Dum de dum dum dum. Cue the Dragnet music.
You knew Saturday night that today would be a day of reckoning in Trumpworld after the feeble flop that was the Tulsa MAGA rally. It was supposed to be opening night for a great Trump road show, packed to the rafters, forget about COVID-19. Even if it isn’t a hoax, which the rally goers were told it was, they signed a waiver anyhow, just in case they got sick. That waiver is in all probability not enforceable, but don’t tell that to Donald Trump, because he’s got a case of the sadz coupled with rage over several burning pans on the fire, and it’s just a question of which one he’ll be able to put out first, if at all.
Just to name a few problems, John Bolton’s book is set to drop Tuesday and that’s a fer shure. Then Trump is going after his own niece, Mary Trump, legally, because she signed a non disclosure agreement and so he believes she can’t distribute her book. Then who knows where that kerfuffle with Barr Barr and Geoffrey Berman is going? With Rudy’s records being subpoenaed, things are not getting any rosier at SDNY and Barr was supposed to fix that. What else is a killer for, if not damage control? And so the very last thing poor Donald needed was for his “I’m ready for my close up Mr. DeMille” moment to be screwed up and Brad Parscale did that — or if he didn’t, he’s the one who’s getting blamed, and you knew that was coming. The Guardian:
In a statement, Parscale blamed the low attendance on “a week’s worth of the fake news media warning people away from the rally because of Covid and protesters”, which he said “coupled with recent images of American cities on fire, had a real impact on people bringing their families and children to the rally”. […]
“For the media to now celebrate the fear that they helped create is disgusting, but typical,” he said. “And it makes us wonder why we bother credentialing media for events when they don’t do their full jobs as professionals.”
Same old same old, Trump suffers from bad press, in two senses of the word. He made up the second sense. Here’s what Rick Wilson chimed in.
“Brad broke the first rule of American politics: under promise and over deliver,” he told the Guardian. “Brad’s survival now depends on the good offices of his patrons inside the Trump camp, and [Ivanka and Kushner] are already signaling their displeasure to the media.
“The only X factor is whether anyone else in Trump’s crew of skells [and] grifters … has offered to keep the scam running.”
Parscale has taken a lot of heat for his inflated attendance figures, 100K, 200K and then it went to 800K and Trump proclaimed it “a million.” This was credited to teenagers using TikTok and KPop. But Parscale says no. Politico:
“Leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, thinking they somehow impacted rally attendance, don’t know what they’re talking about or how our rallies work,” Parscale said in a statement.
Trump’s campaign manager said the usual online RSVP process for rallies involves weeding out “bogus numbers, as we did with tens of thousands at the Tulsa rally, in calculating our possible attendee pool. These phony ticket requests never factor into our thinking.”
Sounds like a lot of hot air and back pedaling and this is undoubtedly what we will see more of as the campaign season advances. But one thing is certain: Tulsa was a turning point. It is either going to mark the time of reorganization for the Trump campaign and that time already came a couple of weeks ago when yet another bad Monday poll came out and Trump was making noises about taking the broom to both Parscale and Kushner — which would leave him with nobody in charge, essentially. The likes of David Bossie, Corey Lewandowski and Jason Miller have made it clear that they are just consultants, they’re not running the show. Even Karl Rove chimed in, exactly one month ago today, about joining Team Trump, in an “informal role.”
So can Team Trump regroup, or is Tulsa their Waterloo?
Like I told Murf earlier, Waterloo. Campaigns are like cruise ships, so trying to steer them like a speedboat always ends in disaster. Five months left, all Republican campaign pros working against Trump, nothing but lackies and grifters in the inner circle and the head man refusing to learn a goddamn thing…he’s done.
Preach it, Bareshark, preach it. This is gospel to me. I can listen to this all night.
Boy if the hits keep coming like this and before we know it wow it’s Nov.
Knowing how desperate Trump is right now, I’m sure he’s leaning heavily on the reelection team — and they have no answers. The picture of Trump walking away from Marine One, disheveled and depressed told me everything I need to know. Trump’s “act” is old and nobody finds it amusing any more.
