“See now, the press will take that, and they’ll say, ‘He said a horrible thing.’”
Ok, so the guy is a fuckwit and all, but the article has right in it where he pretty plainly put it as a joke. We don’t need to feed the new cycle with every crass bs thing that comes out of his mouth.
Can you explain to me how this is a joke?
His audience laughed because they’re dumb. But to me, this looks like the negging thing where you anticipate being called out for your insult and say “It’s a joke. It’s just a joke!”
Seems like just a straight up ploy for free publicity. He needs (craves) media attention, and saying outrageous things is his favorite way of getting to the top of the 24 hour news cycle.
He’s always on about how much the media hates him, so it’d be right in character as a way to troll them, and it’s an easy click bait headline. He may not be that concerned with the people, but it’d be a bad look to gather a bunch of people in dangerous conditions to let them die of heat stroke.
I mean, that was clearly what he was going for, and a news writer took the bait.
This is the kind of shit conservatives point to when they attack the “mainstream media.”
There was a rally not long ago where there was an issue with the podium. Some headline made it sound like he was unstable and shaking and had to hold on to the podium for stability. In reality the podium was wobbly and he quipped something like “oh no, it’s leaning to the left”. It was legitimately funny and a prime example of what his base finds charming. Yet still some clickbait headline tried to spin it in a bad way. Fucking infuriating.
Sure. “A joke.”
“Just kidding, heh (but seriously, I don’t care about you.)”
What did Trump do for Nevadans when he was president?
Exactly.
Any trump supporter reading this will see this thread and know that the Democrats are delusional because the full context of the quote shows that it was not to be taken seriously and within seconds Trump not only dismissed it as a joke but called that liberals would take this quote out of context and run with it.
Which is exactly what is happening. Besides giving Republicans more reasons to stick their heads in the sand, what on earth is the point of discussing this? Trump himself called out that it’s just more good publicity for him.
I couldn’t care less about what “any Trump supporter” may think of what I write. I’ll take “any” as “the average Trump supporter,” and we already know they are not the brightest, and they’re not to be taken seriously about “what they think about them libs.”
All I care about is that I’ll make my vote count.
the full context of the quote shows that it was not to be taken seriously
Correct. Not to be taken seriously - by them. But people know who that piece kf garbage is, and he was serious.
and within seconds Trump not only dismissed it as a joke but called that liberals would take this quote out of context and run with it.
Correct. Except that it is he who conveniently says that it would be taken out of context. Lol oh Trump, so funny! What will he say next? “All jews must be exterminated- lol just kidding see the libs get all worked up”? Hilarious! Truly a 4D chess move.
In a decent scenario, such a “joke” would have been career ending.
Ideally we just create a situation where he can’t disseminate information.
By November, Trump’s campaign slogan will just be, “Fuck you!”
Can’t wait for a shirtless Trump on a Billboard taking a drag off a cigarette and exhaling the smoke with the text, “If you don’t vote Trump… Fuck You!” Then flips the viewer off.
This was a Dutch satirical piece, a video of a politician of the ‘party against people’, in such the antisocial neoliberal is proudly staying how his party will screw people over. Indeed whilst smoking a cigarette…
The old, “throw something extreme out there and call it a joke” strat eh?
His jokes are more based in reality than anything else he says…
After watching the video clip, I’d say that’s about the highest degree of self-awareness I’ve ever seen from Trump.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Amid high temperatures at Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Las Vegas on Sunday, the former president made a quip about the heat affecting his attendees by stating that he needed their votes, adding, “I don’t care about you.”
Trump and President Joe Biden became the presumptive 2024 Republican and Democratic presidential nominees respectively in March as both continue to campaign ahead of November’s election.
At his rally, Trump spoke about the heat affecting his attendees as he made a joke about needing their votes.
Democratic Pennsylvania state Representative Malcolm Kenyatta simply wrote: “He’s finally telling the truth.”
Reiterating Kenyatta’s remarks, progressive political commentator Luke Beasley posted to X, “He finally said the truth.”
On Thursday, 11 people with heat exhaustion were hospitalized after waiting in line for an indoor Trump rally in Phoenix, with temperatures reaching 110 degrees.
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