‘Every Person In WI Heard’ Trump’s ‘Latest A$$holery About Milwaukee’

It didn’t take long for Trump’s latest garrulous guffaw of a gigantic gaffe to blow up in his face. The DNC immediately got busy placing billboards such as the one you see above. One month from tomorrow the Republican convention convenes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to crown Donald Trump the 2024 nominee — and convention goers will see these signs all over Milwaukee, starting today. As they get off of the freeways, as they deplane and get into the nearest Lyft, this is what will greet their eyes going to the Baird Center. Great move, Donald. Great move.

Charlie Sykes’ connections to Wisconsin and Milwaukee in particular go back a very long way. It perfectly stands to reason that he had some reaction to this. And Reince Priebus, who is heading up the convention and who has known Trump since all this madness started back in 2015, is having a reaction too. He’s probably wetting his pants. Still. It will never change, Reince. In for a penny, in for a pound. Until the GOP cuts Trump loose, this will be your waking nightmare.

And it doesn’t get better. This is one of Trump’s stupidest gaffes yet. From Charlie Sykes’ Substack page.

But then hilarity ensued as Republicans scrambled to get their stories straight. Some Wisconsin Republicans, who were in the room, claimed Trump was talking about “election integrity,” or simply about the city’s Democratic-lean. Others said he was talking about crime. Still others simply beclowned themselves.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel chronicled the omnishambles:

[Representative Glenn] Grothman said Trump “was concerned about the election in Milwaukee” and said he thought Trump “felt we need to do better in urban centers around the country.” He suggested Trump had concerns that Republicans “didn’t do very well in Milwaukee.”

An aide to [Rep. Scott] Fitzgerald also told the Journal Sentinel that Trump’s comments “were about election integrity.”…

U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, a freshman Republican who represents Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District in western Wisconsin, blasted Punchbowl’s reporting, however, saying in a post on the social media platform X that the former president was “specifically referring to the CRIME RATE in Milwaukee.”

And then there was Rep. Bryan Steil, who was caught in a mangle of self-contradiction.

[Steil] who represents the state’s 1st Congressional District, said: “I was in the room. President Trump did not say this. There is no better place than Wisconsin in July.”

Steil later said Trump was “was talking about specific issues in” Milwaukee in the context of “a broad conversation about the challenges we face as a country, in particular the challenges that we’ve seen in Milwaukee.”

Backfire: Even though it will now become a MAGA talking point that the city is “horrible,” Trump’s latest assholery may actually draw more attention to the fact that Milwaukee is actually a pretty great town.

Horrible is as horrible jokes. This is going to continue to haunt Trump, bigly. And it makes perfect sense that the GOP is still covering for him. If he nuked the world into a glowing pile of radioactive slag, the few remaining Republicans would be huddled in a bomb shelter somewhere and preparing a press release that Trump merely was conducting a scientific experiment to see if the cockroaches would in fact inherit the earth. They will whitewash anything he does. This we have seen, this we will continue to see.

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