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LetMyPeopleVote

(155,389 posts)
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 07:37 AM Oct 15

'What on earth?' Morning Joe panel marvels at 'truly strange scene' at Trump event

TFG is clearly senile



https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-music/

Donald Trump abruptly stopped answering questions at a town hall event in Oaks, Pennsylvania, Monday but instead remained onstage for nearly 40 minutes, dancing and swaying to an eclectic mix of songs as many supporters streamed out of the venue.

The former president paused the question-and-answer session after an attendee suffered a medical issue, and then halted a discussion moderated by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem after another person succumbed to heat inside the building. Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" compared that to Kamala Harris' recent schedule.....

"If you're just waking up wondering what on earth you're watching right now, this is a Donald Trump rally last night in Pennsylvania where there were two – it was incredibly hot in the room, we're told by reporters who were there," added co-host Willie Geist. "People arrive early, stand up for a long time. There were two medical incidents where people passed out. They were both okay, thank goodness.

"After the second person passed out, Donald Trump decided it was time to stop doing the Q-and-A for some reason. I think he sensed people had been standing and maybe were bored. He had his staff just play music for 39 minutes, nine songs, I believe in total, ranging from Pavarotti to Guns 'n' Roses. He took with Gov. Kristi Noem and danced and swayed for 40 minutes, and then left and walked off the stage. Truly a strange scene there."

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'What on earth?' Morning Joe panel marvels at 'truly strange scene' at Trump event (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Oct 15 OP
The felon is a bdamomma Oct 15 #1
G.O.P. don't give a shit. They all deranged. BoRaGard Oct 15 #2
They want to burn bdamomma Oct 15 #8
Grifter grabs headlines without saying a word Blue Dotty Oct 15 #3
Imagine if Joe Biden had zoned out like this. Can you imagine that? LetMyPeopleVote Oct 15 #4
But we have to understand get the red out Oct 15 #5
Had the doors opened, too, to let cool air in. wnylib Oct 15 #31
Trump's rallies are hot, hot, hot! Omnipresent Oct 15 #6
Doesn't lock them in YET get the red out Oct 15 #7
When a loved one desperately needs adult day care, tanyev Oct 15 #9
Has anyone seen Kimberly Guilfoyle lately? Kid Berwyn Oct 15 #10
Is she recognizable? chicoescuela Oct 15 #11
Not since she became a MAGA mama. bluesbassman Oct 15 #14
To those who'd eat pets or their children's Goya, perhaps not. Kid Berwyn Oct 15 #18
😂😂 Traildogbob Oct 15 #30
Or as some of the "holy rollers" would surmise "2 people were Slain in The Spirit in his presence" LiberalArkie Oct 15 #12
MaddowBlog-'Let's just listen to music': Trump's townhall event gets weird LetMyPeopleVote Oct 15 #13
Trump swaying to the music lindalou65 Oct 15 #15
It's not a rationale. Jirel Oct 15 #16
So the article says this normal? Boomerproud Oct 15 #23
Nothing makes sense! karynnj Oct 15 #25
His Dancing Style reminds of the Seinfeld Character Elaine Benice Jacson6 Oct 15 #17
I think he didn't sit in the seat offered because badhair77 Oct 15 #19
😮 Here are all 38 minutes of it. Amazing. CoopersDad Oct 15 #20
I have not watched all of this soandso Oct 15 #29
Like you, I just skipped to see if it was real, and what songs played. CoopersDad Oct 15 #33
lol! soandso Oct 15 #34
Good news is no dogs were harmed at the event! yellowcanine Oct 15 #21
Now is the time at the rally when we dance. Ray Bruns Oct 15 #22
Harris's rally was engaging and informative... lame54 Oct 15 #24
The story is all over Twitter and other social media nolabear Oct 15 #26
This is dictator behavior. They figure they can do whatever Klarkashton Oct 15 #27
In some circles it is known as 'spaced out'. republianmushroom Oct 15 #28
He can't have the *love* he craves: D.J./social director, talent at music & singing, Berlusconi orgies, UTUSN Oct 15 #32

bdamomma

(66,713 posts)
1. The felon is a
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 07:41 AM
Oct 15

sick fcuk. He doesn't give a crap about Americans or the weather disasters in the Southeast or in Florida. He won't care when he starts rounding people up either, he is unfit.