We should be so lucky – it’s going to feel like a decade from now to November, and then there’s November to Jan 20….
Nobody has thought of the period from November to January 20. There is no way Trump is going to channel George H.W. Bush and be dignified. And he sure as hell isn’t going to call up Jimmy Carter and say what do I do? It’s hard to speculate what will happen. We’re just going to have to get there. I can’t even see him giving a concession speech.
Hoarse Whisperer’s prediction is he’ll do…nothing. He’ll slink down to Mar-A-Lago and just stay there in a sulk for that entire time. It’ll be kind of like what happened after this joke of a rally, but longer.
I sure hope he slinks away. I am afraid that is when all hell will break loose.
You gotta figure, Mary, that he’s not going to stick around at the site of his humiliation. We’ve also seen how he lacks follow through once he gets past the intimidation stage. Put it together and I see him making a few more calls for violence that gets blocked by Twitter and likely Facebook, followed by him retreating to his safe space in Florida. That will likely be the extent of it, if that.
Bareshark, there will be no “predidenting” from November to January. tRump already doesn’t want to “president” any more!
he will be working on his next grift. Something with a tv network or something. what he really wanted to do in the first place.
I’m placing my bet on if he loses, he’l just abandon the job, head down to Mar-a-Lago and sulk “If they don’t want me I’m not going to work anymore.” I know a lot of people think he’ll do something drastic but I don’t think his heart is in it. I think he’ll just leave the ship rudderless for two and a half months.
pj evans, I worry most about November to January!
I keep this image from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy close as a template for his response to a November defeat. Control receives news of the Hungarian operation going pear-shaped via comms. He goes catatonic, does nothing despite his people wanting to know what they’re going to do. A month later, he’s gone. A few months after that, dead.
When you’re that shattered to the core, you’re not getting back up.
I think it was in one of the other stories on Politizoom tonight that said the Fire Dept in Tulsa said the real crowd size was 6200 in a 19,000 arena. Not even 1/3. Regardless the bloviating, this ain’t good for Trump and his fascist/treasonous cult.
I hope Brad points out to Trump that it wasn’t him that suggested injecting Lysol or sticking a flash light down your throat to kill the Trump Plague. Oh, the best part from last night for me was some old Trump Trash from Texas. He didn’t like Trumps tariffs and he was mad as hell that the cops shot him with tear gas or something. Poor baby.
I think that he was able to even draw 6200 is a sad commentary on where our country is today.
In a nation of over 300 million? Not THAT sad.
The tickets themselves might have been free, but a big part of the grift with Trump is all those goobers buying up MAGA gear and trinkets. What’s rattling around in my head right now is that whole second stage Trump was supposed to do – which got cancelled entirely! That’s a lot of time for Trump to be up there spewing his stuff and while he craves the attention an extra hour on is feet couldn’t have been appealing. Showing him how much the average rally attendee spends on Trump’s shit, which goes directly into his bank account (the junk is marked up big time over actual costs) was the carrot that got Trump to agree. He’s already suspicious off Parsquale and thinking the dude is skimming from the campaign. Being sold on the notion of an extra “score” (from sales at the second rally) and not getting one freaking cent has probably had Trump frothing at the mouth.
Fun times!
Worse yet, all the falsified registration data is absolutely useless to help any Republican candidate right now, let alone Trump. At a time when Trump’s cratering poll numbers are threatening to take down the rest of the GOP, that kind of setback is bad to have at five months to go.
Now THAT cracks me up thinking of all the e-mail addresses they thought they got…
[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
Wouldn’t a better selection be Chopin’s “Funeral March?”
I mean, the “Dragnet” theme music suggests an impending investigation of a heinous crime; the Funeral March suggests somebody’s about to meet his end.
On any scale, Brad is well below par
Triple bogie minimum.
Daithi, he should change his name to Brad Below-Par-scale! ?
Meg, he already cashed in. I bet the Cayman’s bank accounts are flush. Brad did real good for himself with grifters r us trump campaign.
Another one of the “best people” gets to hit that revolving White House exit door.
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