Trump’s Ugly New Post-Shooting Rant Instantly Wrecks His “Unity” Pivot

https://newrepublic.com/article/183860/trumps-post-shooting-rant-wrecks-unity-pivot

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  1. >Trump is positioning himself as a “Uniting” figure (when he capitalizes words, you know he’s branding himself) while also reiterating that every single legal proceeding he faces is entirely illegitimate.

  4. Who could have guessed? Oh, wait, anyone with a functioning brain saw it coming.

  5. Trump hasn’t reached out to the widow and denied Biden’s call. Same piece of shit, different day.

  6. There was never a unity pivot, they’re all psychos. Not a single thing changed except now Trump has a piece of paper on his ear.

  7. Trump looked like a beat dog at the convention last night. Fortunately, it seemed like he did get his shoes back.

  8. Wouldn’t expect someone with narcissistic personality disorder to understand the meaning of “unity”

  10. I really don’t think it’s fair to say that Trumb was ‘shot.’ The guy behind him got shot. Trumb got his ear clipped.

  11. My eye always twitches with his his random capitalizations….what a genius.

  12. Trump is Lucy with the football and the press is Charlie Brown. Every single time the rest of us know ***exactly*** what is going to happen, but the press is so ***certain*** that it will be ***completely different*** this time. But it never is.

    Can also apply to an abused spouse who keeps going back thinking *he’ll change this time.*

    No he won’t.

  13. Trump says it was an inside job, no surprise. I still subscribe to the idea that his campaign picked the worst possible shot and best possible fall guy they could find.. and Trump wasn’t in on it.

  14. I honestly thought he was just gonna straight up demand that Biden be killed tbh

  15. And chief toadie of the “alternate elector” scheme, Ron Johnson…

    “Asked later about the comment by a PBS reporter, Johnson blamed the teleprompter.”

    Very Trumpian, so he clearly believes he has a future with *45*?

  16. Fable: Why’d you sting me Mr. Scorpion? Because it’s my nature.
    Trump has that same energy.

  17. He can’t help himself. The awkward fistpump said it all. Is he capable of reflection and change at this point?

  18. Leopards don’t change their spots, demons don’t become angels.

  19. It’s why no one had sympathy for him. Trump is a human shit stain and a threat to our republic.

  20. The closest we have gotten to national unity in modern times was when they booed Mitch McConnell yesterday at the GOP convention. We will all be glad to see him go.

  21. Which is exactly why the Biden campaign should have never paused their ads against him. Any break in the stratosphere will be instantly filled with utter bullshit by Trump and the GOP. It’s best to flood that with as much messaging as possible to November.

  22. His “uniting” message was always going to be to unite his people against everybody else.

  24. OMG. Did you read it…?

    He *ACTUALLY* thinks *unity* means complete and total capitulation to him.

  25. This is not surprising. We all know what kind of monster he is.
    He will use this moment as a rallying cry.

    🤏

  27. His call for “unity” meant “everyone should stop talking about all the awful stuff I did.”

  28. “END all Weaponization of our Justice System”?

    Project 2025 specifically states that the president should control the DoJ so he can prosecute his enemies.

    This is where the GOP is full of shit. The “hyper rhetoric” starts with them.

  29. I know this sub has been shitting on Biden lately and you want a new candidate; if he is the candidate please vote for him in November to prevent Trump from getting the White House. Please vote for not just the President but also the admin which has done incredible work in the last 3 1/2 years. Vote for the potential of 2 supreme court justices retiring; if Trump gets the white house Thomas and Alito are retiring and he is going to appoint 2 more extreme right wing judges for life.

  30. He’s using it to try and “unite” us in to getting his court cases dismissed?

    Not reducing the violent rhetoric.

    Not meeting with other political leaders to show a peaceful unified front.

    Still no condolences for the spectator killed and the others shot.

    It’s “I got shot, now do all the things I wanted you to do before.”

    Fuck this dude.

  31. There’s going to be a steady stream of gaslighting from MAGA over the next four months.

  32. Whether Trump wins or losses doesn’t matter. He’s still going to wreak havoc on America.

  34. Dude is such a festering example of narcissistic personality disorder that everything he says is completely predictable. The fact he wasn’t even fazed by a bullet grazing his fat head says a lot. He probably thinks the world is united in horror at what happened. They aren’t.

  35. There wasn’t ever going to be a “unity” pivot.  The media needs to stop taking the bait. Trump is Trump – an injury to his ear isnt going to change him: 

    He’s not going to stop dividing.
    He will keep lying about everything. Corruption will still follow him.
    He doesn’t give two fucks about governing. He is surrounded by shit bags who want to loot taxpayer money.

  36. I want to understand how anyone with a functioning brain can overlook his baffling idiotic obsession with lying and quest for power. it’s so obvious that his motives are only for his own personal gain and using every possible means to accomplish it

  38. The man is incapable of a pivot or caring about anything other than himself 

     He went golfing while Biden called the family of his supporter who got killed. The family wouldn’t take Bidens call but Trump hasn’t bothered to call them. He constantly talks about having sex with his daughter in public 

     A 78 year old racist, rapist, fraudster, insurrectionist and felon will never change 

  39. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – Trump is going to come out of this looking like a neutered stray cat with a clipped ear that’s been released back into the wild. I just find that pretty amusing.

  40. To Trump, unity means everyone should do what he says.

  41. “Can we all get together as a group and stop saying I’m dangerous? Can we get some unity?”

    *Meanwhile, still a legitimate threat to the entire planet.*

  42. The country will never be unified as long as trump is the most dominant figure in politics. Never. Its just not possible. If he truly cared about america, if he truly wanted to unify the country, he would withdraw from the election.

    you cant make a rapist the president and expect the people who dont approve of rape to unify around him

    You cant make a racist the president and expect people who dont approve of racism to unify around him

    you cant make a narcissistic bully the president and expect people who don’t approve of narcissistc bullying to unify around him

    You cant say you want the guy to be President because he pisses off liberals, then turn around and whine about unity and liberals being pissed at you

    and no, you cannot say “these are just radical left media narratives” because they are not, they are just an observation of donald trump’s decades of public behavior.

  43. Stop weaponizing the justice system?

    This from the guy that farts out bullshit defamation lawsuits like a dog on a steady diet of taco bell.

  44. During January 6th, many republican officials who were trapped in the capitol building had similar come to Jesus moments when they realized they were actually in danger. They were pro unity for about 48 hours, before they had to start the grift again. I knew none of this would last.

  45. He’s such a unifier he couldn’t even be bothered to check on the family of one of his followers that got the bullet instead. They are all just pawns for him.

  46. “Let’s unite and dismiss all the corruption that I have been apart of.” -DJT

  47. I had a brief moment where I had hoped being shot at would have traumatized him enough to reconsider, but then I remembered he’s a narcissistic sociopath. Trauma is his existence and he revels in it.

  48. It’s hilarious that some people thought the shooting would mellow him. Like they haven’t paid any attention to who Trump is in the past 9 years.

    It’s just going to make him worse.

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