# Trump kicking off re-election campaign in Florida this Saturday **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 16, 2017, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969 "2017-02-16T10:33:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/21 "2017-02-16T16:46:03Z")
> [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](#): > > So what that campaigning is fun for him? > > > > > > > > > > ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/22 "2017-02-16T16:55:09Z")
Does this gathering of the Cheeto cult have a name? Like, A Celebration of Incompetence, or I Don’t Know What The Fuck I’m Doing, Please Cheer For Me You Low IQ Morons? I’m sure thousands will show up. Or to put it another way, a couple hundred full sets of teeth. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/23 "2017-02-16T16:57:42Z")
> [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](#): > > Just because Hillary needed The fact that she got more votes than trump still irritates and forces you to bring her up. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/24 "2017-02-16T17:05:41Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Does this gathering of the Cheeto cult have a name? Like, A Celebration of Incompetence, or I Don’t Know What The Fuck I’m Doing, Please Cheer For Me You Low IQ Morons? > . “Basket of Deplorables” never goes out of style. ---
**Author:** ![Zoot\_Sutra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/51bf81/32.png) [@Zoot\_Sutra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoot_Sutra)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/25 "2017-02-16T17:41:09Z")
How about “Confederacy of Dumpsterfires?” ---
**Author:** ![WillFarnaby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/willfarnaby/32/514_2.png) [@WillFarnaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillFarnaby)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/26 "2017-02-16T17:57:41Z")
This reminds me of when Republicans were simultaneously complaining that the president was busy destroying the country and that he was playing too much golf. Make up your mind. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/27 "2017-02-16T17:58:29Z")
I called it on Dec 1, 2016: > [@Trump launches multi-state victory lap](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/84): > > [The Daily 202: Trump’s Midwest swing today is the unofficial kickoff of his 2020 reelection campaign](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/12/01/daily-202-trump-s-midwest-swing-today-is-the-unofficial-kickoff-of-his-2020-reelection-campaign/583f082be9b69b7e58e45f23/) > > Bolding is copied from the original article. > Oh God. I guess it’s All Campaign All the Time, from now on. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/28 "2017-02-16T18:18:49Z")
Campaign season again? Oh, shoot, I guess the Supreme Court will just have to make do with eight until the election is over. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/29 "2017-02-16T18:24:02Z")
On the plus side, he’ll be able to reuse his campaign slogan. I’m sure there’ll be a greater need to “Make America Great Again” in 2020 than there was in 2016. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/30 "2017-02-16T18:24:19Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > This liberal meme is atonishing. Do you honestly think that Trump, with an ego the size of the universe, would allow any underling to rule for him?.. Bannon will have no more power than Trump allows him and that won’t be much. “Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.” -Josef Goebbels Yes, I quoted a Nazi in reference to the Trump administration. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/31 "2017-02-16T19:31:19Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > This liberal meme is atonishing. Do you honestly think that Trump, with an ego the size of the universe, would allow any underling to rule for him? All of his cabinet will have Trump watching their every move and constantly intervening if he doesn’t like what he sees. His whole career tells us that he believes himself to be the center of the universe. Bannon will have no more power than Trump allows him and that won’t be much. Trump reportedly asked Kasich to be the Vice President, promising to put him in charge of domestic and foreign policy and make Kasich the most powerful VP ever. Manafort said that Donald wanted a VP to be the COO of the company, with Donald like the CEO. > **[Trump, Kasich feud over ‘most powerful’ VP offer | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/john-kasich-donald-trump-vice-president/)** > > Donald Trump and John Kasich’s teams are at war over whether the Republican presidential nominee ever seriously wanted the Ohio governor to join the ticket. > [@CNN Article above](#): > > Multiple sources close to Kasich said Trump’s son, Donald Jr., tried to entice Kasich with a position as the most powerful vice president in history, but he turned it down. Kasich would have been in charge of all domestic and foreign policy in a Trump White House, Kasich sources said. > > \ > > Manafort also described the vice presidency in a Trump administration as being similar to the COO of a company in an interview with the Huffington Post in May, a role that would appear consistent with the job being described by Kasich sources. > > “He needs an experienced person to do the part of the job he doesn’t want to do. He sees himself more as the chairman of the board, than even the CEO, let alone the COO,” Manafort said. The Trump camp denied it afterwards, but given that they lie every time they exhale and also that Donald is clearly avoiding all the actual work involved, their credibility is non-existent. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/32 "2017-02-16T19:33:04Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I wonder if the Antifa thugs operate in pro-gun states. I guess we’ll find out. There will certainly be violent actors at Trump’s rally. Isn’t that a funny coincidence. It will certainly be a great excuse to amp up the brownshirting. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/33 "2017-02-16T19:38:39Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > All of his cabinet will have Trump watching their every move and constantly intervening if he doesn’t like what he sees. Would this watching eye include Trump not reading the EO that put Bannon on the NSC? You will note that despite not being happy about not being fully briefed on it Bannon is still on the NSC. Funny that. It is almost like Bannon is manipulating Trump. In any case, with watchfulness like that who needs … what’s the opposite of watchfulness … check’s thesaurus… let’s go with ignorance. It seems supremely appropriate to describe Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/34 "2017-02-16T19:51:25Z")
