It wasn’t a rally, it was a deeply weird press conference where he rambled on mostly pretending relining the reflecting pool behind him was some kind of triumph of his presidency.
He is so going to game it to a win in his favour. You are fucked America. Vote like your life depends on it and after he steals it from you fight. Finally get off your collective asses and do something.
Murikkkans, lololololololololololololol! You know they will fuck this up. Always have!
Ha, no.
He’s going to lose.
I also encourage you to get off your collective asses and stop using the US dollar to trade, stop using the US military to train and support your military, stop accepting US aid, and stop enabling the USA.
Your country is likely smaller and definitely has a much weaker military and police force, so this should be as easy as pie for you, no? Do the right thing and stop being so lazy!
Hey don’t be mad at me your country is a shithole that’s not on us that’s on you.
I talk to people and no ones fucking paying attention. People are like frogs in a boiling pot. No idea what’s going on and just watching tic tok and Instagram.
I know a lot of black people who are listening to far right podcasts
Hispanic voters are suicidal with their votes because they think they’re considered white
American minorities are going to be beaten down to back to before the 60s
Saw a lot of articles about Trump that were exactly like this right before Kamala lost.
That was more about the stupid shenanigans Biden tried to pull when he knew he couldn’t handle another term. Running Kamala was a last resort that might have even worked if they didn’t force her to take on the team that lost the election for Hillary.
What lost the election for her was Gaza. The Biden/Harris Admin was perfectly happy allowing Israel to do anything they wanted, as long as the campaign money kept flowing.
Then they realized too late how outraged people were about the obvious genocide in Gaza, and yet she still couldn’t bring herself to condemn it. Genocide is a red line that many, many people won’t cross, and won’t ignore, especially when it’s OUR tax money paying for it.
The Democrats actually thought that Americans would be okay with an entire oppressed population being systematically murdered by our proxies, which says a lot about them. That situation helped push me even further Left/Socialist.
I’m speaking more to the “crowds don’t show up to Trump rally, can’t fill seats, leave early” sorts of articles. I’m sure a lot of blue voters who stayed home thought they had it in the bag.
i remember when presidents didn’t have rallys regularly while they were in office.
It’s like they had another important job to do besides campaigning…
Designing a ballroom?
If only it was just the ballroom! If you have 24 minutes, there is this great history run down on Trumps ballroom and how in the grand scheme of things is actually one of the most normal things of his presidency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUxdsySDsUw
It is just everything else that he does is a wild typhoon of cruel stupidity.
A lot of the things Trump does bother me, but the constant rallies are the thing that I worry might set a precedent.
I actually don’t mind it. Regular direct communication with the public? That’s an improvement from Biden, who disappeared and rarely spoke to the press.
Don’t get me wrong: I hate what Trump SAYS at his rallies. But the rallies don’t bother me.
Town halls are better, though.
What bothers me about rallies is that they’re about rallying people, not conveying information. They’re about making a group of people feel stronger and more powerful. When he’s at a rally, he isn’t being the president for the whole country, trying to bridge divides and unite people. He’s instead trying to tell one group of Americans that they’re the real America, and that the rest of the country is full of evil.
You could theoretically have rallies that tried to make Americans be their best selves. But, most of the time rallies are about inflaming one group against another group, so I’d rather there be no rallies.
What bothers me about rallies is that they’re about rallying people, not conveying information.
That’s why Trump loves them, he has never conveyed anything resembling information in all his time. A lot of dog whistling hurtful things, but not information.
I get that, but these are also a tool for political revolution.
Bernie Sanders and AOC hosted a series of nationwide rallies against oligarchy in 2025. When they started, the political pundit class ridiculed these as out of touch. Oligarchy? That’s just a thing in Russia. Americans don’t even know what that is.
… cut to today. Oligarchy is a mainstream concept. They rallied people – not just folks like you and me, but a lot of normie #resistance liberals who were convinced in 2018 that Trump was an aberration on a well-functioning meritocratic American government – to shift political consciousness and organize in their communities to resist fascism.
Rallies are a tool to educate, motivate, and build public pressure, and can absolutely be used for good.
Neither Bernie Sanders nor AOC are the president (yet). Rallies are fine by a political party or politician. It’s different once you’ve won the office and are supposed to be governing on behalf of all the people.
I like the aquarium they put him in.
If you look at the camera footage of him rambling on there are people walking by at the other end. So presumably it’s to stop some passer by taking pot shots at him from behind.
Nah, it’s an aquarium, his species needs warm, moist air.
Be better if it was full of water.
full of
wateracid
Be better if it was full of water.
What a cruel, selfish person, and all those who freely chose him and others from the trash party.
Is that real? Jfc
Not really. It was a press conference, not a rally.
Is this like a Hollywood “true story”, or is this really real?
What a pathetic little pedophile
Ain’t nothing little about that man except his hands and penis according to Stormy.
Nobody wants to hear a pig speak unless you were promised bacon
Americans never learn. Republicans will remain in power, in the Senate and quite likely the House.
There will be a lot of vote manipulation for sure, to tilt the scale in favor of rapeblicans. As Serbia and Hungary has shown, there’s an amount of voter turnout that cannot be manipulated, unless they completely give up the appearance of democracy (that is, a coup). There’s a chance for both. More chance for a coup, less chance for Americans hauling their asses to the voting booths in large enough numbers, but there’s a chance.
My sib in Christ, he has said specifically that he will use the army and violence to stay in power past the legal framework. We do not have to guess
To be fair, nothing he says can be taken at face value. They might try to use violence to stay in power, but Trump saying so is no indication for one way or another
No it is not being fair. No president can blame that they were just talking shit and then sometimes not. It is not being fair that he can pretend he didn’t mean it. No other leader has had that privilege except cult leaders, which he has become. I will never not take his hate as a joke when he is also enacting it
He’s saying a lot of things. Maybe he will try.
It’s slightly possible they keep the senate but far outside the realm of reality that they keep the house.
anything is possible unfortunately. That’s why everyone with a respect for civilization needs to go and vote. And try to convince their MAGA relatives and acquaintances to stay home.
Those billionaire-owned media companies will always have their people there to keep that train rolling for as long as possible.
And most of them seem to be journalists.
Pathetic…
It looks like one of those tilt shift images where it makes everything look like it’s a quarter inch tall.
Just his hands
Fitting
And still. Someone just the other day from Iowa:
“OPEC is screwing us. They don’t want him elected so I’m voting R all down the ticket.”
