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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDow drops 831, Worst hurricane to hit FL gulf coast in history and the A-hole in chief
is holding a campaign rally.
Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)... at Mexico Beach. Why should he care?
dembotoz
(16,806 posts)spanone
(135,841 posts)he'll probably blame it all on the democrats.
malaise
(269,021 posts)Everything has to be an exaggeration. It's why he and his criminal family robbed the state and federal government - being rich wasn't enough. He had to be the richest.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Kiss your retirement goodbye for years with this asshat running the show. This is another Bush.IDIOT scenario playing out. Thank you OBAMA for policies that slowly raised the DOW over almost all your eight years.
SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)in spite of strong recommendations to. They think it'd be bad "optics." For a man with no bottom to hit.
Trump left the White House just before 4 p.m., tweeting about his decision to attend the rally. "Departing the @WhiteHouse for Erie, Pennsylvania. I cannot disappoint the thousands of people that are there - and the thousands that are going. I look forward to seeing everyone this evening," he wrote..."Well, I hear they have thousands of people lined up and so we are in a little bit of a quagmire," he told reporters at the White House. "I don't want to disappoint people. So, we'll probably go because what are you going to do? Tell thousands of people who've been waiting there all night that we're not coming? That's not fair either," he said.
Is there a tweet? There always is a tweet.
"Yesterday Obama campaigned with JayZ & Springsteen while Hurricane Sandy victims across NY & NJ are still decimated by Sandy. Wrong!" Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012
I know some people in ErieHi, Liz! Hi, Eric!and nobody I know in Erie is stupid or heartless, and everybody I know in Erie would understand if the president* told them that, what with the unprecedented hurricane in Florida, he had to stay and do some presidentin', and that he would come there and bask in their undying love some other time, when Florida wasn't set to become a coral reef. They would understand. I know they would. Shameless. Completely shameless
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)How well he'll take care of Florida and how the market declining for FIVE days with the third worst day in history today is ok. And...they'll cheer and wave their "Women for Trump" signs.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the more they repel those who refuse to identify Republican any more. They almost all voted for him in 2016 and can use all the help the Trumpzis can give them to avoid backsliding into the abyss in 2018.
There really is no bottom to his cravenness.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)every opportunity to make the glory days of his campaign crowds live on as his presidency.
At the same time, we know he enjoys cruelty as an exercise of power, longs to be feared, and is very vindictive when he thinks he's been crossed. (Not everyone always as adoring as he requires?)
I agree no bottom. To the point that I'd now be surprised if there wasn't a great deal of malice in not just breaking his promises to his cheering crowds but actively trying to destroy what they want from him. Such as intending to make Obamacare's coverage of preexisting conditions unconstitutional, which would/will hurt them dreadfully.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)that kind of politicians the Kochs install, in this case Kobach, may be opening up a chance for the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, though. No matter the era, I'd be willing to bet the main answer to "what's wrong with Kansas" isn't all those huge weather and other disasters but always its conservatives.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)look to flip two House seats. Trump is now sending Pence to Kansas in desperation for Kris KKKobach--does that sound like something Republicans would normally do??
There are worse places than Kansas......
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Most people back away when the place they live in and love is made fun of, you came out swinging. I accept your statement that Kansas has a lot of great areas, it is just that Manhattan is one that I am most familiar with and I don't know much about the rest of the state.
BigmanPigman
(51,604 posts)He is at his best when he is lying to his cult. Of course he falls back on his strength. Being a functioning president is not what he wants to do and has no interest in it at all.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)It's not like he'd actually be doing anything...
Jspur
(578 posts)it's the worst hurricane to hit FL Gulf. Let's hope it isn't considering they are millions of people who can potential suffer if this hurricane turns out to be that bad. Honestly I feel some people in DU hate Trump so much that they are rooting for a horrible disaster simply in hopes that it will end up destroying him politically without thinking of the millions of innocent lives that could be effected. To me that's a bunch of bs. Just speaking as a North Carolinian who had to deal with a bunch of idiots hyping up Florence simply because they wanted Trump to suffer without thinking about how people like me had the risk of losing everything.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)A horrible disaster is happening, and Donald Trump is more concerned with a campaign rally than being the president. Whether any individual person in the hurricane's path loses everything or gets through relatively unscathed, it's not up to the forecasters or anyone else to do the president's job for him. All we can do is remind citizens that during a disaster, the identity of the person sitting in the Oval Office matters a lot more than any hype.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)And anyone ANYWHERE supporting this vile megalomaniac slug should be shamed back under the slimy rocks they crawled out from underneath.