The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump and his associates. The Creep State.

The Madison Square Garden event looked like a haunted house. Trump and the gang didn't need costume masks.

Appropriate that it occurred during the week of Halloween.

 

Fallout spreads from Trump racist rally at Madison Square Garden.


https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/28/trump-madison-square-garden-rally-tony-hinchcliffe-00185793

 

Hulk Hogan, Dr. Phil Speak at Trump Rally at Madison Square Garden

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Stand-up comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made lewd and racist comments about Latinos, Jews and Black people, all key constituencies in the election just nine days away.

“I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” said Hinchcliffe, whose joke was immediately criticized by Harris’ campaign as it competes with Trump to win over Puerto Rican communities in Pennsylvania and other swing states.

The closing message that Trump delivered Sunday is that Harris “broke” the country and that Trump “will fix it.” Rallygoers hours beforehand waved signs with the words “Trump will fix it.”

 

Three hours of Trump on the Joe Rogan show last week.


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U.S. voters are put through the misery of waiting in long lines in the rain for hours to vote, and yet Trump when president chose to not visit a cemetery with WWI American troops buried there because his hair might get wet (although he did a photo-op at Arlington cemetery in the sacred Section 60 against the regulations to promote his 2024 campaign after his entourage shoved a cemetery worker aside).

 

Trump reportedly upset about Ivanka not being involved in the 2024 campaign.


https://www.hindustantimes.com/worl...ns-react-to-viral-claims-101730075177143.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/27/g-s1-30232/trump-madison-square-garden-insults

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“The Republican party has really become the party of inclusion, and there’s something nice about that,” he said near the end of his remarks.

 

Bezos faces criticism after executives met with Trump on day of Post’s non-endorsement

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"The multi-billionaire owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, continued facing criticism throughout the weekend because executives from his aerospace company met with Donald Trump on the same day the newspaper prevented its editorial team from publishing an endorsement of his opponent in the US presidential election.

Senior news and opinion leaders at the Washington Post flew to Miami in late September 2024 to meet with Bezos, who had reservations about the paper issuing an endorsement in the 5 November election, the New York Times reported."

 

Trump supporters who bought his lies about the last election face reality in court

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"Mehta expressed frustration with the lack of knowledge many Americans have about the Jan. 6 attack in general and reflected on the number of political leaders who were so willing to cast reality and the law aside and dismiss the results of a free and fair election.

“We’ve got one country,” Mehta said, adding that unless people are willing to follow the law, to accept the election results, they might as well tear up the Constitution, the document that officials take an oath to protect and uphold."

 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.12991

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"Trump's call for loyalty and claim that he “alone can fix it,” we argue, appeal to a desire for discipline by giving a cause individuals can (and must) fully commit to. Trump demands commitment well beyond that implied by typical politicians in democratic systems. He denigrates not only ideological and electoral opponents but also those who might share power or authority within his ideological and political cohort. He is a jealous political leader and does not brook divided or shared loyalty. Citizens who sense this and are inclined to high levels of Self-Discipline, we argue, find the allure of Trump's leadership appealing because it meets a basic need making them susceptible to personalistic, loyalty-demanding leaders."

 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.12991

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"The American Psychological Association (2022) defines the phenomenon of a personality cult as “exaggerated devotion to a charismatic political, religious, or other leader, often fomented by authoritarian figures or regimes as a means of maintaining their power.” This reflects the concept's historical association with authoritarian regimes using state-controlled media and education for mythmaking around a leader, while stifling criticism (Plamper, 2012: p. xvii). It is therefore surprising to see it frequently used about supporters of a recent U.S. president (Figure 1)."

 

Damn. I hate that they even allow people to stand out there and campaign like that. I would lose it and be like- “Hey - STFU already!!”
And I’m sure that “I” would be the one hauled off to jail.
I voted on the first day of early voting- 2nd one in line. Got there an hour and a half early, anticipating the madness, but no issues, other than realizing that I forgot my @&$#% WALLET !!!

 

The billionaires bowing to trump are COWARDS!

That includes Musk, Bezos the bozo and the owners of the LA Times and NY Times.
If they backed Harris they wouldn't need to fear.

But now there WILL be a consumer backlash if Trump gets elected, or they back his attempts to fight his loss.

One of the few Billionaires backing Harris is Mark Cuban. Also Oprah, Beyonce and Swift.

 

Oh, and there was one big fat slob hanging by the entrance, who shouted "oh, the wait time is two hours..." Oh really? "Sure, yup, two hours - I wouldn't like to you, I'm a republican..." What a jackass.

Oh, and it's NEVER the democrats, just the crazy tRumpers. They stare you down the instant you leave the car, and it's oh boy, here it goes...then they start yelling and shoving papers at you and waving banners. Yeah, it was far to easy to just stick something in the mail.

 

Hillary Clinton said it best (when you read her statement in context).

"You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.

But the "other" basket – the other basket – and I know because I look at this crowd I see friends from all over America here: I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas and – as well as, you know, New York and California – but that "other" basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but – he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.
 Hillary Clinton

 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pops.12991

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"Mr. Trump is a divinely ordained savior uniquely ordained to save the nation from ruin.” Sundahl (2023, pp. 448–49) notes prominent figures in Trump's circle reference him in religious terms, including a Cabinet Secretary (“the chosen one”), a former campaign manager (“only God could deliver such a savior to our nation”), and a former Congresswoman (“a … godly, biblical president”).

To help understand U.S. politics from 2016 onwards, and particularly the unusual and disruptive role of Donald Trump, we point to Trump's self-presentation as a savior. In 2023, after declaring his presidential candidacy, he said: “In 2016, I declared, ‘I am your voice…’. Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution” (Haberman & Goldmacher, 2023). Our results suggest that Trump's attraction extends beyond policy and the politics of Conservatism or Populism. While the results across our five conjectures were mixed, the robust findings across two studies for Conscientiousness, and for the Self-Discipline facet in Study 1, are not easily dismissed and worth further investigation. We contend that, for his most committed followers, the attraction is personality-based — both in terms of Trump's self-presentation to citizens and in terms of the personality characteristics making some citizens attracted to such leadership. Trump's appeal appears to fit Sundahl's (2023) three characteristics of a personality cult. The phenomenon of a political personality cult may have arrived in full force in U.S. democracy — and could potentially be its undoing."

 

Trump is the repairman, voice, justice, warrior, and retribution.

All of the hopes of his supporters hinge on one person. They will need to find an equivalent when he is either deceased, mentally incapacitated (more than he is now), in prison, or can no longer run for president because of the two-term limit.

 

And the on-stage personality who sways to the music for 39 minutes to avoid a question-answer town hall using two fainting attendees as the excuse to do music instead.