Trump Breaks Down Onstage
www.theatlantic.com
At a campaign event last night, Trump got bored—and weirdness ensued.

The election is in three weeks, and Pennsylvania is a must-win state for both Trump and Kamala Harris, but during a rally last night in Montgomery County, northwest of Philadelphia, Trump got bored with the event, billed as a “town hall,” and just played music for almost 40 minutes, scowling, smirking, and swaying onstage. Trump is no stranger to surreal moments, yet this was one of the oddest of his political career.

This kind of behavior would have resulted in discussion of dementia and Alzheimers if it was a Democrat.

  • @[email protected]
    20•1 month ago

    I hate that I’m at the stage that I can kind of see the logic in Trump’s weirdness, but I dunno, I think everyone is missing what this event was.

    People are forgetting that Trump is an incredibly small and incredibly petty man. I think this was 100% about punishing Kristi Noem for embarrassing Trump earlier. I think it’s as simple as Trump didn’t like being on stage with Noem so he decided to act like a child mostly to make her uncomfortable. Watch the event and their interactions; watch how he responses when she speaks.

    And this is Trump so ignore the fact that none of Noem’s own stupid bullshit had anything to do with Trump and ignore the fact that she’s still a sycophant whose praise he will still accept, and ignore the fact that Trump hates dogs too. None of that matters. I really think what happened in the moment is that Trump looked at Noem, remembered that he had been mad at her before, and decided to act like a child in response.

      • @[email protected]
        14•1 month ago

        I don’t think this is credit. I’m not saying he masterminded this, I’m saying he saw a person he remembered he was once mad at an threw a tantrum like a child.

      • @[email protected]
        4•1 month ago

        I remember when America believed Donald Trump was playing 4D chess. But then we all watched in horror as he was playing Chutes and Ladder.

        • @cazssiew
          3•1 month ago

          We think that of all morons in positions of power, because it’s difficult to fathom how they got there otherwise. Despite all the proof to the contrary, we continue to think meritocracy is a thing. The prosperity gospel is one of the more overt expressions of that belief: if you’re rich, it’s obviously because you’re just the best, smartest little cookie and you deserve it all. What other reasons could there possibly be?

        • @CharlesDarwinEnglish
          2•1 month ago

          I’m not sure which part of America believed that at any time. I think at least some people watched this dumbass since about the 80s and thought the notion of him even knowing the rules of typical chess was slim to none.

          But yeah, the low-info that thought the game show he was given meant he was a real bidnessman - they might have believed that. And of course, the “liberal media” kept telling everyone he was going to pivot into being “presidential” just about any minute now, so they were spinning something very much the same, and hell, some of them might have even believed their own bullshit, too. I think far too much of the Beltway media is into huffing each others’ farts and exclaiming how great they smell.