Posted on 08/23/2017 7:56:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Trump just showed why even some Republicans question whether he has the temperament and the capacity to serve as President.
In an incredible performance at a raucous Arizona rally Tuesday, Trump rewrote the history of his response to violence in Charlottesville and reignited the culture wars.
Trump in effect identified himself as the main victim of the furor over the violence in Virginia, berating media coverage for a political crisis that refuses to abate over his rhetoric on race.
"They're trying to take away our culture. They're trying to take away our history," Trump said, blaming "weak, weak people" for allowing the removal of statues commemorating the Confederacy.
Yet Trump's freewheeling speech, taking down establishment enemies one-by-one, was warmly received in his crowd, and will likely prove highly popular with the loyal core of voters who drove him to the GOP nomination and the White House. Those voters will lacerate media coverage of a speech that broke free of behavioral norms for the presidency, voter anger certain to be fueled by news outlets sympathetic to the President.
In effect, Trump's rhetoric on Tuesday amounted to an implicit warning about the wrath of a substantial sector of the Republican voting base should any party leaders seek to isolate or reject the President.
Outside the Phoenix Convention Center where the President spoke, police used gas canisters to disperse a crowd of anti-Trump protestors.
It was an eloquent metaphor for the political fury that has built through a broiling August, in which Trump has consciously widened political divisions in a bid to stabilize his reeling presidency.
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“Blah, blah, blah...”
STFU, Commie News Network.
The confederacy was all Democrats. They want to erase their racist past.
The legacy left-wing fake media hate Trump.
He just won’t back down and throws the truth into their face.
They have never had to deal with a republican like this. They expect republicans to back down immediately and issue an apology. Like they always DID.
The democrats and their fake media slaves are going to get crushed in 2018. They have learned nothing.
Trump is better than ever.
Screw CNN. Communists New Network. CNN is pure trash and nothing but worst than fake news but totally anti American.
But but, What Happened To RUSSIA??!?!?!
Trump rallies make be a proud supporter. He makes the fake media heads explode - so fun to watch.
Rampage means "to riot."
In the whole CNN complex they don't have one thesaurus or dictionary, or access to the Internet?
You know it did just by the overly defensive reports and the added "color" to change reality into their version.
Your “news” network is the problem! you deliberately distorted what he said. You are traitors to this country. STFU!
Trump on the rampage in Arizona
As usual, unmitigated Bullshit from the Communist News Network.
>>taking down establishment enemies one-by-one
That’s the only true part of this donkey of an article.
We know that they don’t have one brain between the lot.
I agree with you!
The media has lost it’s grip on reality can’t deal with facts stomp feet like a child they have reached the point of useless information and can’t deal with the fact that liberalism is a dead end street.
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