BoRaGard

(3,125 posts)
2. G.O.P. don't give a shit. They all deranged.
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 07:41 AM
Oct 15

They all eager to piss and shit all over the truth, their very own Bible teachings, and American democracy.

As the evidence makes clear.

Blue Dotty

(71 posts)
3. Grifter grabs headlines without saying a word
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 07:48 AM
Oct 15

I am sure he is smirking and bragging this morning about how easy it is to suck all the oxygen out of the room.

get the red out

(13,630 posts)
5. But we have to understand
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 07:49 AM
Oct 15

He was actually showing compassion for his followers by allowing them to finally sit down in the apparent sauna. Compassion is a rare and beautiful thing for Trump, blink that one time and you'll miss it.

Or he could just be sliding head-long into dementia. I am not a Dr., but both my Grandmothers, and currently my Mother, made that horrible slide.

Omnipresent

(6,461 posts)
6. Trump's rallies are hot, hot, hot!
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 07:51 AM
Oct 15

At least he doesn’t lock them in, so they are free to leave and look for busses that aren’t outside.

tanyev

(44,700 posts)
9. When a loved one desperately needs adult day care,
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 07:56 AM
Oct 15

not many families think of urging their loved one to run for president, but it seems to be working for the Trump family.

Kid Berwyn

(18,297 posts)
18. To those who'd eat pets or their children's Goya, perhaps not.
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 09:23 AM
Oct 15


With apologies to Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Traildogbob

(10,168 posts)
30. 😂😂
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 12:16 PM
Oct 15

Look for the loud mouth that looks like packaging bubble wrap. The bubble lips may be firmly suctioned to trumps fat ass. I am Wondering where that “BEST” is that was yet to come?
We were told to start Being Best back in 2016.
Maybe the amazing Bidenomics was the Best to come she spoke of, but the media just will not publicize the Best.
Personally, it’s nice to not see her mug with tire tube lips anywhere.
The Coke head has moved on. Searching for a good family value woman. Maybe Loomer will attach her lips to Jr. Daddy Trump just could no Full”Fill” her needs.
Time to exile all Trump criminals that sold and are selling out the country.
We got some deporting of our own to get to.
And start with the suits, with “Trickle Down” to the boots. And make damn sure a hand full of Supremacy Court criminals are in the mix.
Democracy, Love it or Leave it! .

LiberalArkie

(16,645 posts)
12. Or as some of the "holy rollers" would surmise "2 people were Slain in The Spirit in his presence"
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 08:18 AM
Oct 15

LetMyPeopleVote

(155,389 posts)
13. MaddowBlog-'Let's just listen to music': Trump's townhall event gets weird
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 08:20 AM
Oct 15

Donald Trump was already facing questions about his mental acuity and cognitive abilities. Then he bobbed his head to music for 39 minutes at an event.




If you heard that Trump's Philly-area townhall event got a little weird, you heard correctly.

I've seen a lot of Trump gatherings, but this was the first in which he just bobbed his head to music for 39 minutes.


https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/lets-just-listen-music-trumps-townhall-event-gets-weird-rcna175449

With three weeks remaining in the election cycle, Kamala Harris is increasingly focused on Donald Trump’s steadiness — or lack thereof. In fact, at the Democratic vice president’s most recent rally, she specifically referred to the former Republican president as “unstable,” a week after The New York Times ran a front-page report noting that the GOP nominee “has seemed confused, forgetful, incoherent [and] disconnected from reality lately.

If Trump hoped a townhall-style event just north of Philadelphia would help end such chatter, he was likely disappointed once it was over. NBC News reported:

Former President Donald Trump turned a town hall event in front of supporters in Oaks, Pennsylvania into an impromptu listening party Monday night, playing a unlikely selection of tunes for more than 30 minutes after the event was paused for medical emergencies. Trump is famed for his lengthy and unorthodox political rallies, but none have followed such an unusual format, featuring the Republican nominee swaying along and occasionally punching the air to songs....


To be sure, there was some Q&A during the event. Someone asked Trump about his plan to address grocery prices, for example, and his odd answer included references to Hannibal Lecter — who remains a fictional character that the former president frequently talks about for reasons unknown — and immigrants taking Black jobs.......

I can appreciate the awkwardness of the circumstances. As first responders tended to a couple of attendees, it’s likely that Trump didn’t just want to proceed with the townhall as if nothing had happened. But he could’ve spoken to his supporters or perhaps had some back-and-forth with South Dakoka Gov. Kristi Noem, who was moderating the gathering.

