I’ll tell you something. This is a good metaphor all the way around, this beat up old heap, smoking its way off the exit. The Lincoln Project chose this image of Team Trump’s pivot and a frenzied, forced exit on a freeway is exactly what is happening in the political world these days. And I can tell you something else: I’ve witnessed some horrific car crashes in decades of living in Los Angeles, unfortunately. I saw a metallic greene Chrysler Imperial standing on its roof one time. Didn’t have a scratch on it that I could see, but there it was, standing on its roof. I saw a mid-engine Porsche totally engulfed in flames, while fire engines stood by until all the gas burned itself off. All these images and more come to mind to illustrate where Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita are taking the Trump campaign — assuming they last. And that’s not an assumption to be lightly made, according to the Lincoln Project. Of anybody in politics right now, I trust their judgement as political strategists to tell us exactly what is in store and where this circus carvavan is going and who’s leading it.
Have to say, @LaCivitaC and Susie Wiles are masterfully orchestrating Trump's downfall. Letting Trump just be Trump out in the open is the best sabotage anyone could ever plan. https://t.co/ZuhKhc0JiE
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 31, 2024
This is precisely why this is so ludicrous. Of course she can be Indian and Black. She could be Indian and Norweigian, or she should be Indian and Japanese, or Indian and Eskimo, there are any number of combinations possible here. This is Trump’s “gotcha” moment. Too bad it’s not working. This is utterly racist. And that’s the beauty of it. It’s so racist, that they apparently don’t even see how racist it is. We are back in 2008, ladies and gentlemen. And then some.
The majority of Americans who are 16 years and younger are non-white.
Watch Donald Trump’s meltdown with Black journalists and it’s clear why the Republican Party is so desperate to change voting laws.
— Stuart Stevens (@stuartpstevens) July 31, 2024
Now this is totally on point. This is not only Trump, this is his campaign team.
Trump makes comments at the NABJ event today: pic.twitter.com/Cv8NCyuOId
— Mattie Timmer (@MattieTimmer) July 31, 2024
Wiles and LaCivita may be on their way out. This is from a press release that Lincoln Project sent out earlier today.
“Today we saw a terribly panicked Trump run off stage at NABJ. [National Association Of Black Journalists.] His staff had to pull him after they screwed up again by putting him on stage facing his worst nightmare: women of color.
The vaunted Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles campaign of Donald Trump is in freefall.
They’re running out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas and are not far from the campaign’s SSCBD moment. Trump’s campaign sprang more leaks in the last week than it did in the last year.
Their candidate isn’t helping.
Today’s disastrous, flaming dumpster fire event at the National Association of Black Journalists was so bad the Trump team pulled him off the stage.
When he claimed on the stage that Kamala Harris was Indian and became black, the audience was stunned. This event was the most disastrous moment of 2024 since Joe Biden’s debate appearance, and it will rank in the all-time top 10 worst presidential events in decades.
They have no idea how to respond to Kamala Harris. None at all. This is a moment beyond all normal campaign logic. Trump’s answers on the stage showed he’d internalized one element of the campaign’s desperate attempt at recovery but botched it because he’s a racist crank.
He can’t take his eyes off her race and gender. For him, no one wants a black woman in power because that’s what he truly, deeply believes. He has less and less control over his affect, expressions, and speech.
One other note on Trump’s campaign infighting and blamestorming: they’re all livid about J.D. Vance as the single worst VP pick in modern history — and rightly so — but no one has a solution. Trump, I am told, is embarrassed and wants Vance to step away, but the campaign sees the disaster that would portend and is slow-rolling Trump and trying to distract him with shiny objects. Vice Presidents, as I’ve written before, rarely change the game. Vance is changing the game, and not in a good way.
She’s out raising millions of dollars. Trump is hawking a new line of Bitcoin-themed Trump sneakers.
Kamala Harris is uniting her party like I’ve never seen before. Donald Trump’s ostensible allies are starting to alter their campaign messages to, as the say, put a little daylight between themselves and Trump.
The best campaign in the world — and Trump’s campaign is a long way from that — can’T save a candidate in such an obvious, prompt, and deadly collapse.
