Donald Trump on Saturday shouted out North Carolina from the stage while speaking at his rally in Pennsylvania, leading some observers to ask if the former president simply forgot where he was. Trump, who earlier in the speech admitted to going "off teleprompter" to insult his former political fo...
    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Donald Trump strikes me like nothing so much as a man who has never really known a love that he hasn’t had to pay for — Snowden

        • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          The best part about that burn, is that Trump and most MAGA’s probably wouldn’t even register it as an insult. “they’d be real upset if they could read”.

          • Zink@programming.dev
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            6 months ago

            It doesn’t even need to be an illiteracy or stupidity jab. A big part of that world sees love as something for wimps who can’t afford the actual nice things in life. The things that are flashy on the surface but hollow inside, just like them.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
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    6 months ago

    He’s barely campaigned in a portion of the states Harris has, after about a year of more time! He’s too old and low-energy to be president…

  • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Trump is too old and senile to be President. This is pathetic, he doesn’t even know where he is. Republicans should be ashamed of themselves for nominating him, at this point it basically constitutes elder abuse.

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      They abuse women and the abuse children- are you surprised they’d abuse elders too?

      But fuck them. They made this bed; they should be strapped to it for as long as possible.

  • ZK686@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Oh brother… this is just an attempt to attack his mental state because of what happened to Biden. Everyone and their mother said “Biden is fine…” only to be lying through their teeth…

    • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      What you are saying is not true. Plenty of people, even adamant supporters, were concerned about how he sounded, but ultimately said he would do a fine job because he had proven himself to be an effective executive. The only people denying, in whole, that their candidate is perfectly fine are Trump supporters. They can’t do otherwise as it’s a cult, and he’s the cult leader.

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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      6 months ago

      So, are the people saying “Trump is fine…” lying through their teeth? Maybe they should swap him for a different candidate, like Biden?

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Geriatrics who are suffering from dementia don’t belong in office. We need someone who knows where they are and what year it is.

      The Repubs should run a candidate without dementia. Ideally they would consider choosing someone who is neither a rapist nor insurrectionist but that seems to be impossible since Repubs love voting for criminals.

    • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Watch the video in the linked article. Ignore the North Carolina thing. He just rambles and makes no sense at all. He looks bad.

      Also everybody and their mother did not say Biden was fine. Many many people were concerned about his age. We all hoped he was okay because the alternative is literally unthinkable.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Yeah, this is something that happens to almost every candidate at one point or another. He has less of an excuse, because he’s not exactly barnstorming across the states, but it’s not even top 100 stupidest things he’s said.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Archive

    (rawstory, you’re a pain in the ass with your ad blocker blocker. Which is the point, but you’re screwing yourself.)

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    You can always tell when he is and isn’t on teleprompter. He’s Trump when he’s off teleprompter and just running off at the mouth. But when he tries to read from a teleprompter, he’s like a kid forced to read his book report to the class – bland, lifeless, monotone, and struggling to read the big words. Most often with his head down and looking like he’s being forced to read it under threat of torture. Watch his recent NJ speech for a couple of minutes. You can identify the exact moment when he goes off teleprompter.

    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I think that’s because he can’t really read.

      He’s just a bully class clown who’s managed to get that far without actually learning to read.

    • DrSleepless@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I think he needs glasses to read and that’s why he goes off script so much. He thinks wearing glasses is a sign of weakness or something.

    • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      That’s the fucking point.

      “Politics” are just shit you say from a Teleprompter. Trump is “honestly” pointing out to his audience that most of what he says is just political bullshit, and that’s why he’s got a huge following.

      I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. We have an entire generation of problems as the pro-Trump crowd is so anti-government and anti-politics that they vote for Trump. When Trump dies, this generation of voters will remain. Keep the eye on the prize and the long term problem, we need to not only win in 2024 but also 2026, 2028, etc. etc. until this movement dissipates (or if it never dissipates, then we need to win forever more).

      • The Snark Urge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        We already have a problem like that; nukes! And we’ve been doing great so far, it’s just like you say. You’ve got for to walk that tightrope forever.

    • ryrybang@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Watch his recent NJ speech for a couple of minutes.

      I would, but that’s a couple minutes more than I can stand. Given that I don’t want to stab my eardrums with an icepick, I’m going to trust you on this one.

  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Fwiw, he’s looking over and pointing at a group of North Carolinians that he references right before this clip, so he wasn’t actually addressing the Pennsylvania audience. But, this sort of misleading editing and attack are the kind of thing his campaign does all the time, so, tough titty.

    • Cadeillac@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I don’t know whether to agree or disagree with you. First and foremost, I don’t have the facts, so I say the following generically. We do not need misinformation to make him look bad. I am worried all of this is a ploy to BoTh SiDeS!

      • RunningInRVA@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Whatever the facts are, I can tell you that if you watch the video clip in the linked article you will hear a rambling man spout out unintelligible, complete and utter nonsense. Even if you give the guy the benefit of the doubt on the North Carolina thing, he still seems lost in his own train of thought

        • Cadeillac@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Thank you for taking the bullet, I will not be watching that man in any capacity if I can help it. This furthers my point that we don’t need the misinformation, he’ll take care of it himself

        • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.socialEnglish
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          6 months ago

          If you watch the rest of the accompanying clip, he’s also lost in his own grandiose vision of himself - going on about how he spoke for 2 hours and they wanted him to speak more, people are stealing his “wonderful, beautiful phrases”, etc. It’s clinically narcissistic.

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Hmm, your context sounds plausible, but people have been saying he is too old and has dementia to the point that he doesn’t know what state he is in. People have been saying his brain is melting from both age and syphilis, the Adderall abuse isn’t helping either.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Trump confused some in the audience with what appeared to be a claim that if Harris could become the candidate without a primary election, then so should he because he is so popular among Republicans.

    “I said, so why are we having an election? They didn’t have an election. Why are we having an election?” he said.

    . . . Wut?

    Edit: from here

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    He was OBVIOUSLY JOKING you LIBARDS but when Joe Biden called Kamala Harris the President instead of VICE President that PROVED he had DEMENTIA!