushed his own older brother Freddie out of his life when he was desperate for help (Freddie ultimately committed suicide). But in his final year, as Cohn was dying, Trump threw him a small birthday party.
Just before the party, Trump gave Cohn – the man who had made him the seemingly unstoppable and admired billionaire he was at the time – a birthday gift in gratitude for all he had done for him. The gift was a pair of cuff links, engraved with the Trump name. As tasteless and demeaning as the gift was, Trump pointed out that they were solid gold and studded with diamonds.
Later, at the dinner party, Cohn showed the cuff links to Ivana. As a connoisseur of jewelry, Ivana immediately saw that they were fake and virtually worthless. “Donald has no shame”, she said.
This is apparently true. After Cohn died, the IRS seized all his assets to pay for his vast tax delinquencies. The infamous cuff links were just about the only thing they did not seize, because they were about as worthless as the execrable excuse for a human being who had given them.
Didn’t Cohn die of AIDS? Trump is pathologically germaphobic and probably thought he’d catch it from a handshake or something.
BTW, here’s a source for your anecdote about the cufflinks;
“Solid platinum” and diamonds. Which in reality were cheap pewter and cubic zirconia.
I read (ages ago) that Trump often gave similar cufflinks as gifts, pretending that they were of great value despite being cheap and shoddy costume jewellery.
Also covered in the film. Cohn did have AIDS but insisted to the end that he wasn’t gay and didn’t have AIDS (and had “liver cancer” instead).
I don’t know whether the scene in which, after the aforementioned dinner, Trump had the whole area at which Cohn had been sitting sterilised was accurate or not, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
Is that what the movie said? Because every other source I’ve ever seen about Fred Trump Jr.'s death said he died of a heart attack as a complication of alcoholism.
No, it didn’t, and come to think of it, I may have been conflating this with something else I’d heard about. By all accounts, Fred Jr did die of the effects of alcoholism, but also of the effects of neglect by his family. In one scene in the movie, Fred Jr comes to Trump’s home looking destitute and seeking help and temporary accommodation. Trump refuses to admit him, gives him some money, and tells him to go to a hotel. Whether or not that scene was literally true, it’s certainly symbolic of how Trump treats even those who are closest to him.
If you’d read a political novel in 2014, with the names changed but otherwise describing everything that’s actually happened in the past decade, you’d throw it away in disgust as unrealistic crap.
Just ask Charlie Sheen.
Had to laugh when I ran across this: “Bohemian Trumpsody.” I’ve never heard of the “Marsh Family” before, but they can sing, and the parody lyrics are bang on:
I agree – the whole family are good singers, and someone in the family sure knows how to write lyrics, too! 
Thanks for posting!
My contribution here is a few bits from John Oliver’s show last night. He talks about Trump’s various scam businesses, and how a Trump presidency would put him in a position to hugely leverage them, notably Truth Social and the new cryptocurrency scam.
But the thing that also struck me, besides the usual corruption that permeates everything Trump does, is the usual story about the company he keeps (“nothing but the best”). One might note that around half of his previous associates are now convicted felons who are, or have been, in prison, and his lawyers (“the best lawyers”) tend to get sued and disbarred.
This excellent track record of partnering with such distinguished individuals continued with Truth Social (which we mostly know all about), the NFT scam, and the new cryptocurrency scam.
The NFT scam was invented by Bill Zanker, who co-wrote Trump’s recent book “Think Big and Kick Ass” (I imagine, in fact, wrote all of it). His claim to fame was founding the adult education company “The Learning Annex”, which educated adults on such intellectual topics as “How to Flirt”, “How to Cheat on Your Spouse”, and “How to Talk to Your Cat” (which knowledge Oliver opines will most likely need to be deployed in exactly that order!).
Then there’s the new up-and-coming cryptocurrency scam, which has a lofty name consisting of three random MAGA-sounding words thrown together “World Liberty Financial”. Trump’s partners for this venture are the following two distinguished financiers.
First, we have Chase Herro, the self-styled “dirtbag of the internet” whose background included selling weight-loss “colon cleanses” and running a $149-a-month “get rich quick” scam.
Then we have Zak Folkman, who used to run a service called “Date Hotter Girls”, which was all about “how to take girls home and bang ‘em” (I stress that these are his words, not mine). He’s published videos on how to lure girls to your apartment and engage in said banging.
These are Trump’s latest business associates. While both of his cryptocurrency co-founders make one despair for the future of the human race, Zak is especially loathsome because he makes me embarrassed to be a male.
That’s just great. Thanks for sharing spoons.
Well, don’t forget that Trump himself is a convicted (though not yet sentenced) felon. Which, in my opinion, hasn’t been stressed enough during this campaign.