Sweet home Alabama got cold feet about hosting Donald Trump’s latest Revenge Rally at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park on July 4 and they invoked a little known rule about the difference between a “patriotic event” and a “partisan event” to explain their cancellation of The Former Guy. A patriotic event invites people of all political stripes to speak and a partisan event is all one sided. Here’s what got the people in charge of the park to reconsider Trump’s appearance. The Hill:
USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park commission chairman Bill Tunnell told the NBC News affiliate that the Republican party contacted them worried about the patriotic event turning into a “partisan political event” instead.
“After the request was made, then there was contact with the Republican Party, they contacted us and then it became apparent that it was going to be a partisan political event, rather than just a patriotic event planned for that evening,” Tunnell told WMTV.
The Republican party was concerned about a Trump revenge rally turning into a partisan event? Huh? And “they contacted them worried?” We’ll take a five minute break now while you all try to get off the floor and return your jaws to their proper position on your face.
…….Okay, we’re back. So they contacted the GOP, and then the GOP contacted them, oh wait, maybe it was the other way around. In any event, the clear message you get here is that the GOP is terribly worried that Trump might do a partisan political event, like that would be something new. Maybe they were worried he would incite a riot or something. Right-o.
Then the Alabama Attorney General, Steve Marshall, also a concerned Republican, sent a letter saying that the park is “available for all political parties and candidates on an equal basis,” adding that he didn’t have enough time to draft a formal opinion on this.
Tunnell also said that former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum using the park for his campaign in 2012 was the reason why the commission has abstained from partisan political events.
“Rick Santorum was the … straw that broke the camel’s back. And that’s when the commission went to the no partisan politics open to the public,” he said.
If you’ve been following politics for longer than five minutes, this has all the earmarks of a facile decision made for reasons other than the ones stated. And what might those reasons be? How about Trump’s rally in Ohio was less than a humdinger? People were walking out of it midway and all it was, in fact, was Trump trash talking the Biden administration.
If you recall 2016 in Mobile, Alabama, the city was credited at that time with being a springboard for Trump’s campaign. Jeff Sessions was the first senator to publicly endorse Trump. It is very possible that the powers that be in Mobile just don’t want to make the same mistake twice.
Also, AL.com is reporting that the commissioners “did not sign off on a plan for Trump to hold a rally at the Mobile site.” This is some major backpedaling.
It may come in the wake of Trump’s Ohio rally being less than stellar. Droves of MAGAs were trailing out, going home early, because apparently the old Trump magic is gone. They came to see him mainline hate and rage and gin up the crowd into a frenzy. Instead, they got a tired laundry list recitation of his grievances. One MAGA said it wasn’t “radical” enough for him.
Or maybe it’s as simple as this: maybe Trump still owes the park money from 2016 and they don’t want to run up any more bad debts?
Trump hasn’t come out with any of his poison pen statements about cancel culture and RINOs, so it’s still the calm before the storm. But he’s certain to be hopping mad. July 4th is the biggest holiday of the summer, plus the biggest patriotic holiday of the entire year. And unless Trump can come up with another venue — and fast — he’s going to be home alone.
Well, he who shall not be named needs to be alone…all alone in his own universe, with no one else in it! Or is that his own little cell in a super-max prison with no contact with anyone at any time? Either one works for me…
A nice suite with locked outside doors.
Any time Donald Trump is told no, and that he’s no longer important enough for people to let him break the rules or listen to his opinions, I find that satisfying for a variety of reasons, lol.
I mean…I’ll watch every minute of you on the stand in a court of law, Donald…but other than that I don’t care.
Poor poor Don, not a smart cell in his brain as the light seems to be dimming very rapidly now , slurs are there strange gibberish and physically, his towering persona has drooped to a hunch back person emptying waste baskets in the front office of a local loan shark … even his hair seems to be in great pain and going ballistic …
……I guess the Alabama Republicans already have made a previous commitment to join the other Republicans in their annual 4th of July pilgrimage to Moscow.
Where else would a Republican spend July 4th???
No sh*t right? So possible it is actually not particularly funny. Oy vey.
To fail this badly in Alabama, a state so backwards and primitive as to make TN look like a place of the future, is a hell of a message.
That crossed my mind as well. They seriously don’t want him in Alabama on the 4th? Man, considering how they launched him in 2016, is this a turnaround.
Could be some local politicians serving up some long overdue payback for costing them with his antics. Do recall that the Evil Keebler Elf Jeff Sessions lost what would have been his lifelong Senate seat and said Senate seat winding up in the hands of a Dem for a few years. Then again, maybe they don’t want to be associated even remotely with the Trump Org’s upcoming indictments.
To hell with tRump and to hell with the Bama Gov Of Putin. They both need to be torpedoed.
When I read this:
“One MAGA said it wasn’t “radical” enough for him.”
I’m wondering if Trump has been eclipsed by Q which is certainly more radical.
Even Q is becoming yesterday’s news. The fact is that the show is over and there are no replacements, just reruns.
We keep forgetting there are huge differences between to average IQs of states and the average IQs of cities within those states. This is not the state of Alabama speaking, it is the city of Mobile. A big part of the explanation may well be right there.
Loved the Mobile USS Alabama museum. Visited for two days almost two decades ago. Having a political rally would sully the memory of those who served. It belongs to all the people. I find much about the south alien to me but ships I get. 🙂