Instead, there was a lot of this:




.....The Post’s report added that Trump “turned the event into almost a living-room listening session of his favorite songs from his self-curated rally playlist,” adding, “As Trump stood onstage in his oversize suit and bright red tie, swaying back and forth, it was almost as if he were taking a trip back to decades past. Trump’s decision to cut short the question-and-answer portion of the town hall and instead have the crowd stay to listen to his favorite songs was a somewhat bizarre move, given that the election was only 22 days away.”

If the former president wants questions about his mental fitness and cognitive abilities to go away, he’ll have to do better than this.

Indeed, Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii wrote online the morning after the event, “That thing Trump did last night is not explainable and it is not small. It shows that he’s increasingly detached from reality. Everyone knows if Biden or Harris did that it would be media mayhem. He’s not ok, and you can’t ignore it anymore.”

lindalou65

(298 posts)
15. Trump swaying to the music
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 08:28 AM
Oct 15

According to The Hill, here is the rationale for his strange behavior:
Trump plays music for supporters after town hall cut short due to medical emergencies. Sorry, I tried to attach the actual article, but it didn't work. The jist of the article is that there were two medical emergencies due to fainting because the room was like a sauna.

For what it's worth.


Jirel

(2,259 posts)
16. It's not a rationale.
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 09:02 AM
Oct 15

That was already known. If someone goes down (2 people fainted, that’s it, in a super hot venue), you keep going, or you take a few minutes break and get back to it. Or, you acknowledge it’s super hot, tell everyone they should go home, drink, and rest, and end it. You don’t KEEP them there doing nothing but listening to your favorite songs while you chill out for 30+ minutes, while Kristi Noem (watch the clips) acts like a granddaughter to a demented elder, asking carefully what he’d like to do now so she can keep him content and not sundowning hard.

karynnj

(59,999 posts)
25. Nothing makes sense!
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 11:43 AM
Oct 15

Dancing? to music certainly would make a hot room hotter. Why does at least one woman on a side stage have what looks like a winter coat on.

Does Noem have a sense of how weird it is that MAGA are dancing to YMCA. Can they possibly not understand the lyrics? But, at least that was music that people dance too. Unlike several other songs.

Could it be that he thinks just not raging full of anger is a plus?

badhair77

(4,659 posts)
19. I think he didn't sit in the seat offered because
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 09:26 AM
Oct 15

he had a stool problem, and not the chair kind. I think he had a diaper issue. My great-nephew squirms and sways when his is full, too.

CoopersDad

(2,915 posts)
20. 😮 Here are all 38 minutes of it. Amazing.
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 09:40 AM
Oct 15

It's a new crazier shade WTF from the Felon.

Giant background reads: "I WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!".

 

soandso

(1,631 posts)
29. I have not watched all of this
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 12:07 PM
Oct 15

because I simply don't want to invest the time. That said, I skipped through that and do you think the dog and goat killer must have been thinking through all that? I'll bet that's the last time she appears with him, lol.

CoopersDad

(2,915 posts)
33. Like you, I just skipped to see if it was real, and what songs played.
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 02:33 PM
Oct 15

I hope he keeps pushing the envelop, maybe he'll drop trou and poop on stage or something.

And you know what? It would STILL be a close race.

yellowcanine

(36,351 posts)
21. Good news is no dogs were harmed at the event!
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 09:47 AM
Oct 15

(Even though the dog shooting governor was there).

lame54

(37,168 posts)
24. Harris's rally was engaging and informative...
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 11:15 AM
Oct 15

But not newsworthy
Trump's weirdness trumps competence and urgency

nolabear

(43,276 posts)
26. The story is all over Twitter and other social media
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 11:47 AM
Oct 15

I wondered if media would cover it adequately because it was almost every trend at one point on Twitter and other social media. The videos are truly bizarre.

As I write Andrea Mitchell is talking about it now. Good!

Edit: I should have known Andrea would say it wont help Kamala.

Klarkashton

(2,283 posts)
27. This is dictator behavior. They figure they can do whatever
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 11:47 AM
Oct 15

Crazy shit they want and people will abide and they apparently did.

UTUSN

(72,658 posts)
32. He can't have the *love* he craves: D.J./social director, talent at music & singing, Berlusconi orgies,
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 12:39 PM
Oct 15

and secret urges.


*** I learned that the NY Post in the Comments doesn't allow the words "snowflakes" and "orgies".




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