Obviously he’s just retreating back into the senile fantasy world of the 2016 campaign, where he didn’t have to actually do anything, and where he could just spew out bullshit all day and thousands of dupes would lap it up.
Really, that’s all he wants to do in general. He’s not running the country–just a PR campaign. Everything he’s doing now is just to desperately get his ratings up. He knows that immigration got big cheers from the suckers who supported him, so he’s ginning that up to make it look like big changes to placate those same suckers.
Meanwhile, the craven sycophants who surround him let him go off to Florida to babble about the good old days while they figure out how to cash in off of the American people.
Most of the suckers who support Trump won’t realize anything for a long time, because they really want to believe his bullshit, and he’ll always have an excuse or decoy to distract them from seeing that he’s not fundamentally changing anything.
I realize his ego needs the adulation, especially since in Washington everyone is picking on him/at him. So he def grooves on this part, and the crowds seem to love the stream of consciousness, never a complete sentence style of verbiage, as opposed to his everyday job encounters where he has to speak in full sentences or read off a script. So I do see the appeal for him.
But I’m suspicious. Is there any chance that as long as he is still campaigning he’s able to play fast and loose with incoming funds? Not unlike he did during his run. Lots of the money he raised ends up getting paid back into his corporation, for venue rentals etc, etc.
Plus what about the protection costs for a president who never stops doing rallies and/or campaigning. Is that paid for by the taxpayer? Or by superpacs maybe? Anyone know?
And how high are the costs for presidential protection in such venues? Is it much higher than daily stuff? Or on par? I’m curious because I’ve never seen this done before. And I’m always suspicious because Donald doesn’t do much that doesn’t pay back into his pocket somehow. I’m wondering if he’s found a way to make this pay somehow?
I think so. An incident of an invitee turned heckler would probably be enough to spook the Secret Service into action. After all when Hillary fainted at the 9/11 service the Secret Service became involved in what must have been a fairly low level threat to a physical attack on her. They even got in the way of a direct hit from a gun possibly disguised as a mobile phone.
The plant has been constructed. Obviously, no one will fill it with expensive equipment until needed. However, the need for the plant and the construction was during Obama’s term.
The need for manufacturing capacity is determined by advancing technology. Straight from Intel
So, let me get this straight…the plant was conceived and built prior to Trump taking office, and it may not be in production (when all those people get hired) until after Trumps’ first (and possibly last) term in office, and this is somehow a triumph for President Trump? Is that what you are on about?
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Prediction: Trump will claim his rally attendance is higher than it was. Critics will be baffled for the thousandth time in a row.
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The first sentence shows that Adams isn’t entirely divorced from this reality. But the second sentence shows it’s a very tenuous connection. Because is anyone baffled by Trump’s doing so?
Boy needs his blanky, that’s all. Same as why he held a rally in the first place.
You realize that “Critics baffled by Trump lying about rally attendance” and “Sweden baffled by Trump making up Swedish ‘incident’” are not the same thing, right?
Had my FIL and his wife over yesterday. Strong trump supporters. Didn’t really discuss Trump head-on, but enough comments were made to confirm that they strongly bought into the idea that Trump was good because he supported a decrease of the excessive regulations which hurt our economy, and that the government has too many employees.
Didn’t care to engage them other than (as a career long fed) to observe the easily googleable fact that fed gov’t staffing levels is significantly down (in raw numbers and especially per capita), to observe that my shop is understaffed. Also pointed out that at some point services would suffer, and if gov’t employees weren’t providing them, they’d be provided by private contractors - which does not necessarily reduce cost or improve services.
But my takeaway, combined w/ Trump’s weekend rally is, he could be re-elected so long as he panders to his base in the 4-5 closest states that turned the election. There are a ton of folk who are eager to accept emotional appeals. And I don’t see how liberals (or intelligent conservatives) can contest that.
Of course that begs the question of WHY Trump wants to be president - not to mention re-elected. The clearest possibilities i perceive are narcissism, or a desire to financially profit.
Though I do think that his financials have probably largely served as a Ponzi scheme ever since he got out of using his own money, so “profiting” might not be the most accurate word, but I’m sure that he’s seeking new capital at as fast a rate as possible.