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brooklynite

(94,624 posts)
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 02:48 PM Aug 2019

During El Paso hospital visit, Trump compared his and O'Rourke's crowd sizes at political rallies

Source: Washington Post

A video that surfaced of President Trump’s visit Wednesday to an El Paso hospital in the wake of a mass shooting shows him talking to medical staff about the crowd sizes that he and former congressman Beto O’Rourke drew at political rallies earlier in the year.

As Trump exchanges pleasantries with doctors and others at the University Medical Center of El Paso, the video shows him pausing to reminisce about dueling rallies that he and the Texas Democrat staged in El Paso in February focused on immigration and border security.

“That was some crowd,” Trump says of his event. “We had twice the number outside. And then you had this crazy Beto. Beto had like 400 people in a parking lot, and they said his crowd was wonderful.”

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Trump expressed frustration to aides on Air Force One that news cameras were not with him in the hospital on Wednesday and that coverage of the trip was being dominated by his foes.



Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/during-el-paso-hospital-visit-trump-compared-his-and-orourkes-crowd-sizes-at-political-rallies-video-shows/2019/08/08/573a3e68-b9eb-11e9-bad6-609f75bfd97f_story.html

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During El Paso hospital visit, Trump compared his and O'Rourke's crowd sizes at political rallies (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2019 OP
Trump talking about size again? durablend Aug 2019 #1
lol Flaleftist Aug 2019 #2
Trump is a real un-American pos. rockfordfile Aug 2019 #3
Well, OF COURSE he did. Paladin Aug 2019 #4
Charlie Sykes said on Wallace's show DeminPennswoods Aug 2019 #5
"The bride at every wedding" Kaiserguy Aug 2019 #6
"the corpse at every funeral" DinahMoeHum Aug 2019 #14
Know Sykes said 3 things, but I didn't DeminPennswoods Aug 2019 #16
I think that originally said about Huey Long. But it's still true about 45. SharonAnn Aug 2019 #15
ugh. I cannot wait until 2021 and this guy is out of our lives. Sapient Donkey Aug 2019 #7
Why does Trump the Tainted Tyrant solara Aug 2019 #8
Are we tired of all the "unifying" yet? n/t TygrBright Aug 2019 #9
Trump Baby is so needy BeyondGeography Aug 2019 #10
. . . and the corpse at every funeral. . . Mazeltov Cocktail Aug 2019 #11
The trip was all about building Trumps EGO. He is a selfish, petty man. riversedge Aug 2019 #12
I agree: it's a pity news cameras weren't recording every horrible word... Hekate Aug 2019 #13

Paladin

(28,266 posts)
4. Well, OF COURSE he did.
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 03:29 PM
Aug 2019

Time and again, trump has demonstrated that crowd sizes and ratings are all that matter to him. No surprise, here.

DeminPennswoods

(15,286 posts)
5. Charlie Sykes said on Wallace's show
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 04:19 PM
Aug 2019

Trump has to be the bride at every wedding, the baby at every christening. That sums it up quite nicely.

SharonAnn

(13,777 posts)
15. I think that originally said about Huey Long. But it's still true about 45.
Fri Aug 9, 2019, 04:12 PM
Aug 2019

Also, he wants to be the corpse at every funeral. Fine by me.

solara

(3,836 posts)
8. Why does Trump the Tainted Tyrant
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 04:49 PM
Aug 2019

constantly seek to compare the size of his penis (i.e. the size of his crowd, his ratings etc) with any man who speaks truth to power or disagrees with him, or refuses to take his loyalty oath?.. If he was actually able to compare his penis size with anyone elses, he would most certainly be found to be horrifyingly lacking.

Gahh..the idea of such a "contest" is as much of an obscenity as is the Tainted Tyrant himself.

Mazeltov Cocktail

(569 posts)
11. . . . and the corpse at every funeral. . .
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 06:10 PM
Aug 2019

Even at his own father's funeral he discussed the size of Trump Tower (lied, of course). . .it must be exhausting to work that hard to be the center of attention.

Hekate

(90,727 posts)
13. I agree: it's a pity news cameras weren't recording every horrible word...
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 08:19 PM
Aug 2019

...so everyone can see/hear for themselves what his real obsessions are. Too bad reporters couldn't interview hospital admins for themselves about the patients who really did not want to be in a photo-op for this pitiful excuse for a president.

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