Trump Proves in Unhinged Post That Shooting Hasn’t Changed Anything
https://newrepublic.com/post/183819/trump-proves-unhinged-post-shooting-changed
Trump Proves in Unhinged Post That Shooting Hasn’t Changed Anything
https://newrepublic.com/post/183819/trump-proves-unhinged-post-shooting-changed
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>Donald Trump and his team are pushing a so-called pivot toward unity in the wake of Saturday’s assassination attempt on the former president, and the media is absolutely eating it up—with positively no actual evidence to suggest that anything has changed.
>“He could unify America,” they wrote. “Imagine he gave a speech featuring something he rarely shows: humility. Imagine him telling the nation that he has been too rough, too loose, too combative with his language—and now realizes words can have consequences, and promises to tone it down and bring new voices into the White House if he wins.”
>It took about 36 hours for Trump to abandon his call to unite a divided America and get back to talking about himself.
>It took about 36 hours for Trump to abandon his call to unite a divided America and get back to talking about himself.
I had posted that it would be under 24 hours, so I will humbly admit my mistake.
>As the Republican National Convention begins, it’s worth remaining skeptical of Trump and his team’s attempts to paint him as a changed man. Trump was desperate to widen his appeal to centrist voters long before this weekend, and he will continue to use Saturday’s violent unfoldings to distract voters from his own equally violent rhetoric.
Of course, it has not changed anything.
Trump is a One Trick Pony.
Dude, I think we should all wait 10 days before panicking. He’s certain to get some bump with sympathy after shooting, but it won’t last.
Maybe I’m just going crazy but im not feeling any of the doomsaying bullshit others are. I thought there would be some big deep swell of forgiveness level sympathy for him but I don’t see any of that shit happening if his official stance is still pro January 6th.
I have a feeling that’s going to be the topic of alot of the election going forward. Americans do hate political violence.
It has changed everything, now Biden is busy going around and apologizing for any potential microaggression that might have contributed to violence. While MAGA and Trump personally who has done nothing but spew hateful rhetoric for 8 years gets a pass.
Biden will gladly absorb this political hit for the damage his opponent has done, and lose every branch of government in the process.
Now is a good time to make sure you are registered democrat. Have food and water supplies. Have first aid training. And have guns, ammo and training. Lay low and don’t call attention to yourselves.
The media are too drawn out and desperate these days. Fucking write anything that pops into their heads for clicks. Trump was never ever going to change and you KNOW it will make him worse, why? Because EVERYTHING makes him worse. Winning, losing, fucking everything shows a worse side of him.
Yet the media gives him every change to change and is completely caught off guard that he hasn’t.. Every day new details of project 2025 come out worse than ever. There are new allegations about trump and his conduct nearly as often and yet, we are now debating if joe Biden’s words are too harsh. And guess what, if trump loses the vote he’s going to try and steal it again, and the media will be completely blindsided by the plot out in the open. It would be a farce if it want true.
We all knew it wouldn’t
Well that didn’t take long.
There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me—you can’t get fooled again.
The media is fawning all over him. Evidently January 6 has been forgotten.
Alright Biden. Start those campaign ads again. Stop taking the high road.. this scumbag doesn’t deserve it. Doesn’t deserve an ounce of sympathy. Nothing..
Well, that didn’t take long.
Independent voters watched what happened on Saturday and were probably very scared by it. They want to see Trump tone down the rhetoric, if he continues to be unhinged, it is going to alienate the independent voters that he desperately needs
That being said, it’s still only July and a lot is going to happen before November
The crazy thing is that Trump had a golden ticket to win the 2024 election, All he has to do is focus on the economy and immigration. If he keeps his mouth mostly shut and focuses on how the country felt good in 2016-2020 he would easily win. Yet based on his VP pick, it seems he is gung ho on the alt right strategy, which is bold to say the least.
So Biden can now get back to calling out Trump for being a shit human being.
Of course it changed something.
He thinks he’s immortal now.
Yeah that didn’t last long. Glad he’s alive. Gloves are off.
I feel like everyone woke up, forgot about the debate, forgot about the big boy presser, the assassination attempt and said, “fucking JD Vance? For real?”
When does he not post something unhinged?
Why would anyone think for a second that trump would have any kind of clarity after that lmao dude is a scumbag for life
Media thought Trump would take a lighter tone, that he might pivot, lol.
“As we move forward in Uniting our Nation after the horrific events on Saturday” — Okay, it starts off good. Trump used the word “Uniting”.
“This dismissal of the Lawless Indictment in Florida should be just the first step, followed quickly by the dismissal of ALL the Witch Hunts” — Oh Oh, starting to go off the rails.
“The January 6th Hoax in Washington, D.C.” — Ahh, yes, January 6, definitely disqualifying for the presidency.
“The Manhattan D.A.’s Zombie Case” — Okay, sounding crazy. Trump, you’re a convicted felon.
“The New York A.G. Scam” — Don’t know what he’s talking about.
