Admit it. Maybe like me you actually watched live. Or maybe you didn’t but since have seen clips, including her talking about Trump and and not backing down. I, and I’ll bet everyone else (including lots of MAGAs) hands went for our remotes at light speed, fumbling for the “mute” button. Like me you feared the screen behind her would show images of Trump with his fist raised, to a sound track of Lara’s eardrum torturing screeching of her widely panned rendition of Tom Petty’s I Won’t Back Down. But she plowed on and when I realized that wouldn’t happen I uttered words I never thought I’d say (even if to a TV screen) to Lara Trump. Thank you. For sparing us your singing.
Well, that issue aside as I said in the title it was still a vomit inducing speech. Lara, like other speakers who happened to be women and mothers (including Sarah Hucksterbee Sanders – second only to Trump when it comes to spouting outrageous lies) dumped truckload of bullsh*t about what a warm, loving family man, father and grandpa Donald J. Trump is. The guy who when it was time to put a name on the birth certificate objected to his first born being named Don (Jr.) saying ‘What if he turns out to be a loser?’ (Damn if he didn’t get that one right, although HE was largely responsible for Junior becoming a loser) I heard these stories, “Sea Stories” (see the definition of a Sea Story at the end) actually and was thankful I hadn’t had an evening snack. Nothing to puke up. Lies, more lies and again I say flat-out bullsh*t.
Normally it’s the candidate’s wife and/or another family member who takes the stage in prime time to give a speech about the nominee. The “the man I know and love, the person he is away from the camera is just like any other regular American husband, father, grandfather or friend” speech(s). Well, that type of thing isn’t in Melania’s wheelhouse. She projects all the warmth of a statue of her carved out of ice. She’s a paid employee who’s job has been to be arm candy and pump out a child so Trump could nudge his buddies and make cracks about still “getting some.” That’s what Trophy Wives are for and the only reason “Melanie” wasn’t traded in for a younger Trophy Wife #4 is that Trump decided to run for President.
Trump doesn’t know much but he does know TV and what plays well and what doesn’t so the job of “humanizing” him was assigned to other women. (Best of all, unlike Melania they showed up for free!) While I’m sure some, not all of them MAGAs bought it to some degree I think the whole parade was nauseating. Check out what this NPR article had to say and see if you buy what they were selling starting with Lara:
“Our family has faced our fair share of death threats… none of that prepares you as a daughter-in-law to watch in real time someone try to kill a person you love,” she said.
“None of that prepares you as a mother to quickly reach for the remote and turn your young children away from the screen so that they’re not witness to something that scars the memory of their grandpa for the rest of their lives.”
As I said what makes me scramble for the remote is seeing her on TV and fear that she’ll break into song. And while we’re at it Lara, remember how your family starting with your father-in-law has rationalized, approved of and even incited violence. Including former VP Mike Pence who doesn’t have the benefit of the kind of Secret Service Trump has anymore! Or how your father-in-law made light of the brutal assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband which damn near killed him? Any danger Trump or the rest of you have faced since he got into Presidential politics has been faced by every other major Party candidate or President/former President. You should be forced to have to read the hateful and credible threats the Obama’s have gotten, or VP Harris. Anyway let’s move on.
The linked article also dives into Sanders remarks who told tall tales of a warm, down to earth Trump back during her days lying her a$$ off for him and calling him a warm and supporting boss. She told a whopper of her son Huck running around the adults and across the Rose Garden to Trump to ‘give him a hug’:
“Being the gracious person he is, President Trump bent down to give him a big hug,” Sanders recalled.
“And right in front of everyone, Huck sidestepped the president, completely ignoring him in front of everyone and ran straight into my arms,” she continued, to laughter in the audience. Sanders said that as a family man, Trump took the moment in stride.
What an unpleasant reminder of Sander’s only real skill, the ability to spread on layers of bullsh*t with a trowel! Well, whether it was Lara, Sanders, Nikki Haley or others (Kari Lake went off the “unity” script however) the point was to have some women (I don’t remember if it was last night or Monday when Alabama Senator Katie Britt gave another eerie, Stepford GOP woman speech) with at least some name recognition do what Melania Trump could/can never do. Paint Trump as something other than the crass, uncaring ‘doesn’t give a crap about anyone but himself’ guy we (and they) know it truly is.
The talk from Lara and others about the threats to Trump? It goes with the territory. EVERY person and their loved ones has to deal with it because in our country and with our gun-goober culture flooded with weapons that’s just how things are. And do NOT talk to me about what Trump (or his family) have “sacrificed” for this country. Not one of you or anyone in Trump’s ancestry has served so much as one f**king day in uniform, much less in combat arms capacity. Trump and his kin are and have been since his grandfather dodged military service in his native Bavaria been nothing but a bunch of goddamned draft dodgers. And none served in a non-military role that might put them at risk. Say the intelligence community or State Dept. where many postings are high risk. No, Trump ran for President and all of you went along for the ride to GRIFT. To make money from it all.
Will Trump being spared Saturday by the luck of his would be assassin being a lousy shot change him for the better? I doubt it. Trump instinctively knew in the moment if he could pop his fat ugly mug up just long enough for some photos he could make money off it! And THAT is what’s already started to happen. Sacrifice? A warm and loving family man? I call bullshit.
(Sea Story: An old-school term in the Naval Service Marines and Sailors know well. It’s best defined thusly – The difference between a Fairy Tale and a Sea Story is a Fairy Tale begins with “Once upon a time” while a Sea Story begins with “You’re not gonna believe this shi*t!”)
You are absolutely correct Denis! I not only muted my tv but turned the damn thing off. I just can’t stomach liars!
Nice of her not to subject the convention goers with singularly horrific song styling she does. Wish she would extend that courtesy to the rest of us. Can’t un-hear that garbage. Probably never will. Shit she is a horrid “singer”.
5 days of solid f*cking lies. We should get paid for this cruel and usual punishment from the ‘pubes.
Well, she probably would have if she could’ve charged them for the “concert.” But, seeing as how the convention-goers are there (ostensibly for free–beyond whatever costs they incur to going to the convention), she knew she couldn’t. (Even if she did, she knew there’d be a hefty price to pay for it. Dearest Daddy-in-Law would demand at least 80% of anything she made from the “concert.” Even with the captive audience.)
Still…when standing in a room full of demons…she could have sang Sympathy For The Devil…with hellspeak in full force, some gnashing of teeth would have blended right in. She’ll have to wait for standing at the gates of Hell. Don’t worry Lara, it’s coming given the road you’re on.