Summary

As election day nears, Donald Trump’s rhetoric has become increasingly unhinged, highlighted by a rally in Milwaukee where he simulated performing a lewd act on a malfunctioning microphone and threatened backstage staff over technical issues.

His actions, including racially insensitive remarks and fantasies of revenge against opponents like Liz Cheney, have left many stunned by both their content and political imprudence. Social media reactions ranged from shock to criticism of his behavior, with many comments too graphic to share.

Tom Nichols of The Atlantic remarked that Trump’s supporters avoid news sources outside their bubble to maintain plausible deniability about his mental instability, claiming they support him for policy reasons while ignoring his erratic conduct.

  • @[email protected]
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    15419 days ago

    malfunctioning microphone

    it was NOT consensual. even the microphone was turned off by his words and his presence.

  • Flying Squid
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    9719 days ago

    Trump also complained about the low height of microphone stands at his events and showed how he would work around such issues, bobbing his head up and down in … an imitation of oral sex.

    So… he gets around such issues by blowing the roadies?

    • @dhork
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      3119 days ago

      I mean, he does have some large judgements to pay, and a nickel is a nickel…

      • Flying Squid
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        1119 days ago

        I honestly don’t know how else to interpret that.

    • @EndOfLine
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      1919 days ago

      Putin is also of “low height”.

    • Billiam
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      819 days ago

      Nah, he just has Laura Loomer on his mind.

      • @[email protected]
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        619 days ago

        Wow, I’ve completely forgotten about her. That wasn’t that long ago was it? Is she still hanging around outside the spotlight?

        • Billiam
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          418 days ago

          I’ve completely forgotten about her.

          The only proper response when talking about her.

          • @[email protected]
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            318 days ago

            My thing is, how many of these stupid stunts have we forgotten about. It’s been non-stop for 8 years now.

        • @CharlesDarwin
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          318 days ago

          Seems like she was around for about 1.5 Scaramuccis or so. I might need a calculator.

      • Flying Squid
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        418 days ago

        No, but the stands are. Which is what he was complaining about. The height of the stand. And a microphone stand is ridiculously easy to adjust, but instead of just doing it, he decided to pretend to blow a roadie? I still don’t get it.

  • @Rapidcreek
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    7019 days ago

    “They’re eating the dongs…”

  • Optional
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    6919 days ago

    Damn. After all this time.

    “That can’t be real. right?”

    Of course it’s real. Of course it is.

    The comments on Twitter/X were about what you’d expect, although many were too graphic to be posted here:

    “Trying to make sure the campaign has a happy ending.”

    “These are the book banning folks, right.”

    “Evidently, Donald Trump’s final campaign message is ‘Hawk Tuah!’”

    “There is something seriously wrong with this person. He’s willing to do or say ANYTHING to get some applause from his sycophantic cult.”

    “He finally found something that consents.”

    “Tomorrow the press headlines will be: Trump has technical difficulties but gives rousing speech.”

  • @Myxomatosis
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    5119 days ago

    Because disinhibition is a sign of dementia.

  • @[email protected]
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    4919 days ago

    THIS is not an onion article

    This IS not an onion article.

    This is NOT an onion article

    This is not AN onion article

    This is not an ONION article

    This is not an onion ARTICLE

    • @[email protected]
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      1418 days ago

      My first thought seeing the headline was "c/onion or c/nottheonion?

      c/politics was not what I expected.

      • @[email protected]
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        1718 days ago

        If Will Ferrel did this in a skit people would be saying he had jumped the shark.

        Trump in the final week before the Presidential election for the United States of America just mimicked giving a blow job to a microphone.

        After giving it a good handjob.

        It’s on video in the article.

        It’s real.

        It’s beyond bizarre, it’s Trump.

        • @[email protected]
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          318 days ago

          I was commenting on how the emphasis changes the meaning of each of the different sentences on the comment I was responding to, not any of the context of the original post.

          • @[email protected]
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            118 days ago

            No worries, I just really can’t believe he knob gobbled a microphone at a rally that he knew would be captured on video!

      • @CleoTheWizard
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        318 days ago

        Didn’t that happen as he was resigning from the race already?

        • @wolfpack86
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          318 days ago

          I believe it happened before. He was on the outs, but it was the death knell.

    • @CharlesDarwin
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      118 days ago

      I sure do. What’s interesting is the way they used that audio, too…

  • @EndOfLine
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    3619 days ago

    He’s got a long history of stimulating oral sex acts in public.

      • @dhork
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        2019 days ago

        I did Nazi that coming

      • @Pretzilla
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        218 days ago

        Kimmel just featured trouty trump as a sex toy

        And a similar one for JD as a couch cushion insert

      • @taipan
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        -118 days ago

        Imagine looking at this and desperately sanewashing Trump to pretend that he’s not simulating oral sex with his mic at his pathetic rally.

        • ObjectivityIncarnate
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          017 days ago

          ‘Come on, of course he’s pretending to suck dick at a random time during a public speech on a completely unrelated topic!’

          Listen to yourself, for crying out loud.

          Is this monumental straw-grasp really where your attention should be focused, this close to the election?

          • @taipan
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            -116 days ago

            Go ahead and explain in your own words what you think Trump is doing in this video.

            • ObjectivityIncarnate
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              016 days ago

              I don’t have to speculate about what I “think” he’s doing, I actually saw the context directly. I know it might be a foreign concept to you, but I don’t just blindly accept without question what I see on social media. You may be content to be this gullible, but I’m not, and that’s a flaw on your part, not mine. Intellectual laziness.

              He was talking about having problems with malfunctioning microphones, and was pantomiming messing with a mic and talking into it to see if it works. He did almost exactly the same thing with an actual dying mic in his hand not two minutes before this clip.

              You’re only making yourself look like more of a pornsick coomer by insisting so hard that he, for no apparent reason, just decided to start pretending to suck a penis.

              • @taipan
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                The context is that Trump has had a long history of making sexual comments such as “grab them by the pussy” and comments on the size of Arnold Palmer’s penis.

                The other part of the context is that your entire Lemmy comment history is full of Trump apologia. You are the only person in this comment chain who is trying to explain away Trump’s obvious sexual innuendo as something else, when the video is right there for everyone to see. And a user named “damnedfurry” accusing someone else of being a “pornsick coomer” for calling out Trump reeks of projection.

                You must be mistaking Lemmy for Truth Social, because nobody on Lemmy is buying your garbage.

  • @Th3BFG
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    3219 days ago

    Fucking corporate media putting this asshat on a podium for the last couple of decades asking, “why is this asshat on the podium?” Get fucked.

    • @cmbabul
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      2719 days ago

      Annie’s young we try not to sexualize her

  • @Makeitstop
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    2419 days ago

    All the recent talk of Epstein has been bringing back memories.