He’ll speak of those, of course; but I think the main point of his talk will be to tell Americans that he’s declaring war on Venezuela. Drugs and criminals and Maduro will be the main point of why, with oil hardly mentioned, if it is at all. “Liberating Venezuelans from their criminal regime and the drug cartels it runs” will be how he tries to sell it.
Naturally, MAGAs will buy it, hook, line, and sinker. Ironically, where they were once proud to say the Trump never got the US involved in a war (so he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize), they’d pull a 180, and say something like, “You’re not a real President unless you get the US involved in an armed conflict somewhere.”
But of course in his tiny brain he’s under the delusion that he’s the greatest president who ever lived. I’m certain that he seriously believes that. Hence his vile, demented rage against Rob Reiner for daring to criticize him.
No, I think I stopped watching Very Special Addresses even by presidents I liked a long time ago.* All the salient details will be out there immediately.
*It doesn’t help that we’re knocking on our tenth year of having presidents whose prepared speeches are chores to listen to.
“Since we are under war with the Venezuwulueans, there are ties to their Administration within the Epstein files, so all those files are now classifiabled!” /s
First thought: I hope it’s not my address.
Second thought: He wishes people would listen to him read the phone book. Try again.
I hope that isn’t seen as threadshitting, because those were quite honestly my first two thoughts. Really.
Answer to the question: No, I didn’t.
And I used to be the kind of person who always listened to presidential addresses, even impromptu ones, even if I had to record them, because they came on as I was getting ready for work.
But I cannot listen to Trump. I cannot stand the sound of Trump’s voice, and it’s not the timber, I finally figured out-- it’s the cadence. It’s sui generis, and weird, and inappropriate, and bothers me to distraction.
I am hoping these comments are OK, since the “tomorrow” of the title has come and gone. But if not, please just move them. I am not trying to be a problem-- I’m just thinking a little drift is OK since the main topic of the title is no longer relevant. If I’m wrong, I apologize.
I can’t stand the man’s “oratory”.
I can’t stand the man’s words.
I can’t stand the man’s voice.
I can’t stand the man’s face.
I can’t stand the man’s “thinking”.
So… no, I don’t think I will.
So far the replies all seem to be of the variety “I’d rather get a colonoscopy / root canal / stick needles in my eyes / rip my fingernails out”. Perfectly understandable. But I’m going to go against the grain, here.
A part of me would very much like to witness him mentally unraveling live before the American people. Yes, I’m sure he’ll be pumped full of Adderall and whatever other cocktail of drugs can temporarily put off the sundowning of an advanced dementia patient, but drugs can only do so much. His public events have been limited lately, and the ones he has attended have been rambling shit-shows of crazy-- even by trumpian standards. These events though, like a rally or a Christmas address, while public and reported on by the press, don’t have nearly the exposure a prime-time address to the public will have.
What bingo-card insanity of Peruvian snake stories, hatred of Somalian immigrants, venom against his enemies, melting magnets, cancerous windmills, denial of inflation as a liberal hoax, rhapsodizing about the penis size of famous people he admires, and calling out women who look as hot as his daughter, all sprinked with S-bombs and F-bombs, might he unleash tonight?
If he totally loses the plot and has to be gently but firmly led away by an aide or two after 20 or 30 minutes of nonsensical rambling, I think I will be a little sad that I only got to hear of it second-hand.
But if that happens when can always look at the recording later, or even the highlights, or the amused commentary.
No need to actually suffer through it all.
Yeah…it wouldn’t be quite the same as the delicious schadenfreude of witnessing a historic trump meltdown live before tens of millions of the American people, though.
I mean, I say this now, but I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to go more than 5 minutes of him talking without changing channels from the actual physical pain of listening to him. So we’ll see.
One of the news outlets (sorry, can’t remember which one) reported that trump will be “addressing the world”. Not me, I’ll be in the pub.
Fortunately, by the time I get to reading the Dope on Thursday morning, you’ll have dissected whatever word salad he produced and tell me what lies he actually told.