“Fake Claims about a woman I never met (a decades old photo in a line with her then husband does not count)” — Trump, Defaming E. Jean Carroll, again.
“And the Georgia ‘Perfect’ Phone Call charges”, — No, Georgia couldn’t “find 11,780 votes”, Trump.
And Trump will not pivot. When will the media learn?
While Republicans blame Democrats and Biden for rhetoric, Biden’s team removed media telling voters who Trump really is. But this is a mistake. Speak the truth and vote Democrat down the ballot.
Hahahahaha yup, a lifelong malignant narcissistic sociopath is gonna change overnight. Right. Ya see psychology professionals, there is a cure! The media wants it to be true so bad they’ll push the narrative and make this a horse race as much as they can, despite it literally being the first thing Trump will attack of he’s elected. But hey, clicks and ads.
Predictable that it’d feed his well-undeserved ego/ God complex.
There was a brief moment of time I’d thought “This is it, this’ll change everything” but – nah.
There was 0% of me that thought the shooting would do anything but embolden him. Then he threw his fist in the air and the crowd cheered. Couldn’t have worked out better for him if it was staged.
Getting almost shot doesn’t cure mental illness
Don’t sleep on silent democrat vote. Everyone knows trumpers are loud and proud and would show off their Trump tramp stamp tattoo proudly while people like us don’t really talk about politics in person but will absolutely show up to the polls in November
People like myself don’t really like to even admit that i am a democrat in public because i dont wanna get shot or hurt by some right wing lunatic whos been brain washed by FoX News/right winger shit/violent rheteoric they been spewing about democrats for the past 8 years
Wasn’t he playing golf the next day instead of visiting with victims of the attack? Lol, fuck this guy.
It’s obviously not just his loyal supporters who don’t see Trump for what he is. Why do even journalists keep reaching for optimism? The man is beyond redemption. He’s been past it for a long, long time.
It did prove that Republicans can’t hit a stationary target at 150 yards. Good to know for the future.
So many women that don’t care that he is a sexual predator, a child molester, serial cheater that wants to take them back to the 1800s. That still supports him. If you are not a white straight male you can prepare to give up what your grandparents fought for you to have. Of course if you are not a rich white male get ready for mandatory military service.
There is is boys. That’s what’s his campaign means about a unifying speech. Unify around what he wants.
The people who actually let this sway them are dumb.
I’m very upset. The American People have again witnessed criminal gun violence in real-time. Hundreds of people were present; three killed, an attempted assassination and constant reporting and replays and there are no national mental health services offered?
Trump played golf and made a national appearance? No remarks for the fallen?! No physical health updates for his wellbeing? How is he doing? Any missing parts? Bruising? Symptoms? Post-Traumatic Stress? What is happening here?! I’m so upset!
Why tf would the shooting change anything?
Anyone who seriously thought a little nick on the ear would change Trump’s behavior is legitimately stupid. Nothing short of absolute brain death will diminish his assholery.
Oh gawd, his call for unity is going to be tied to dropping all his cases.
“If Joe Biden really wants to heal the country after this horrible attack, the justice department must stop its cases against me.”
Corporate media is practically sainting him. There’s a deep dark sickness in this country right now that’s being promoted and enhanced by people with power
His team is doing all the work. This dude almost got his fucking head blown off and out of the luckiest of luck he got nicked. He’s thinking non-stop about what happened and the fact that they got several shots off, I bet he’s paranoid as ever. He looked shook and disheveled doing his little wannabe ufc walk out at the rnc.
That call for unity was short lived.
And democrats are talking about “unity”. We are literally at war with evil. There is no unity. Are we going to win in November or are we going to lose in July?
Oh, and OP? That website is cancer on mobile. New Republic needs to get it together.
The traitor is owed zero sympathy. I didn’t want him to be a martyr, but they’re gonna treat him like that anyway. 1 second or 1 inch and we’d be living in a different world right now.
This is the worst thing trump can do with this unbelievable opportunity he was given. Undecided voters want any reason to ignore anything, and continuing to be a weird, overpoliticized jackoff is just the reason undecided voters are looking for to let something fade out of their minds and become more white noise
We literally had an entire LONG AS HELL four years with him as president, and we’ve already seen how that goes. We’ve also had almost 4 years of Biden. Why do we think campaigning will change any minds? And why do we think Trump getting shot at will miraculously cure his narcissism? Are we really that stupid?
Yeah I guess we are.
It tracks. During the pandemic all he needed to do was shill MAGA masks and tell people to be safe and he probably would have won re-election instead of attacking everyone around him. He was handed a legacy-making crisis and fumbled it.
Here’s round 2. All he needed to do was dial it back for a minute, give a little “we are ALL Americans” speech, tell people to hug their neighbors, and he could have coasted on that sympathy until November. This idiot is physically incapable of shutting up.
Tucker Carlson states that ‘Getting shot in the face changes a man’.
When did YOU get shot in the face, Tucker?
Or are you referring to last night with Trump in Milwaukee in that hotel room?