Posted on 09/12/2015 5:41:04 PM PDT by 11th_VA
At the tailgate outside Jack Trice Stadium in Ames on Saturday afternoon, hundreds of football fans gathered around a tent hosted by the Republican party of Iowa, hoping to see Donald Trump. They shouted for hours, tussled with protesters and then cried Trump, Trump, Trump when they saw a helicopter they thought he might be on.
The mostly male crowd gripped beers, constantly asking when the real estate mogul and Republican frontrunner would appear. But they didnt seem bothered by the fact he was running late. One college-aged girl said: Donald Trump is just like Hilary Duff [actor and singer from the last decade], a diva. She showed up an hour and a half late to a concert of hers I went to.
About a dozen protesters arrived bearing a banner in Iowa state colors saying Students Against Bigotry. Others held handmade signs with slogans like A Vote For Trump is a Vote For White Supremacy. Things got tense as some of the Trump supporters went back and forth with protesters, shouting at them and even tearing a sign. One of the Trump supporters observed of the protesters disapprovingly: Only one of them is white.
A protester, Julian Castilla of Winterset, Iowa, seemed to patiently accept the reception that he and his fellow activists received. Its further proving our point that they are just bigots, he said.
Most of those waiting for Trump didnt get involved. Tyler Steiner, a freshman at Iowa State from St Paul, Minnesota, showed up in a bootleg Trump T-shirt he had paid $30 for online. It was his favorite shirt to wear. It causes a lot of attention.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Few seemed too concerned about Trumps history of divisive comments. As Josh Hilbert of Corwirth, Iowa told the Guardian: Trump pisses 40% of the people off but 60% thinks hes a ['effin] badass.
Donald Trump at the Iowa vs Iowa State Game- 2 minutes look at the energy. Wow!
Sounds like they all had fun....which what should have happened at a ‘tail gate’.....
Indeed!
Great Post!
60% beats 40% in an election, last time I checked. And the way things have gone in our previous elections often enough, 49% beats 48%, if memory serves.
Nice - how exciting ..
Agreed.
ROFL ROFL Love that statement
Just amazing!!! What else is amazing that he has the College Kids so energized. Just looking at them I felt I drank some of that energy drink ROFL ROFL
Me too. Haven’t seen that word used in decades, doubt many here ever have?
Who were the ‘cornholes’? The protestards?
That term used to have a whole different meaning than a beanbag toss. Of course, back then, you could explain what a "tranny" was to an eight-year-old.
Gotta love that photo of him at the link. Calm and confident.
I don’t know who decided to rename the game of “beanbag toss” to “cornhole”
but it was a really, really bad idea.
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