What a day. You may rest assured that the phones of wealthy donors are ringing off the hook as are the phones to Trump’s campaign. If his campaign managers are doing anything other than shutting their phones off and hiding in darkened offices with the shades drawn, I will be amazed. First of all, there is a controversial amendment on the ballot in Florida about a 6-week ban on abortions. Finally, a reporter cornered Trump and asked him how he intended to vote on that measure. (Assuming he can vote. As a convicted felon he might not be able to vote until after he’s served his sentence.) But I digress. Here’s what he said.
There go the evangelical voters that he desperately needs…
Also, absolutely no woman will be swayed by this.
— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) August 29, 2024
I don’t know the motivation behind Trump deciding to go this way. But there will be howls of outrage, on that you may depend. Now here’s the other late-breaking story today.
Former President Trump said on Thursday that the cost of in vitro fertilization would be covered by the government or insurance companies for “all Americans that need it” if he is elected in November.
The big picture: The GOP presidential nominee said he’d mandate the coverage but didn’t specify how his proposal would work.
- “We’re doing this because we just think it’s great and we need great children, beautiful children in our country,” Trump told NBC News.
Catch up quick: IVF has become a friction point in politics since Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled that embryos were considered people.
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After clinics paused IVF care, the GOP presidential nominee said he supported IVF availability.
Zoom out: IVF has become a top campaign issue for Democrats, who have linked Trump to restrictions on reproductive care.
One commonality in both these issues, Trump is all too happy to flip flop if it will bring him votes. Another commonality is that they’re both hot button topics. Let’s just throw in another story here to prove that Trump is not only unstable and waffling on key issues, but that he’s downright nuts.
According to the progressive watchdog Media Matters, the former president promoted QAnon — an expansive conspiracy that claims Trump is waging battle against satanic forces that control the government — at least 15 times on Wednesday morning. These included images using the conspiracy slogan “Where We Go One, We Go All,” and references to the conspiracy’s belief that “the storm is coming.”
What Donald Trump's verified account on Truth Social is reposting pic.twitter.com/paMBc6HhIN
— Azi™️ (@Azi) August 28, 2024
You might want to go to Twitter and examine each one of those posts in detail. They’re all batshit. Pure QAnon drivel. Yet the GOP candidate saw fit to repost these things yesterday and God knows what he’ll be reposting tomorrow.
A senior Trump campaign official tells Rolling Stone that they are consistently relieved, for the sake of their 2024 campaign, that the former president’s main social media home is now Truth Social, if only because it limits the public reach and media attention that these kinds of posts receive, as Trump is trying to appeal to moderate and swing voters in the final months of the election. If Trump were still using X, formerly Twitter, as his primary social vehicle, this official asserts, the more “unhelpful” posting and reposting sprees would get more public traction and drive more news cycles. (Trump has been posting on X more frequently since Elon Musk interviewed him earlier this month, but the bulk of his ranting takes place on Truth Social.)
Don’t expect that to stay the case because Truth Social may not last as long as the Trump campaign, which will end one way or the other on November 5. So in the past 24 hours Trump has:
- Antagonized both the anti-abortion crowd and Ron DeSantis personally with his stance on the Florida amendment;
- Offered a medical service for free with no explanation whatsoever on how he would accomplish such a thing;
- Spent hours reposting QAnon conspiracy theory.
America will vote in 67 days. I hope that some of this weirdness filters down to them and let’s them know that this man doesn’t belong anywhere near the White House.
Yep! The lunatic has most definitely snapped in his fossil mould. Even he confirms it, in his incredulous indecisions wrapped in responses and postings. Undeniable!
Say what? This what a political train wreck looks like in motion and it’s only going to get better. I can’t wait for the abortion issue to come up in the debate, as it surely will if trump is still around. In a week or so he could be on board a drug submarine headed for Caracas and Vance will be his stand-in. The gods must be ROFL.
Trump reportedly voted in the primary on the 20th. I still don’t know why he was allowed to do so.
😣 why indeed. Ugh. How is it the rule-breakers always seem to be able to break the rules with impunity? I seriously don’t get it. How?
Mag the rich make the rules for the rest of us…not for themselves. Hey I voted for Obama twice, but EVEN HE let the ultra rich walk after stealing hundreds of millions of dollars in 2008-2009, crashing the economy and having millions of us foreclosed out of our homes. Meanwhile 700,000 citizens were arrested per year for cannabis, on a scheduling put in place by a criminal president, pardoned for his crimes, and he did it contrary to the facts, for political reasons. FACT! Oh and it remains there 54 years later, still putting hundreds of thousands into jail.