In a desperate attempt to try and own Democrats, Donald Trump Jr. and his brother, Eric, thought it’d be hilarious to dress as “garbage” for Halloween, a jab at President Joe Biden, who slammed comedian Tony Hinchcliffe for calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” during a rally held at Madison Square Garden last Sunday by their father, failed former president Donald Trump.
Instead, the two Trump sons only wound up humiliating themselves and getting endlessly mocked on social media.
Here’s Don Jr’s pathetic costume:
Happy Halloween 🎃 👻 Embrace their hate and own it. Then VOTE! I'm fine being garbage like the rest of you deplorable and irredeemables @ patriots!!! Love you all hope you have a blast tonight!!! pic.twitter.com/Z8FgFrl2JS
With the 2024 presidential election now less than a week away, Republicans are growing more anxious as they see that their candidate, Donald Trump, is more unpopular than ever and dropping precipitously in the campaign’s latest internal polls.
That’s the word from GOP political strategist Margaret Hoover, who shared her thoughts on the final days of the 2024 race with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
“I think if you’re the Trump campaign, you’re not looking at CNN’s numbers. You’re looking at your own internals.”
“And I honestly think — I think their internals are actually giving them pause,” Hoover added. “They do have a lot of resources for polling, more than … media companies have, and they’re probably seeing the same things that you guys are talking about, which is that there is real groundswell in the early vote.”
“There is real enthusiasm, which is hard to measure,” she noted. “I have heard from Republicans that there is concern at the Trump campaign — amongst the operatives that actually really do know the political wherewithal — that the turnout and enthusiasm numbers aren’t where they need to be.”
But perhaps the most troubling numbers for Trump’s flagging campaign can be found in the early vote breakdowns by demographic group, with women casting more ballots than their male counterparts. Considering that abortion is the biggest issue before voters, that doesn’t bode well for Trump or Republicans who are on the ballot with him.
Given what we know so far statistically, this election could easily turn into a Blue wave.
In an attempt to make political hay off comments from President Joe Biden aimed at a comedian who spoke at a rally for convicted felon/former president Donald Trump, the 2024 Trump campaign thought it would be a great idea to stage a photo-op on Wednesday with a garbage truck.
But the desperate bid for attention nearly led to a massive face-plant for Trump, who was momentarily unable to grab the door handle and came close to slipping and going face-first into the asphalt.
At a Wisconsin campaign rally later in the evening, Trump tried to shrug off the humiliation by blaming it on the size of the vehicle.
“I said how the hell do you get into this truck? It’s way up high. I said they didn’t have to buy it that big, right? You have to get it that big?”
“So the first stair’s like up here,” Trump claimed, placing his arm at his waist, even though the stair was actually at knee height. “I said, ‘Shit.’ So I had the adrenaline going and I made it.”
Trump: I climbed into the truck.. The first stair is like up here… I had the adrenaline going and I made it. pic.twitter.com/5MgeQV80dH
Oh, he made it, all right. He wound up as the butt of a joke that has gone viral on several social media platforms and caused new questions about the wisdom of possibly electing a 78-year-old man to be president, especially since he continues to show signs of serious mental and physical deterioration.
A sampling of the online comments proves that whoever set up the garbage truck photo-op made an enormous mistake.
Next Tuesday on Election Day, don’t be surprised if you hear frequent references to two terms: Red mirage and blue shift.
What exactly do those terms mean? As CNN explained recently, they refer to Republicans’ early lead after polls close and the dramatic shift of Democrats’ lead as mail-in ballots and those from large population centers are tallied.
The following days would include dramatic hours spent watching the counting of votes in these states. The vote count didn’t reflect a Biden lead in Georgia until early in the morning of November 6, when, as CNN’s Phil Mattingly showed viewers on the Magic Wall, small batches of votes were being counted and affecting the very close election.
That red mirage and blue shift are likely to be exploited by former president Donald Trump this year, former Clinton administration Secretary of Labor Robert Reich warns in a video he posted on YouTube, with Trump likely using it to once again suggest the election has been rigged against him.
This “dirty Trump trick,” Reich explained, “doesn’t work if you know it’s coming.”
Referencing 2020, Reich notes, Trump “pretended the blue shift was surprising and suspicious,” but in reality there was “nothing miraculous or secret about it.”
The 2024 election is also expected to be neck-and-neck, Reich continues, so Trump will probably “appear to be ahead and, again, use that early lead to falsely claim victory.”
“Mirages can be confusing, but if you know what they are, you won’t be fooled by them,” Reich concludes.
No election is complete until all of the ballots have been counted. Granted, it can be maddening when we have to wait days for the results, but that’s just the way democracy works.
Disgraced ex-president Donald Trump is spiraling out of control in the final days of the 2024 election, and something he said Monday during a campaign rally in Atlanta sounds like a threat aimed directly at former first lady Michelle Obama.
“You know who was nasty to me? Michelle Obama.”
“I always tried to be so nice and respectful,” he added, which is about as far from the truth as anything the failed former president has ever uttered.
Then came the threat.
Michelle Obama “opened up a little bit of a, a little bit of a box,” Trump said. “She opened up a little bit of something. Oh, she was nasty, oooh.”
“That was a big mistake that she made.”
Here’s the video. The comments about Mrs. Obama begin at the 1:28:00 mark:
The remarks from Trump were shared online by the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, which called it an “unhinged rant” that sounds like he’s “seeking retribution.”
Trump goes on unhinged rant about Michelle Obama and hints at seeking retribution: “Nasty to me… That was a big mistake that she made” pic.twitter.com/RRQNJgrrSz
Others on social media also joined the discussion.
Trump: “You know who was nasty to me? Michelle Obama. I always try to be so nice and respectful. She opened up a little bit of a box…That was a big mistake that she made”
