Creepy Donald Trump]s rhetoric has become more unhinged over the last few months, something that even observers already jaded by his repeated ridiculous claims have noticed.
But a new element has appeared and that is that he has become more profane and lewd in his public speeches.
Donald Trump has pivoted to making his closing argument to voters heading into the final stretch of his race for the White House.
Or so his campaign said Saturday as the former president took the stage in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
But shortly after walking out following a pro wrestler’s entrance music, Trump swiftly veered into a rambling anecdote about the late Arnold Palmer, the golfing legend after whom the local airport was named. The story, which seemed to serve little purpose beyond invoking a regional icon and which lasted nearly 15 minutes, included tangents on Palmer’s immense wealth and several offhand remarks about the Hall of Famer’s naked body.
“Arnold Palmer was all man, and I say that in all due respect to women, I love women. … This man was strong and tough, and I refused to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros they came out of there, they said ‘Oh, my God. That’s unbelievable,’” Trump said.
The anecdote prompted one rallygoer to comment, “I didn’t expect to hear that tonight.”
…One of Palmer’s daughters, Peg Palmer Wears, told the Associated Press on Sunday that she thought Trump’s comments about the late golfer were a “poor choice of approaches to remembering my father, but what are you going to do?”
…Trump’s Friday rally in Detroit notably failed to fill the venue his campaign booked, and when he took the stage, the former president was interrupted by technical issues with his microphone. Trump stood awkwardly by the lectern waiting for it to get fixed and then vowed to stiff the contractor that provided the sound system.
Trump cursed the vice president and encouraged rally attendees to do the same, calling Harris a “sh*t vice president.”
“So you have to tell Kamala Harris that you’ve had enough. That you just can’t take it anymore,” he said to the approval of the crowd. “We can’t stand you, you’re a shit vice president! The worst!’”
So what is going on? Is it a continuation of his mental degeneration? Is it the case that the part of the brain that prevents people from saying inappropriate things in public settings has atrophied to the point that now his unfettered id is running the show? Or is this his effort to solidify his support among the bros, those who think it’s funny to say crude things in public?
“the bros”
What?
(You’ve lived in the USA for too long?_
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Good grief!
“Kamala Harris and Donald Trump Battle for the Bro Vote
Vanity Fair”
“Inside Trump’s push to win over the ‘bro’ vote
Politico”
“Hasan Piker, Gen Z’s favorite left wing political commentator and Twitch streamer, joins Offline to talk about the Trump campaign’s bro-first election
Crooked Media”
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Ah. The male vote.
Supposedly. Bros.
(Good grief! Bro!)
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(So… not bromide, then)
Bros are chads, no?
(Defs not Karens)
Yeah, I vote for dementia symptom, although it could also be his reaction to people calling him old and feeble.
@John Morales,
The meaning is more specific than that. To quote Merriam-Webster:
a young male who is part of a group of similar male friends stereotypically characterized as hearty, athletic, self-confident, party-loving, etc.
I haven’t studied the etymology but I’d guess it developed largely from “frat bro” as a contraction of “fraternity brother,” because frat bros are too cool to finish their words.
A chad is anyone who performs masculinity successfully, particularly in the getting of girls. A chad may well be a bro, especially in high school and college, but most bros are not chads; they merely aspire to the chad ideal. And sigma chads in particular are too busy grinding for long-term success to be bro-ing it up.
(And to think they told me my years on 4chan were wasted.)
I’m just astounded there’s even a contest at this point. One candidate speaks in complete sentences and is able to verbalize current accomplishments and future plans. The other candidate drools over a deceased man’s junk in front of a political rally audience, cusses and uses crude language to describe his opponent, loses focus and demands a dance party onstage, and has a weird jealous fixation on a fast-food job that a vast majority of people in the USA have done in their youth or young adulthood--including his opponent.
Fast food jobs are entry level: they’ll hire young people with little to no work experience and train them. They’re a reliable source of a paycheck, especially 40 years ago (when Harris worked there) under Reagan’s administration--nobody gets laid off because the turnover rate is so high. They’re everywhere, including the university Harris was attending at the time she also worked there. Harris is part of the post-Baby-Boom college cohort, where St. Ronnie cut funding for public education so tuition exploded but minimum wage didn’t budge, so most college students had at least one and sometimes three jobs at once to pay the bills.
But I digress. The point here is that there’s one candidate who appeases the USA’s more base, self-destructive and demented instincts and one who doesn’t.
The only thing SSADT and his supporters have in common is, they hate the same people. And both Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert have videos where Trump voters attribute him with qualities and views that are opposite to what is then displayed in clips from his speeches.
The MAGA people are full of wishful thinking. If he handed them kool-aid, they would drink it.
Maybe this is a way to defeat SSADT: convince his followers that the ultimate way to own the libs would be to stay home on election day, thus making a mockery of the ‘liberal elite’. It does not have to be logical.
Like a lot of rich people one of the few talents or skills he actually has is failing upwards. So maybe his dementia is causing him to claim common cause with men who can’t socialize (except with other men who also can’t socialize).
Oddly enough this might be a good match for him. Where many normal human beings (even ones with bad ideas) will have limits, Trump really does not as long as people are saying nice things about him. He just desperately needs approval and validation from other people. Well… so do men who can’t socialize. So they can easily fall into making a sort of scumbag appreciation society where they feed each other’s deep-seated needs.
I think his loosing control, due to a combination of stress, dementia and campaign exhaustion is more likely, plus possibly some element of him just not caring any more. There is little point in Trump courting the anti-social bro types at the expense of other people. He already has their votes and they are not really a big group.
At the same time this rude humor and insults will put off the moderate religious and moderate Republicans that Trump needs to have a chance to win. They are unlikely to vote for Harris but he needs them to vote in large numbers, them staying home will cost him.
It’s dangerous to attribute entirely rational planning to Trump’s campaign. This could be an intentional move by Trump no matter how bad of an idea it is. It’s entirely possible that Trump has been impressed by the fawning bros around Musk, has been pushed in this direction by Musk or it is some other idle whim by Trump. Trump’s campaign advisors would tell him it’s a bad idea but he ignores their advice on a regular basis.
It would be hilarious if TV ads showing his lewd remarks makes him lose enough votes in the ‘morridor’ (mormon corridor) to lose the crucial electoral votes…
The idiot has an entire campaign staffed by various bros.
His sons and running mate are stellar examples of the type of man who is wholly steeped in unearned privilege, yet feels confident that others are clearly inferior specimens of humanity.
Why else would Mr Mushroom spend 20 rambling minutes telling stories about how impressed he was with Arnold Palmers huge penis?
He literally has claimed that he can sexually assault women with impunity (they let you do it) and even shoot someone on 5th Ave in broad daylight, and there will be zero repercussions.
He is toxic masculinity personified, and he is not dealing well with the fact that the women of America are about to deliver him his well deserved loss to a Black Woman.
He also displays multiple dementia symptoms, and that disease has progressed quite rapidly in the last three months since Biden dropped out. It’s true that they lose their filters and just blurt out the horrible things that rattle around in their decaying brains. Racism and paranoia are commonplace among late stage dementia patients. It’s obvious he can no longer control any of his sphincter’s. Feces just spout out in public.
10) @birgerjohansson: Wouldn’t “Mormon corridor” more readily contract to “Mordor”? 🙂
“poor choice of approaches to remembering my father, but what are you going to do?”
Vote Harris?
Encourage others to vote Harris?
Donate to the Dem campaign?
Take part in the Dem campaign?
I mean, theres literally a list of stuff you could do.