> [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](#): > > When a massive overflowing cheering and jubilant crowd shows up, we’re going to see how much the American people, not illegals, love Trump. Those polls showing him being unpopular will be shown to be fake. Much like the “fake news” Trump was complaining about which didn’t talk about the vast number of supporters lining the streets of Florida yesterday… probably because [the majority of them were actually protesters](http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trump-rips-fake-news-media-for-not-covering-hundreds-of-fl-protesters-as-crowds-of-supporters/). > [@WillFarnaby](#): > > This reminds me of when Republicans were simultaneously complaining that the president was busy destroying the country and that he was playing too much golf. Make up your mind. He seems to be capable of doing both simultaneously. And the complaints aren’t that he’s taking too many vacations; the complaints are that he and his supporters made a point of bringing up Obama’s vacations and golfing and yet he’s taken multiple days off in his first month in office to go golfing and his supporters are strangely silent on the matter. ---
**Author:** ![Belowjob2.0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Belowjob2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belowjob2.0)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/35 "2017-02-16T20:47:45Z")
> [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](#): > > When a massive overflowing cheering and jubilant crowd shows up, we’re going to see how much the American people, not illegals, love Trump. Those polls showing him being unpopular will be shown to be fake. > > The only question is if the Soros paid thugs will ruin it or not. > [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I wonder if the Antifa thugs operate in pro-gun states. I guess we’ll find out. Y’all may want to go into hiding until Pence is in office. Won’t be long. Once he’s in, just change the subject every time someone brings up Trump. Some of the Republicans in Congress have already go the ball rolling by refusing to say, “President Trump,” in any public statement. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/36 "2017-02-16T20:53:57Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > And the complaints aren’t that he’s taking too many vacations; the complaints are that he and his supporters made a point of bringing up Obama’s vacations and golfing and yet he’s taken multiple days off in his first month in office to go golfing and his supporters are strangely silent on the matter. IOKIARG It’s OK If A Republican Golfs. I think many of the Trump supporters were just pissed that a black man was allowed near the clubhouse. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/37 "2017-02-16T21:43:42Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > This liberal meme is atonishing. Do you honestly think that Trump, with an ego the size of the universe, would allow any underling to rule for him? All of his cabinet will have Trump watching their every move and constantly intervening if he doesn’t like what he sees. His whole career tells us that he believes himself to be the center of the universe. Bannon will have no more power than Trump allows him and that won’t be much. I don’t think you’ve been paying attention. Trump’s businesses were largely a failure till he hit on the way to play to his strength. In recent decades he has made money by lending his name to other people’s development projects. He gives them “TRUMP” and does the Big Guy act. He gets his ego stroked and feels like he’s in charge and it’s his development, while the actual developer runs things. This is a TRUMP presidency. There’s every sign it will work the same way. Sure Trump will allow an underling to rule for him, as long as he has (or believes he has) power of veto, and as long as he gets the credit. Do you think he actually wrote the words on those exec orders he made a razzle dazzle production out of signing? Nah, Bannon or whoever wrote them. Trump glanced at the words (didn’t even realise what he was signing, in the case of the NSC order) then signed and smiled authoritatively while showing them to a room full of cameras (while the desk hid his erection and the growing stain on his trousers). [edited to add: yes I’m sure someone else wrote the words of executive orders signed by Obama etc also. But you can be damn sure he (professor of law) read every single word and didn’t sign till he was completely happy with every syllable]. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/38 "2017-02-17T01:07:23Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Campaign season again? Oh, shoot, I guess the Supreme Court will just have to make do with eight until the election is over. Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/39 "2017-02-17T02:20:38Z")
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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969/40 "2017-02-17T03:44:39Z")
> [@Pearl\_Clutching\_Provocateur](#): > > The only question is if the Soros paid thugs will ruin it or not. How exactly do you get Soros to pay you for this? I’ve been to plenty of protests and I’ve yet to receive one check. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-kicking-off-re-election-campaign-in-florida-this-saturday/779969.md?page=3)