Seeing is believing. Here’s a small clip of Donald Trump Jr., before he got to blaming the “Chinese Communist Party virus,” and he looks pretty hammered.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2020
Plus, his delivery is frantic, compared to how he spoke at the RNC in 2016. There, he was calm, his eyes were open, his speech normally paced. Here, he looks and sounds wasted. Although I have to say, if I had to get up and try to sell Donald Trump to America, I would need chemical assistance, too. Lots of it. The main difference between Junior and myself, is that if I had to try to persuade people that Trump was the man they should vote for, I would start laughing hysterically, and not be able to stop, until they tackled me and hauled me off stage. At least Junior is able to keep a straight face….well, relatively speaking.
Jesus he is legit ramped out of his god damn mind
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 25, 2020
he's fine Rick, what are you talking about pic.twitter.com/vpSr3iqyIb
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) August 25, 2020
RNC Drinking Game: Donald Trump Jr. is so coked out of his mind, whenever he manages to get his eyes to blink, you drink.
— Chris Buck (@StopherBuck) August 25, 2020
Is @DonaldJTrumpJr high?
He looks high.
His eyes are sooooo red and glazed over.#RepublicanConvention #TrumpChaos #IsDJTJrHigh
— (((Alan Rosenblatt, PhD))) #BidenHarris2020 (@DrDigiPol) August 25, 2020
Trump Jr.'s eyes are bizarre and he's been acting erratically. Somethin ain't right. https://t.co/b3FRX2adF0
— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) August 25, 2020
What is under @DonaldJTrumpJr eyes? He looks like he’s got that grease on that is put on boxers between rounds… pic.twitter.com/fGgeVmHxaJ
— Jon Sopel (@BBCJonSopel) August 25, 2020
And Guilfoyle was amped out of her gourd as well.
This will haunt my dreams. pic.twitter.com/615fgtP6tj
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 25, 2020
Why is Kimberly Guilfoyle yelling? Isn’t it an empty room? #RNCConvention
— Kris Pangilinan (@KrisReports) August 25, 2020
Kimberly Guilfoyle is hollering at me.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 25, 2020
And this is what she was hollering, courtesy of NPR.
“[Joe] Biden, [Kamala] Harris and their socialist comrades will fundamentally change this nation. They want open borders, closed schools, dangerous amnesty and will selfishly send your jobs back to China, while they get richer,” Guilfoyle said. “They will defund, dismantle and destroy America’s law enforcement. When you are in trouble and need 911, don’t count on theDemocrats.”
Maybe Junior and Kimberly can go check into Betty Ford’s when all this is over. What a performance. I guess this is what you do when you know you’re doomed, but you figure you’ve got to at least make an effort and do something on stage. Hey, maybe they could do a remake of Scarface, ya think?
I can’t wait to see Rick Wilson’s and Charlie Pierce’s columns on this travesty.
Uh, lol. 3 more days to go. Yes, they were loud, it was just desperation
I don’t know who is supposed to be impressed with this strident, shrill messaging. This is way downhill from what was going on in 2016. At least in 2016, Junior was sober at the podium. He was talking about being a husband and a father and “son of a ‘great’ man.” Now he’s just ranting. And Guilfoyle is on the moon. Words fail me.
Loud screaming when you have zilch. Christ, pathetic. Definitely nothing to worry about here. It will be more of the same.
I just found Rick Wilson’s tweet and so changed the headline. Go back and re-read this. Wilson’s take on it makes all the difference. Oh, Jesus, what a fiasco!!
It’s like the old lawyer axiom, Cmae: when you’ve got nothing, pound the table.
One of the tweets I saw last night read “Totally baked”.
Kimberly screaming at the top of her lungs, along Junior’s manic performance, suggests a very special delivery was made to the WH before their mutual speeches.
The royal apothecary came up with a magic powder for the prince and princess, yes. And a brave cavalier delivered it on horseback.
I do believe Baby Donnie has been sniffing the rocket fuel (and it looks like he’s wearing ear plugs in one of the photos – must have been when Kimberley was throwing a screaming fit)
Think how out of it they both are, that they don’t realize this is how they’re coming across on camera. Like nobody is going to notice?
The earbud one is from a different speech – notice the background isn’t all flags.
Contrary to Bowie in “Station To Station”, for Junior, it IS the side effects of the cocaine because it sure as hell ain’t love.
As I say ad nauseum, if you wrote this as a script, nobody would believe it.
This strikes me as having a combination of the bureaucratic inertia of John Le Carre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy, the utter ridiculousness of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 with a dash of the pathetic characters of Kurt Vonnegut’s Jailbird.
I’m going to have to read Tinker Tailor or at least see the movie. I know the other two pieces well. If anybody was to write this, it would be Vonnegut, hands down.
It’s a good novel.
I highly recommend the most recent film version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which cuts out a lot of the novel’s fat while retaining the plot and narrative force. Gary Oldman is peerless as George Smiley and he’s backed up by a genuine all-star cast. You can find it on Amazon Prime or Netflix.
I feel several Lincoln Project ads and an SNL super-parody coming on….
This is pure batshit. I expected a hate fest, that was a no brainer. But for them to show up stoned and for her to rant like that? Words fail me.
Well, he can’t perform these duties while sober.