Posted on 08/24/2024 1:49:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Donald J. Trump’s political endurance this year has been attributed in part to voters’ faded memories about why they denied him a second term four years ago.
The former president is doing his best to remind them.
Despite a carefully scripted week of campaign events aimed at counterprogramming the Democratic National Convention, Mr. Trump undercut much of his messaging with a series of off-the-cuff remarks, rants and blunders that threatened to stoke the kind of Republican anxiety he has spent much of the past month trying to tamp down.
On Monday in Pennsylvania, he struggled to clarify a previous comment that he believed the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which honors civilians, was “much better” than the Medal of Honor given to military members. On Tuesday in Michigan, he claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris had won the Democratic nomination after a “vicious, violent overthrow of a president" and called Chicago, which hosted the Democratic convention, “a war zone that’s worse than Afghanistan.”
He openly rejected advice from allies to limit his personal attacks on Ms. Harris and other Democrats during a speech on Wednesday in North Carolina. He called the nation’s first Black vice president “lazy” during a stop in Arizona on Thursday afternoon and, that night, rambled during a 10-minute phone call with Fox News. The anchors ultimately cut him off and ended the interview, but Mr. Trump picked up where he had left off by quickly phoning into Newsmax.
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The New York Times has Astroturf, gaslight and projection down to a science.
They seem sad.
Yeah imagine that, a guy that can actually SPEAK without sounding like a trained seal..that is what I like best about Trump, yeah they give him scripted stuff to say but he says F it and says what he wants go figure
A great week for Trump. The media hates that.
Wow. These people are not happy w the Kennedy thing. They don’t even have a plan
The latest talking points handed out say use the words rant and rambling. I saw trolls using those exact words in the live chat during the rally last night.
It only took two wankers to write this crap.
Yeah,his support is dropping by the minute!
They prefer speeches read like Biden.
oh yeah
Trump had an awful week
he needs more of those
The New York Times may as well be Media Matters.
The walls, they be closing in!
I think they have a file of this crap and just recycle them. They remind me of the wind up dancing monkeys with cymbals.
Has Trump ever “carefully scripted” anything ?
Trump stole the news cycle from the MSM/DNC.
What convention?
I bet RFK Jr is thinking, hey, that as kinda fun. Payback’s a biotch.
If true, how come Kamala didn’t get a bump in the polls?
Staying on script means NOTHING.
Komrade Kammy and Tampon Timmy stayed on script, I think.
And they had a rotten week.
He wasn’t denied a second term by the voters our votes were stolen by evil demons who rigged the election.
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