Trump has also fielded calls from donors who are upset about his running mate, JD Vance, and the Ohio senator’s previous comments including referring to Harris as a ‘childless cat lady.”
Trump dismissed calls for Vance to be replaced on the ticket, but he also asked advisers if they were aware of the comments before Vance was selected.
At the Hamptons dinner, Trump also downplayed the Democrats’ strategy of painting the GOP as “weird.”
“Not about me. They’re saying that about JD,” Trump said, according to the Times.
Oof. Incredible lack of self-awareness while also throwing your running mate under the bus lol
Trump whipped a violent mob into a frenzy ready to actually lynch his last running mate. JD just needs to look at Pence to see what his own future holds.
If by "genuinely thinks" you mean "is in denial", sure. It's not so much a matter of believing it or not, he just says what he wants to be true, simple as.
I feel like it was the kind of thing that worked better before articles were written about it and then literally every article and comment since then has included the word.
Openly talking about it as a strategy feels like it’s turning it into our version of “Let’s Go Brandon” in a way.
I thought the same thing, but it has sparked a huge discussion about if the word "weird" is a good label for Trump, Vance, and the most fervent MAGA supporters. When you're fighting a cult, I have a feeling it works.
that's one of the reasons why the dropout was a good idea. it came so soon after the shooting and made such waves that it completely drowned the shooting.
it helps that a. he didn't really get hurt and b. he's super unpopular, so the reaction from people who weren't already in the maga cult ranged from "don't give a shit" to "you had one job".
i think he's super demoralized so he doesn't even feel like campaigning. the press conference was probably people around him telling him that Harris has been dominating the media and getting ahead in the polls so he had to show his orange mug before people completely forgot about him (ah, we should be so lucky).
mind that one of the factors in 2016 was that he was so outrageous that he got billions of dollars worth of free advertising. now people are talking about Harris, walz and couches.
Joe leaving the race effectively wiped out anything from that event. Trump for once is the victim of the mass adhd that is our current media and cultural environment. I myself have forgotten several times that he was even shot at, and he's not good at keeping it front and center in anyone's mind either.
It's a dog whistle. He just wants to constantly remind his racist cult that she's black, so they won't focus on him being senile, belligerent, and stupid.
I live in a blue state. Almost all of the kids I see nowadays are mixed race. This sort of shit is almost over. As soon as the boomers die out, there won’t be a majority white voter.
In some far future utopia we will've all interbred and evolved to a nice caramel/olive skin and our descendents will imagine us as cavemen. If we mange to make it that long.
I gotta say this is actually something I'm disappointed by.
Not because I want white people to survive forever or think any race is better than the other but because I like the idea of living in a world with other races. Like a fantasy setting with different types of elves or whatnot.
I like the diversity and would love to see just how different each race could become while still being the same species.
Yeah, I feel like it was the kind of thing that worked better before articles were written about it and then literally every article and comment since then has included the word.
Openly talking about it as a strategy feels like it's turning it into our version of "Let's Go Brandon" in a way.
This won't go well for him. Even after the meeting the Republicans had when they were told not to be racist and misogynistic against Harris they still can't help themselves.
Racial Colorblindness is still racism. Kamala Harris, like anyone mixed race or nonwhite, has had a measurably different experience living in America than her white peers.
Fixating on her race the way Trump and Republicans are doing is absolutely racist.
But hand waving her racial identity away like it is irrelevant is also quite a racist thing to do.
The human race is an unscientific way of saying single species of human called homosapiens. There aren't more, just us multicolored assholes. Now replace "race" with the real thing... "Trumpfus persists in insulting Harris by calling her a fake black person as his campaign flounders since shooting: 'I think I'm fucking racist"
Casual racism is what laid the foundation of his cult. He stoked the flames for 8 years with an obsession when Obama hurt his fee-fees at a correspondents dinner and he's been riding on that wave this whole time