This would almost surely get front-page treatment and words like “dementia” and “Alzheimer’s” if a Democrat did the same
Headline and the article itself are both rather underselling it
There were some people that had fainted, so he switched formats to a Q&A with a speaker. A couple of questions into a Q&A he said “Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music. Who the hell wants to listen to questions” and then wrapped up and seemed like he was done, but processed to bob to music for 39 minutes without leaving the stage
The whole town hall is online, you can watch it yourself. Here’s how he spends the last 40 or so minutes https://youtu.be/bDZgox580B0?t=7447
It’s nearing the awkwardness of Scott’s Tots.
watched the crowd during “Rich Men North of Richmond” and then, finally, left the stage to shake hands on his way out during one last song.
That’s a pretty good song, and if anything is just a plea for progressive policy…
But conservatives just heard “north of Richmond” and latched onto it as a pro-confederacy song.
On August 25, Anthony released a video statement on YouTube. On the Republican presidential debate, he said: “It was funny seeing my song at the presidential debate, because I wrote that song about those people, you know. … That song is written about the people on that stage—and a lot more, too. Not just them, but definitely them.”[34] He clarified that he does not support President Joe Biden, either.[35]
Anthony said that his song has been “weaponized” by the right and the left: “I see the right trying to characterise me as one of their own. And I see the left trying to discredit me, I guess in retaliation.”[36] He said the people he wrote about in the song have “done everything they can in the last two weeks to make me look like a fool, to spin my words, to try to stick me in a political bucket.” He also addressed those who interpreted the song as “an attack against the poor”, saying that “all of my songs that reference class defend the poor”. He said of “Rich Men”: “30-some million people understood what I was saying, but it only takes a few to try to derail the train, to try to send out false narratives.”[34]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Men_North_of_Richmond
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For those who haven’t heard it:
Look at that suck up sign behind him. He’s such a toddler. I’m sure he was thrilled when some sycophant presented that to him as an idea.
The actual event is, as usual, fascinatingly cringey.
This is right after the second guy fainted, so trump’s already been interrupted twice, the venue’s tiny, and I think he doesn’t like dog killer Kristi Noem despite obvious commonalities. She was probably insufficiently subservient.
He wants security to open the doors to let fresh air in, but they can’t because of USSS measures to protect his dumb ass. Watch how he loses his mind in rage, suppresses it, and rolls it into his patter in the span of one second.
Then he says hey everybody lets all hear my favorite - Pavarotti singing Ave Maria! (Crowd cheers).
The fuck? It gets weirder from there.