I don’t know if Vivek Ramaswamy did his end game any good here. His presumed end game was acquiring a sinecure with Newsmax, OAN, or RSBN — Fox being in a league that he can never bat in. You have to be Kayleigh McEnany material to rise to those illustrious heights. And that made great sense to many people, that that was the purpose of Ramaswamy’s presidential bid, beyond merely feeding a narcissistic ego.
But maybe that’s not the case. Because the fact of the matter is that Vivek managed to forevermore alienate Donald Trump, and where Trump goes, there goeth MAGA. What really is blowing peoples’ minds, besides the blatant opportunism of Vivek’s play, is the fact that he didn’t seem to think it would backfire. Does he have any clue what is really going on here, or who he’s dealing with?
Who knew that the high water mark of Vivek’s political career would occur one second before he hit the post button for this photo? https://t.co/KfN9C3N67t
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 14, 2024
You see the obvious, right? Or, let’s put it this way, you see what Donald Trump is going to see, which is that Vivek is making two statements with these shirts: 1. Trump is going to lose, ergo 2. I’m the only one who will pardon him, so if you want to save Trump, vote for me.
Now statement two is not necessary so. Nikki Haley would pardon Trump, Ron DeSantis even said that he would. Hell, if it comes down to it, Joe Biden might. The pros and cons of that are something we can discuss another time. In any event, Team Trump didn’t waste time getting back to Vivek.
I think Viv will try to resurrect the bromance as soon as the Iowa circus ends.
— 🇺🇸Carrie Sweet🇺🇦 (@Anybodyhomehere) January 14, 2024
Now Trump and Vivek were not on the greatest of terms to begin with, anyhow. Trump has nicknamed him “Fake Vivek.” And that was before this travesty hit. The shirt that you see above is going for $21.94, in an assortment of colors, hot pink being the most garish. Here’s what Trump thinks. ABC News:
With just two days left until the Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump has started to criticize Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy as the two have appeared to maintain a friendly relationship on the campaign trail up until this point.
“Vivek started his campaign as a great supporter, “the best President in generations,” etc. Unfortunately, now all he does is disguise his support in the form of deceitful campaign tricks,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social, on Saturday.
The criticism marks the first time Trump and his team have made direct, public attacks against Ramaswamy.
It stemmed from shirts that Ramaswamy’s campaign is handing out that say ‘Save Trump, Vote Vivek’ on them. Ramaswamy posted a photo with a group of young men wearing them after his event in Rock Rapids, Iowa, on Saturday, which caught the former president’s attention.
“Very sly, but a vote for Vivek is a vote for the “other side” — don’t get duped by this. Vote for “TRUMP,” don’t waste your vote! Vivek is not MAGA,” Trump added.
Now this is worth looking at. This is Ramaswamy’s idea of the perfect Republican candidate. Are you sitting down?
“I think what you actually need is a hybrid of the legal knowledge of a Ted Cruz with the business capabilities to execute of a Donald Trump,” he told a voter in Okoboji, Iowa, on Saturday. He has been describing himself as “the future of America First.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Imagine a being that is a cross between the oleaginous Cruz and the abjectly stupid Trump. OMG. The mind reels. It positively reels.
Ramaswamy has also been comparing Trump to a “wounded” soldier in a war, saying “If you want to save Trump,” Iowans should vote for him instead. He claims that Trump’s political opponents will not let the former president near the White House in order to prop up Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, citing Trump’s removal from primary ballots in Colorado and Maine.
Vivek, Vivek, can we tell you something, please? You don’t last a nanosecond in Trump world if you criticize Trump. Period. You are now out of Trump world and if you thought that you might be in line for a VP coronation, we hope that you have disabused yourself of that notion. You are now officially toast. Your best hope now, if you want any future in politics, is to recant, praise Trump to the skies, withdraw from the race yourself, and pledge to devout yourself to Trump being the 47th president of the United States. That will at least get you a gig on Newsmax or one of them. You’re welcome.
I think, in future ‘MAGA’ should be replaced with ‘MTGA’ and a new hat to be brought out “Make Trump Great Again”
I think you can drop the “Again” since DON THE CON wasn’t ever great in the first place. He’s always been a failure, loser & 2-bit con.
He’s ‘great’ in his own mind (‘grate’ in anyone else who is sensible)
I agree with one thing…. DON THE CON needs to be kept SAFE BEHIND BARS FOR THE REST OF HIS MISERABLE LIFE.
You may already be a weiner! MAD magazine
Sorry Scott, it was National Lampoon.
What? Me worry? It’s been a long time since I’ve read either. thanks.
Anyone who thinks haley has a rat’s ass of a chance at the w.h. has not been paying attention to the growing avalanche of misogyny that is the present-day republican party. This sentiment has been part and parcel of con ‘pubes since the 80’s but it truly has grown to immense proportions over the decades with the exponential growth occurring the years just before and since former guy occupied the oval. Take a real good look at what is in the party: magats, idiots saying sh*t like women in the U.S. will wish they were treated as well as those in The Handmaid’s Tale, etc. That garbage was likely a big part of the ‘pubes since ronnie ramjet but they became very, very vocal about it over the past several years.
Hilary did not win in 2016 because idiot democrats “didn’t like trump but just didn’t trust Hilary” not because of the republican voters. The republican voters were NEVER going to vote for her because she is female and their con xtian little brains would have exploded before putting a women in charge of a country (and it is religion with them). In 2024 haley has the gender problem and therefore not a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the nomination. Honestly, neither her or death sentence has a chance but she has less of one.
I find the idea of anyone considering Rafael Cruz as a standard bearer of “legal Knowledge” to be comical.
Oh, wow, now they’re saying the face-eating leopards part out loud, too: calling each other CON MAN is really rich, coming from any of them. I spilled my coffee and it’s not even 0900 here yet, first cup on Sunday mornin’.
Rest assured, the ONLY way Biden would consider giving Trump a pardon is if Trump fully and publicly admits he is guilty of his crimes. I don’t see that ever happening.
Meh……no one cares about either RW AH! Vote Blue & Progressive, only way to get a decent & JUST country!
Sir Mara Lardo has a kind-of “spidey sense” when it comes to partnering with someone. I don’t think he’ll ever pick for VP someone louder than he. Remember when Pence was taking credit for some blase’ something and the rw “news” people came calling? He blew a gasket. One of the reasons he picked Pence was because of his white milk personality, and the evangelical vote. That means Vivek, Lake, Stefanik, etc. out. I’ll bet he wants his favorite lil’ Speaker. That’s one reason Marge and the dum caucus won’t touch him. They wouldn’t dare piss off the anointed one.