# Trump launches multi-state victory lap **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 30, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442 "2016-11-30T03:15:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/81 "2016-12-01T23:19:38Z")
We’ve been assured by Mr Trump’s personal gastroenterologist that his recent complete medical examination “showed only positive results” and that his “laboratory test results were astonishingly excellent”. And in Dr Bornstein’s opinion, Mr Trump “will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”. Surely Dr Bornstein was being astonishingly accurate when making that critical assessment? ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/82 "2016-12-01T23:23:10Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > And “Kenyan” is code word for. . .? Is this a trap? Perhaps you should read the whole exchange? But if you really must know. It’s code for Kenyan ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/83 "2016-12-01T23:24:35Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > [Trump to launch ‘thank you’ tour with Thursday rally in Cincinnati](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-to-launch-victory-tour-with-thursday-rally-in-cincinatti-231923) > > Well, it has been almost three weeks since his ego has been fed by screaming crowds. Best to do this now before his fans figure out how he’s pulled the rug out from under them. Trump the chump. Now companies can get their taxes cut for sending a thousand jobs to Mexico, simply by announcing that they plan to send 2000 jobs to Mexico, and then letting Trump make his hard-nosed deal. Now the swamp is drained, because all the Goldman Sachs execs are in the cabinet. And as a veteran, I can’t wait for Sarah Palin to straighten things out at the VA (I hope that was just a very stupid trial balloon, but you can’t count anything out with Trump the Chump). ---
**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:** [December 2, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/84 "2016-12-02T00:01:17Z")
[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. > [@](#): > > \*\*THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump is coming back to the Midwest today for the first time since the election to take a victory lap in the region that gave him the presidency. \*\*The billionaire businessman quipped throughout the campaign that America is going to win so much when he’s president that people are going to get tired of winning. This morning he flies to Indiana to tout the first such win, a deal he cut with Carrier to keep 1,000 jobs in the U.S. that were otherwise going to Mexico. (He’ll tour a plant that will no longer be closing.) From there, he flies to Cincinnati for a blowout rally at U.S. Bank Arena, the first stop of a “Thank You Tour” that will also take him to Iowa and Michigan in the coming days. > > **– Like so many issues throughout 2016, from Trump’s support for waterboarding to his proposed Muslim ban, there is a wide chasm between elite skepticism of the Carrier deal and the unadulterated excitement of Trump’s base.** > > Intellectuals, conservative economists and good-government experts have many substantive concerns about the agreement and the secretive process in which it was negotiated.\*\* The real reason that the jobs are staying appears to be that United Technologies, which owns Carrier, is one of the largest defense contractors and worries about losing billions a year in high-margin business with the federal government if it doesn’t placate the incoming president. \*\*While Carrier publicly attributes its reversal to an aid package offered by Indiana, a state economic development official said yesterday that the company rejected similar terms before the election. > … Oh God. I guess it’s All Campaign All the Time, from now on. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/85 "2016-12-02T04:30:27Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I understand what you’re saying, but I’ve lived in the NY area with Trump In My Face since 1978. This is a guy who craves the cheapest aesthetic: the cheapest women, the cheapest decorators, and the cheapest victuals. No class, in short. > > I sincerely believe that this is his favorite mouthfood. I am fervently praying for a Harold Washington conclusion, preferably before January. All true. He was always “that guy”… the one nobody likes or respects, the guy they all talk shit about behind his back, the guy they laugh at because his business skill revolves around cheating, stealing and going bankrupt (again and again). No style no class. He never had any, he never will. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2016, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/86 "2016-12-02T04:43:47Z")
Ugh, the apes are still coming out to chant “lock her up” and “build the wall” at president-elect Anus Face. What a sad parade. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/87 "2016-12-02T05:30:59Z")
Good to know I’m not the only person who’s reminded of the Nuremberg Rallies. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/88 "2016-12-02T07:10:30Z")
American fascism is more akin to monster truck rallies than massive lockstep marching. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/89 "2016-12-02T08:54:22Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > That is one thing Trump would not do unless your mother was hot looking ! He would grabbing her pussy the whole time ! Nah, it’s the Heimlich maneuver, which includes hugging someone’s torso from behind: he might perform it by mistake when trying to grab for her tits. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/90 "2016-12-02T12:59:01Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Nah, it’s the Heimlich maneuver, which includes hugging someone’s torso from behind: he might perform it by mistake when trying to grab for her tits. As in the old joke, he thinks it’s " hind lick". He certainly played the role of sore winner last night with his attack on the “unfair press”. I suppose the aim is to immunize his popularity from future disclosures of his misdealing and mishandling the affairs of state. