12mo ago

Donald Trump calls wife Melania ‘Mercedes’ in CPAC speech

www.independent.co.uk Donald Trump calls wife Melania ‘Mercedes’ in CPAC speech

Former president Donald Trump called Melania ‘Mercedes’ as he praised his wife during a speech in Washington DC. The crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gave the former First Lady a standing ovation as Mr Trump described how “people love her”. “Oh look at that Mercedes, th...

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Can you imagine the wall to wall coverage had it been Biden who called his wife by the wrong name? It would go on for weeks.
Because it's Trump they'll be nary a peep about this from the "liberal" media.
Edit: Confirmed this morning - not a word about Trump's demented rambling on the front pages of CNN, NBC, NYT or WA Post. The GQP front-runner's inability to string a coherent sentence together or remember his wife's name should be front page news. If Biden tripped over a mic stand it would be.
- I've seen it everywhere though? Weird take tbh
  
  Weirder you say you've seen it everywhere. Mainstream media - NYT, NBC, CNN and WA Post have no mention of it.
  
  First I'm hearing about it, and a day after the post was even created.
- Look at that Mercedes wouldn't be a wrong name, it would be objectification to the point of calling your wife a trophy car, not even a trophy wife... Or maybe I read it differently
  
  Mercedes is an actual woman's name:
  "The source of the name was Spanish businesswoman Mercedes Jellinek, whose father Emil Jellinek was a business associate of the company’s founder, Gottlieb Daimler."
  
  Mercedes isn't that rare a name in certain cultures...
  
  Mercedes is the main character in The Merchant of Venice, it's been a woman' name for a long time. Could be his pet name for her?
- I'm baffled that people actually think the media goes after him for his speaking errors. A few people on the right do, but most of the MSM seems to still feel responsible for Trump's election and downplay Biden's mistakes.
  
  It's literally the reverse, they try to frame everything as "this is a problem for Biden", even when he does things successfully, especially NYT really insists on framing everything as a problem. And then they completely ignore most of Trump's failures.
  Don't forget that most of mass media companies has owners with a right wing leaning.

The GOP is about to nominate an old man who can’t remember his 3rd wife’s name who is facing 91 federal charges.
- Not just some old man. An old RAPIST.
  
  An old rapist seditionist traitor
  
  Honestly at this point I don't think you can get the GOP nomination WITHOUT being a rapist.
  
  The GOP doesn’t have a problem with that.
  
  Who enjoys walking into the dressing rooms of underaged pageant contestants and also was friends with a serial pedophile who didn't kill himself
- Who, more importantly, is literally a traitor to our country and attempted to overthrow democracy (albeit a pitiful halfhearted attempt via his angry lapdogs)
  
  GOP doesn’t have a problem with that
- This cognitive debate between two geriatrics is just sad to see. I'm not American, our politicians aren't qualified for other reasons, but I'm so curious to see one of them die in office and the mayhem it's gonna cause when it happens. My stock market play would be completely different LoL.
  
  Dying in office won't produce mayhem. We have a well established process for that. The VP takes over and fights with Congress over who gets appointed as the next VP. The only drama will be who fills that role.
  Dying just before the election? Now that will be a clown show. If the vacancy happens after the party convention the ballots likely wouldn't be able to be changed. However, as you likely know we are not voting for President and VP directly, we are voting for a slate of Electors pledged to the candidates. Many states bind those electors to vote according to the popular vote, and those states would need to pass quick laws changing that process.
  If it's the winning side whose candidate bites it, there needs to be a ton of coordination to all this. Because there is still a process to counting those EC votes. If some votes come in for the deceased candidate at the top of the ticket and some don't, they will likely be counted separately and as a result no one would technically have the majority.
  We do have a weird way to resolve that, though: if the EC has no majority, the House votes on the President and the Senate votes on the VP. But the House vote has an additional wrinkle, in that each State's delegation gets one vote. So, all 50+ of California's members get 1 vote, and Wyoming's Lone member also gets a vote. The math there favors the Republican candidate, even if Democrats control the House.
  It could also result in the Republican choice being President while the Democrat becomes VP, which would make for the world's most awkward Peformance Reviews.

Probably another porn star he cheated on his (then) wife with.
- You're assuming he ever got told their name by the fixer before the poor girl was sent into the room.
  
  As if they couldn't give them a fake name.
  Like a stripper named "Mandy," you wouldn't assume that was her real name.

The thought of the day that I get to watch Donald Trump finally stroke out on stage for good is honestly what keeps me going at this point.
- They will probably come up with a conspiracy of why it is the Liberal's fault
  
  probably?
  
  "He meant to die of a stroke. He sacrificed himself to show the world just what the Jewish new world order is capable of, just like Jesus did. They have weapons they can use to kill any elderly, morbidly obese men they want. If we don't stop them by being super transphobic, you could be next"
- Problem is they'll weekend at Bernie's the situation
  
  I think in politics it's called "doing a McConnell".
  
