Shades Of Iowa State, Trump Resoundingly Booed In SC. He May Not Have It All Sewn Up

What you’re about to see here is intriguing on many levels. Every single day we read how Donald Trump has just bumped up in the polls. Again. We read how everybody, Democrats included, is so fearful of the ancient 81-year-old Joe Biden — yet the soon to be 78 Trump, who has already demonstrated dementia, is just fine, we are told. No problema.

Yet there’s an intriguing phenomenon afoot. I’m calling it a phenomenon, because it’s behavior which is beginning to repeat and form a pattern. Trump goes to a football game, in a red state, one that voted for him, and mobs of people boo him and give him the one finger salute. So tell me somebody, please, how does that comport with the fact that the man is going to soar easily to a second term, like an eagle? Take a look.

Trump arrives at the Clemson-SC game tonight to a chorus of boos. pic.twitter.com/Pkky7JKImB

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) November 26, 2023

Here’s more adoration.

But we don’t hear about this, we hear about how swimmingly everything is going for Donald. Meidas Touch noted that “You can see him peering out pensively from his car as the boos rained down, waiting to pull away to where Cheung/Miller were assembling the adoring fans.” Oh, yes. That’s how it goes.

Trump’s advance team, lead by Steven Cheung and Jason Miller, are as good as it gets when it comes to carefully scripted propaganda. They always have a throng of adoring fans ready and waiting to cheer Trump like he is the new messiah for their social media messaging.

Unfortunately for them, they can’t control everything.

We saw that on full display at the Iowa State game in September. His advance team had him visit an Agriculture School frat house to raucous cheering from the throng of Iowa farm boys. Then as he walked in the stadium, they made sure they had several hundred people cheering loudly as they recorded.

Then he went into the stadium.

That was the part they couldn’t control.

And that’s when this happened.

And Trump’s appearance in South Carolina inspired this wonderful opinion piece.

Trump didn’t show strength Saturday night. It was an ultimate sign of weakness, of fear of a woman he’s afraid to face on the debate stage but who obviously lives rent-free in his head. He probably has trouble sleeping from the constant click-clacking of high-heels ringing in his ears. Trump sycophant McMaster is so blind to that reality, not only is he unashamed of his participation in Saturday night’s farce, he likely doesn’t realize it hurt his preferred candidate more than helped.

Haley’s team won the football game, and she won an important political victory against a man who brags about how tough he is but whose decision to fly into Columbia was political weakness. McMaster and others pretended the man they treated like an emperor had new clothes. But those of us with eyes, and a functioning brain, know the truth, that he was exposed as the naked coward’s bully he’s long been.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster should be ashamed. But you’d have to possess a shred of integrity for shame to be even a possibility, so I get why he isn’t. The University of South Carolina should be ashamed. But it is apparently run by cowards comfortable bending the knee to an obviously-compromised governor, and an even more compromised presidential candidate who inspired a violent attack at the heart of our democracy just a couple years ago.

And I hear South Carolina’s amoral senior U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham was somewhere in the mix Saturday night as well as McMaster and former president Donald Trump sullied the state’s showcase football game by taking a victory lap at halftime of Clemson-USC.

That the pair got as many boos and epithets hurled at them as cheers from the crowd can’t erase the stench that will forever be attached to what turned out to be another Clemson victory.

I flat out don’t believe the polls, on these facts. I’m watching football games in Iowa and South Carolina where Trump is reviled. Let’s see how he does in those states in the actual primaries. His rallies get a lot of press. But the rallies are his MAGA sycophants. There were some of them in both of these football crowds, to be sure. But not enough to drown out the boos and the curses.

Chris Christie was asked about potentially consolidating voters with Nikki Haley in New Hampshire, on CNN’s “State of the Union.” He replied, “This idea of people just doing math and adding up numbers, that’s not the way voters vote. And so I would say to everybody out there, let’s let the campaign move forward. This is the smallest Republican field at this stage in this century that did not include an incumbent.”

Christie might be right. The sewn up Trump vote might not be so sewn up. Let’s face it, friends, we have seen this show before. In 2016, Hillary Clinton had the vote sewn up. Except she didn’t. It would be nothing short of delightful to see Trump go down in flames at the primary. That would be spectacular.

Maybe that’s what Lady Karma has in store. Dare we hope? Because that would be nothing short of hilarious if the Republicans rejected Trump. Which is what they should do. But will they?

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