This is going to be funny as hell to watch. Here’s my prediction: the polls are going to illustrate that Harris is putting a lot of distance between herself and Trump. And that’s when it will get nuts. Trump will get even whackier, even more racist. He will trip all over himself, again and again and again.
And what about the debate? He’s avoiding the debate with Harris but the truth is, he can only do that for so long. He’s being drawn into it, baited into it. It will happen. And it will be one for the ages.
I can’t wait for the debate.. She’ll eat him alive!
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I wouldn’t touch musks racist hateful hate speech program with a ten foot pole. f66ckk musk
Not surprising the Grand Poohbas of the KKK traded in their sheets for business attire and masquerade as politicians and call themselves “conservatives”.
Trump the golfer has played with many top pros who have disgusted me by doing so. Many have openly supported him although none went out and stumped for him. Still, just saying something nice about him after playing a round or two knocked down my respect for every damned one of them including and especially Nicklaus and Palmer. But you know who else Trump bragged about playing with (and who made a bland but nice statement about him later on)? Tiger Woods. Tiger, who’s father was black and who’s mom is from Thailand (the late, great Robin Williams: “Black athletic ability, Buddhist concentration – not even a German Geneticist could have dreamed that up!”) is BLACK as far as Trump has been concerned. His BLACK, top pro golfer friend!
Or how bout this? Former President Obama’s father was from Africa. A BLACK man. Yet his mom was from freaking Kansas and white! Which do believe Trump thinks Obama is – black or white? Of COURSE Trump thinks of Obama as a black man!
Some Asian countries have people with brown skin. Harris has long identified as a black woman. A STRONG black woman. Trump has just ramped up black women to warp factor nine. And I suspect most black MEN will be making the jump to warp speed to after today.
He really stepped in it. It’s like he somehow stumbled in the bathroom straightening up after his morning dump and wound up with his foot in his fake gold toilet, covered in his own shiite because he hadn’t flushed. (HE isn’t the type to touch some nasty toilet handle – that’s what servants are for!)
What I find amazing is the loyalty these idiots have to that orange lump. Don’t they see that Chump has no loyalty to anyone, look at how he has turned on people who were once part of his team, Michael Cohen, Anthony Scaramuchi, John Kelly, the coffee boy he blamed for something or other!
I am enjoying watching him implode, I think Kamala has him scared silly!
Trump touted himself as a white man…he then turned orange. So is he a potato or an orange? Of course each have more self awareness than he does. There are some venues I’ve been in full of black folks who wouldn’t have just been insulted. He would have gotten a good old fashion beating. Deservedly so.
Sweet potatoes or YAMS? YAMS it is.
Where is Paul Manafort when trumpy needs him? Askin’ for a friend…
Great article!
I am white, my wife is Mexican and prieta. I have no idea what my kids growing up experience was like. kids never really tell us about what they experience. We mostly lived in Hispanic neighborhoods. Looking at a photo of my kids now, I see they have my color so they could pass for white. I am sure they overheard a lot of racism in their work that people didn’t notice.
I am sure they can relate to Harris’ experience somewhat. Family days with the Mexican side and then on the white side. There is a lot to discuss about this trump insult to so many people.
“The 2020 United States census recorded 33.8 million people, or 10.2% of the population, as multiracial, which is a 276% increase from 2010.”
este es mis dos centavos.
Ron Filipkowski and Anthony Davis did a post-mortum of trump’s crash-and-burn appearance at NJAB yesterday and it’s a must-see. Ron is usually calm and collected, but this time he got so worked up he need a water break.
These guys have some deep insights into MAGA politics and Ron said something riveted my attention. He remarked about their unusual change from being totally against mail-in voting to absolutely supporting it. He also said posts of guys imploring women not to vote for Harris are appearing everywhere on Truth Social and other far-right social media. His conclusion: MAGA men want to stand over their wives when they fill out the mail-in ballots. Anthony grabbed his head and said something like “Oh gawd,” which was exactly my reaction.
The MAGA crew knows that this election could well be decided by women, and they’re desperate to get them under control. Not gonna work.
YOU GO GIRLS!