Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

just reported that they took the teleprompter down at the press conference...its freestyle time.

Rapping off the dome

I don't need him to go to jail and I never expected that he would go to jail. House arrest for the rest of his life at Mar a Lago would be just dandy. And then when he inevitably violates the terms of his house arrest within a single-digit number of days then, yes, haul his ass off to gen pop.

From POLITICO:

Trump simply cannot beat President Joe Biden relying solely on the votes of people who think his legal travails are a politically motivated scam, and who cheer Trump not in spite of his transgressions but because of them. Or, more specifically, because they thrill to the outrage and indignation Trump inspires among his adversaries.

There are plenty of such people — enough to power this generation’s most important political movement — but still not enough to win the election. Trump’s only path to victory is a coalition that includes many Republicans and independents who find him deplorable but think a second Biden term would be even more so.

That is why — even as the full consequences likely will emerge slowly — this week was easily the worst so far this year for Trump and the best for Biden.

This doesn’t mean the Manhattan verdict will suddenly transform the race — nothing in Trump’s history of scandal suggests it will. This doesn’t mean huge legions of swing voters will suddenly agree with Biden’s argument that democracy itself is on the ballot this fall. If someone wasn’t buying that up until now, why would a case of document falsification to cover up an alleged sexual indiscretion change their mind?

It does mean that many voters who don’t much like Biden received an emphatic, unambiguous reminder of why they don’t like Trump. The movement of even a small percentage of voters in closely contested swing states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — all must-win for Biden — could echo decisively through the balance of the race.

i.e. what frogbs has been repeating for months

If any undecided moron voter is more inclined to vote for Trump because of this, they were gonna vote for him anyway.

overheard the cashier at the local market this morning say that she wishes mrs. obama would run. and they were surprised that someone convicted of a crime could still be president.

this week was easily the worst so far this year for Trump and the best for Biden.

start the countdown for this writer getting fired

I fully expect Trump's NYT obituary (in the year 2149 or whatever) to immediately explain how his death is bad for the long-deceased Biden

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/447203932_10230574412117698_2718214041925884315_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=kSNMCL7xvM8Q7kNvgGOsyMi&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=00_AYAbeqqlRv4RBmz824BEawMaUXtExvm4jZx8yvMqV9493Q&oe=665FC37C

in the year 2525
Donald Trump will still be alive

so happy for these nerds

https://i.imgur.com/qEKDchp.png

https://preview.redd.it/all-34-counts-v0-jpa9ulu7bn3d1.png?auto=webp&s=66de3f6c4af3d903924f158f31db0712d146e7ac

he is really rambling...oof...

Are we finally at the point where he’s just gonna lapse into ethnic slurs before the assembled press?

lmao

i hope this breaks his brain and he campaigns on these specific very personal grievances in ways that come across as both completely insane and incredibly boring to low info swing voters. “vote trump to keep me out of jail” is not a good electoral platform! make him say it all the time.

would love it if merchan sentenced him to 1 year but deferred the sentence until november. would absolutely destroy this campaign with everyone except the 30% of people who like him personally by making the "he's only running to stay out of jail" thing obviously true and completely derailing his ability to talk about anything else.

I kinda hope that, in future history textbooks, this speech is printed next to the Gettysburg Address as a study in contrasts (of a functioning human brain and one that is a half-melted mass of organic soup)

What the fuck

"Some of our witnesses were literally crucified by this man who looks like an angel but is really a devil"

Merchan should sentence him to have to legally change his name to Joe Biden

"People say, 'He looks so nice and soft.'"

would love it if merchan sentenced him to 1 year but deferred the sentence until november. would absolutely destroy this campaign with everyone except the 30% of people who like him personally by making the "he's only running to stay out of jail" thing obviously true and completely derailing his ability to talk about anything else.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, May 31, 2024 11:19 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

good chance thats effectively what will happen tho he doesnt need the deferred sentence as hell be out on bail pending appeal which apparently is totally standard for this level of crime, obvs no guarantee hell be sentenced to hard time but if so

I'm trying to remember when things were somewhat normal: was it standard for a president or presidential candidate to give a press conference against a backdrop of 19 American flags?

ya

yes

No matter what happens he’ll always be a prisoner of his own broken psyche, at least

tbh I never listen to him except when y'all post a clip here and there but I'm listening now and -- goddamn.

No matter what happens he’ll always be a prisoner of his own broken psyche, at least

― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings),

he doesn't recognize there are bars and walls

kids can't have little league games anymore because of the tents and migrants living on the field. i learned that today from this great patriot.

chaits still got it

I simultaneously believe Trump is a criminal who belongs in prison, and this case is not the right one to render that verdict https://t.co/Oqdl7Yd5J1

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) May 31, 2024

Trump: We have people sitting in schools with languages where very few people have even heard of these languages. It is not like Spanish or French or Russian. pic.twitter.com/YHcUroQaKh

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 31, 2024

Trump must have heard them talking about Skibidi Ohio Sigma Rizzler Faum Taxes

Fanum

the chinese army terrorists coming into the country illegally have the best propane grills! i had no idea.

chaits still got it

Schrödinger's Pundit

lol Ned, yeah I was gonna make some joke abt how that fence he sits on has grown into his ass

Merchan will sentence Trump to a month in jail because he will refuse to eat jail food because he can't slather it in A-1 sauce and will die of malnourishment

I simultaneously think Trump should be executed for treason AND installed as World Emperor. Ask me about my brain.

Chaiter Haters united

Guy at the gym is watching the news and crying lmao

— The “Avenge JFK” Celtics (@NBABabySecret) May 30, 2024

cry more

i just went to a hipster coffee bar and everyone there was crying and firing shotguns

trump was low energy. and sad looking. like a drunk guy on one of those bodycam videos i watch on youtube trying to explain to the cop why he was fine and should be driving and how he always drives on this road and there was no reason to stop him. even though he was weaving in and out of his lane and going 80 in a 40.

I saw a boomer cryin' over a piña colada at Trader Vic's

don't look back
you can never look back

Fuckboys of Summer

seems like he's blatantly violating the gag order yet again

if you like pina coladas
and falsifyin' the reign

"Trump Lashes Out With Misleading Speech" is the full width headline at the times right now.

lot of speculation over how an emphatic conviction will affect voters, but less over whether it will cause smooth-brained both-sides journalists to stop equivocating, which is an interesting possibility.

(obviously not chait, he's going to keep digging)

It's not far to never never land
No reason to pretend
And if the wind is right you can find the joy
Of innocence again
Oh, the canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see, believe me

Jailing
Takes me away to where I've always been meant to be

(obviously not chait, he's going to keep digging)

and peter baker

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/us/politics/biden-trump-guilty-verdict.html

why does it still surprise me how all in 100% pro-trump the republicans are? they are really going down with the ship. its crazy. are they really that frightened of coal miners and nascar moms or do they really think they will get all the crap they want from him when he's president again? or are they just insane masochists? they are probably all of the above. have there ever been this many cowards in power?