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/91 "2016-12-02T13:36:49Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Is this a trap? “No, **octopus** , that’s still a lawn chair. You walked into it and got your legs tangled up again.” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/92 "2016-12-02T13:55:17Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > The frogs’ legs kinda squick me out, though; shouldn’t this be considered a form of cannibalism? > [@soonerblue](#): > > [EMAIL=“[https://saboteur365.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/pepe-crying-gif.gif](https://saboteur365.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/pepe-crying-gif.gif)”]Pepe might think so. Oh good, I was starting to think I was the only one who picked up on that. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/93 "2016-12-02T15:48:41Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > As in the old joke, he thinks it’s " hind lick". > > He certainly played the role of sore winner last night with his attack on the “unfair press”. I suppose the aim is to immunize his popularity from future disclosures of his misdealing and mishandling the affairs of state. Holy shit. Is he deliberately trying to divide the country even worse than it is already? Isn’t this the time he should be calming the waters, not riling up the troops? This seems more like one of his vicious campaign rallies, but I’m wondering what end result he is going for here. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/94 "2016-12-02T16:01:48Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > \I’m wondering what end result he is going for here. A few minutes of adulation. That’s all there is. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/95 "2016-12-02T16:06:23Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > A few minutes of adulation. That’s all there is. If this ridiculous rallying continues at this pace, what might the end result be? Already there are revivals of “Jail Hillary!” chants and Trump shouting about the “Lying Press”, and I am honestly worried about how far he is willing to go to keep the level of adulation up. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/96 "2016-12-02T16:14:40Z")
In a word, adoration. Ever been on stage? Even if your only line “Lady Parsnips, your carriage awaits.”, for that moment, you are the focus of attention. For some people, its like the ant in the magnifying glass sunlight, except endorphins. Trump has always been an attention whore. How many here have actually endured say, twenty, thirty minutes of a Trump rally speech? Its improv, he wanders about dropping bomb lines, he’s talking about immigration, then spots something shiny over there about taxes, so he stops dead in his tracks, and then jumps. Did anyone else see him and the crowd when he was delivering his condemnation of hatred and bigotry? The crowd delivered a smattering of applause and waited for it to be over. Then it was over and Trump was back. Then it was over and he was back spreading horseshit like Johnny Applesauce. So, now you can’t say Trump supports racism and bigotry because he is on record condemning that. There, right there, see?! And here, right here among the smartest and hippest people on the planet, there are people eating that sewer soup with a big-ass spoon, “MMM-mmm, good!” (My beloved son, the Err Apparent, dropped a line about how he likes the idea that you have to be the change you want to see, but has no idea how to become an asteroid. Not my line, mind you, but I am what literary critics call a seminal influence.) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/97 "2016-12-02T16:21:26Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > As in the old joke, he thinks it’s " hind lick". > > He certainly played the role of sore winner last night with his attack on the “unfair press”. I suppose the aim is to immunize his popularity from future disclosures of his misdealing and mishandling the affairs of state. That’s because the press has finally and far too late decided to call him a liar when he is lying, which is most of the time. The NYT has been dissecting his cabinet picks with a will, and the op-ed writers have got material for a decade already. I’m sure that staff researchers are busy unearthing all the skeletons that these billionaire buddies of Trump (BOTs) have buried over the years. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/98 "2016-12-02T16:34:55Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If this ridiculous rallying continues at this pace, what might the end result be? Already there are revivals of “Jail Hillary!” chants and Trump shouting about the “Lying Press”, and I am honestly worried about how far he is willing to go to keep the level of adulation up. I’m more curious than worried. At campaign and post-election rallies, what he gets is not just attention but positive attention, adulation. Presidents in office don’t usually have that as part of their daily or even weekly experience. They get attention, sure, but the reality is that they often get more negative than positive attention. I think he may try to build rallies into his schedule during his presidency, but once he is president, it may be difficult to restrict his audiences to those who love him. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2016, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/99 "2016-12-02T16:45:51Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > … > > How’s that draining the swamp thing working out for ya, Trumpsters? [TRUMP SUPPORTER] Ha ha ha that’s just something Trump said. He says things. Ha ha ha. [T S] ---
**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:** [December 2, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442/100 "2016-12-02T16:50:44Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > , but once he is president, it may be difficult to restrict his audiences to those who love him. No it won’t. Anyone who says (or even hints of) anything negative about Dear Leader during one of these rallies will be beaten by security and thrown out. Or worse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-launches-multi-state-victory-lap/773442.md?page=6)