  As a side note, Bernie is still alive and strong, 84 years old now
- Honestly it's not beyond the realm of possibility.
- No matter how he dies, magatards will claim it's an assassination, guaranteed.
  
  Assassinated by general unwellness & natural causes.

The guy who gave his daughter plastic surgery treats women as objects. It's not even shocking. It's not news. It's nothing. It's obvious. The weird part is, that people like him for it.
- I usually manage to call my possessions by their correct names. Trump has dementia.
  
  The number of people who don't seem to get that is staggering. He's shown clear signs of cognitive decline since at most 2020. I know mental health and elder care professionals that were noticing it as early ad 2016.
  Just watch his interviews from around 9/11. He's still a stupid, pompous, narcissistic, lying piece of shit with delusions of grandiosity, but he could speak coherently and form complete thoughts.
  It's likely only a matter of months before he finally sundowns with cameras on him, although I'm sure his handlers are trying their hardest to keep that from happening.
- They like him for it because they wish they could do the same.
  
  I'd like to believe that most of his voting base don't want to fuck their kids. Donnie was just raised in a... special environment, which produced his ah bigly brain
- He confused the names of men as well
- People don't "like him for it" they like him despite it. Just because people like an unlikable person doesn't mean they like everything about him.
  
  They like him because he does the horrible things that they want him to do. He hurts the people they don't like.

Some witch named Mercedes is polishing his mushroom. That’s fine tho, I’m sure melanoma has a side piece.
- I said this in another thread that I bet some stripper or Porn star was banging him on the side and he slipped again.
  Just imagine if Biden called Jill Biden ‘Jane’ or the like - the media would be be all over him for days poking fun at his supposed dementia.
- Considering Donald's well-documented desire to play the world's most disappointing game of hide-the-underfilled-cocktail-frank with his own daughter, maybe Eric is that side piece. Shit doesn't fall far from the ass.
- I wonder what he calls his daughter.
  
  "I wanna" Trump

I mean, it doesn't make it better, but he got confused because he was talking about Mercedes Schlapp earlier.
- This context is pretty important. I'm in my 20s and my brain would do this too
  
  Context is important: this is trump so it's not going to impact his candidacy. If the context were Biden, however, ...
  
  But you're not trying to become a president
- He had booty on the mind.

Makes perfect sense.
Trump probably regards her as an acquisition, like a luxury car.
- Nah Occam's razor.
  He's fucking someone named Mercedes.
  
  I'm getting this really disturbing mental image of someone using spray tan as lube.
  
  Nah Occam's razor is that he's senile
  
  He's almost 80 and hasn't seen his pecker since the Regan administration. He ain't fucking at all.
  
  He was fucking someone named Mercedes in 1992 and dementia kicked in
  
  Slightly better than fucking someone nicknamed BMW. Must be from Cleveland.
- I mean, he bought her.
- Mercedes could be the name of a stripper.

Is his brain even going to last the nine months til the election? It feels like in just a month or two he will have degraded to saying the n-word on stage while talking about how bad he wants to fuck his daughter.
- I'm actually not sure that would hurt his chances of winning
  
  Republicans are fine with killing transgenders but saying the n word might be too much. Not ironical.

What are the odds that we just learned what he has been calling her at home for years?
- ~~at home~~ in bed...

Direct video clip https://youtu.be/2v2BnB6jn2g
- The cut before he says "Mercedes that's pretty good" kinda annoys me. Is there a full uncut version? Honestly it seems like footage manipulation, I'm not really sure that he is talking about Melania in that sentence.
  
  Unfortunately he is not losing his mind just yet… he is in fact addressing Mercedes Schlapp who is actually in the audience.
  I had to look into it because it also seemed to me that these were two unrelated sentences.
  
  How he stings together sentences, even if the previous one was about his wife, this one could be about cars, and the next one might be about air in potato chip bags.

What a...
Really, there are no words.
- I am continually amazed by the USA. How does he get so much support? Why are all your candidates walking corpses? How did it get to this point?
  
  Look around.
  How did Modi get so much support?
  How did Johnson get so much support?
  How did Le Pen get so much support?
  How did Meloni get so much support?
  How did Erdogan get so much support?
  How did Orban get so much support?
  How did Netanyahu get so much support?
  How did Wilders get so much support?
  Awful leaders with popular support are by no means unique to the USA.
  
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  We don't know either
- Mercedes is a word.
  
  vroom vroom
  
  But kofefae is not
- There is no word yet. In a couple of decades we will be calling obvious stupid liars a "trump."

Weird flex.

Melanoma?
- Melodrama?
  
  Mercenary
- Moley Russell's wart.

You people are overthinking this would your talks of dementia and objectification. Have you even considered that Mercedes could be her "stage" name ... or the name of wife number 4!

He's been playing too much Dragon's Dogma.

He was comparing her to a car most likely. Seems like something he would do.
- While it does seem like something he would do, watch the clip, listen to his cadence. He is not comparing her to a car, he is using Mercedes as a name.

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