Posted on 05/23/2019 7:02:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump singled out four of his challengers for ridicule on Tuesday, mocking Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Beto O’Rourke and Bernie Sanders and predicting one of them will win the 2020 Democratic nomination.
‘Boy, you got some beauties there!’ he said during a speech in Louisiana about energy infrastructure. ‘Three hundred and fifty million people and that’s the best we can do?’
‘It’s going to be one of these people,’ he said. So far 23 different Democratic White House hopefuls have declared their candidacies.
He poked fun at O’Rourke for quickly losing what a month ago looked like juggernaut momentum. He jeered Sanders as a lunatic and sneered at Biden’s low-intensity campaign style.
And he scoffed at Buttigieg’s name, hinting that he believes the South Bend, Indiana mayor is too lightweight to warrant real criticism.
‘I think we’re going to win it big,’ he said, forecasting a second term in the White House.
‘I’m looking at the competition. You sort of dream about competition like that, but who knows?’
‘I got “Boot-edge-edge.” I got them all,’ he said.
Kicking O’Rourke when he’s down, he dumped on the former Texas congressman whose star has plummeted so fast that he appeared Monday in the second half of Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC program.
‘What the hell happened? Remember about four weeks ago he said, “I was made for this.” He was made for it! He was made to fall like a rock,’ Trump mocked.
‘Political geniuses, when you have to restart your campaign, history has said that that does not work out well, right?’ he asked.
Trump described himself last week as a ‘young, vibrant man.’ He said Tuesday that Biden, by comparison, has lost a step.
‘I don’t know what the hell happened to Biden,’ he said of the former vice president. ‘What happened to him? I’m looking, I said, “That doesn’t look like the guy I knew!”‘
Trump has derided Sanders, a Vermont senator, as short on marbles in the past, and continued the roasting on Tuesday.
‘You know, Bernie’s crazy! Bernie’s crazy!’ he said, drawing laughs from a hooting audience at a natural gas terminal.
‘But Bernie’s got a lot more energy than Biden, so you never know.’
‘Bernie’s got a lot of energy, but it’s energy to get rid of your jobs,’ he claimed.
‘Not good energy. You don’t like his energy.’
Trump seemed to rule out the possibility of Elizabeth Warren emerging from the pack of Democrats who now number 23 in all.
‘Pocahontas, I think, is probably out,’ he said, using his derogatory nickname for the Massachusetts senator who is now infamous among Republicans for falsely claiming American Indian heritage.
Trump has in recent months offered a direct attack on socialism, responding to the celebrity status of Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Both of those lawmakers describe themselves as democratic socialists, and regularly float policy proposals to match.
‘We do not believe in socialism, okay?’ Trump said Tuesday. ‘Is that alright to say?’
‘If we had socialism here, you’d have nothing standing,’ he said, gesturing to the natural gas terminal’s physical plant.
‘And if it was standing from previous generations, it would be falling down right now.’
DJT is stirring up crap in the Demwit pot. Let the in fighting begin. Hey Heels you’re not as dumb as those guys say. Stirring is fun, DJT is great at it.
Tulsi is as unpopular with the Dem base as Joe Lieberman was by 2006 (despite both having an impeccable Communist voting record). HI Dems are trying to run her out of office. They wouldn’t let her anywhere near the Presidential nomination.
I don’t think so...they’re all white, two are old, and none is female.
The four B’s!
Whaaaat?
The four B’s!
Cue the pinball game with the ball bouncing off Each of the four idiots!!
Ding, ding, ding! Played at an annoyingly high pitch followed by TILT flashing on the screen!!
GAME OVER!
And you don’t think those other guys are walking Petrie dishes?
Beto and Butt gigger are flashes in the pan, they won’t even rate an afterthought on CNN in two months.
My hunch is that none of the four mentioned will end up the democratic nominee.
She would need Bloomberg as VP to outlaw soft drinks to wash it down with.
They haven’t even had a debate yet. They are doing themselves a real disservice by not actually testing their front runners.
The ugly Wookie and evil Hildebeast will not enter the race as neither can win.
“The 4 b’s sounds like a rap group.”
Berno, Bido, Beto, & Butto
Harris is not a natural born citizen. Look what that got us last time. We have to make a fuss about that if she starts getting in the polls. No one has mentioned it so far. The good news is, she is so irritating that she is way down in the single digits. Hopefully will remain there.
I think Bernie & Beto are done. Been wrong before......Bob is a preening narcissist & there is something just off & creepy about Bernie. I totally don’t get the absolute loyalty he receives.
Agree, she seems to be getting a lot of coverage.
The alliteration is convenient, but it is hard to believe it will be any of those clowns. There just has to be a more serious contender waiting in the wings. However, maybe the democrats are merely satisfied to sacrifice one of these goats.
Yes, you would need a very large drink to swallow that crap.
No way, no way, no way. I just don’t see that.
Yep, she’ll do it. She’s been setting the stage for it since the last election.
he’s clearly sendign a secret message because everyoen he chose starts with hte letter B
My mom who is 83 & a bleeding heart liberal won’t come right out & say it, but she truly did/does not like Hillary. I think she used up any good feelings people had for her in 2016. She was a bizarre mess. Health wise she lied to everyone.
I so hope you’re wrong.
Trump is going to pick who he runs against. He did the same thing in the last election. Successful people do the same thing. They narrow down the target and then they zero in.
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