Trump sways and bops to music for 39 minutes in bizarre town hall episode
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Source: Washington Post
Trump sways and bops to music for 39 minutes in bizarre town hall episode
The scene comes as Vice President Kamala Harris has called Trump, 78, unstable and called into question his mental acuity.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DGZ2G0jGnhk
On Oct. 14, former president Donald Trump had to cut a town hall short in Oaks, Pa., but remained onstage for a half hour swaying to the background music. (Video: Alisa Shodiyev Kaff/The Washington Post, Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
By Marianne LeVine
Updated October 15, 2024 at 1:08 a.m. EDT Published October 14, 2024 at 11:26 p.m. EDT
OAKS, Pa. -- The town hall, moderated by South Dakota Gov. Kristi L. Noem (R), began with questions from preselected attendees for the former president. Donald Trump offered meandering answers for how he would address housing affordability and help small businesses. But it took a sudden turn after two attendees required medical attention.
And so Trump, after jokingly asking the crowd whether "anybody else would like to faint," took a different approach. ... "Let's not do any more questions. Let's just listen to music. Let's make it into a music. Who the hell wants to hear questions, right?" he said. ... He played nine tracks. He danced. He shook hands with people onstage. He pointed to the crowd. Noem stood beside him, nodding with her hands clasped. Trump stayed in place onstage, slowly moving back and forth. He was done answering questions for the night.
"Total lovefest at the PA townhall! Everyone was so excited they were fainting so @realDonaldTrump turned to music," campaign spokesman Steven Cheung wrote on X. "Nobody wanted to leave and wanted to hear more songs from the famous DJT Spotify playlist!"
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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 the 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. It also comes as Vice President Kamala Harris has called Trump, 78, unstable and called into question his mental acuity.
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By Marianne LeVine
Marianne LeVine is a national political reporter for The Washington Post.follow on X @marianne_levine
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/14/trump-music-sways-town-hall/
Sure, Steve.
Ordinarily I don't treat Trump rallies as newsworthy, but this is usually the point where family members start thinking maybe it's time for an intervention.
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The headline still uses "bizarre" when I go to the article. This headline might be on the teaser (i.e., clickbait) page.
Update. Hat tip, Mz Pip
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143322622#post44
Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)
Tue Oct 15, 2024, 11:03 AM
At first it said "bizarre" then they rewrote it to "unusual."
Nearly every comment to the article called them on it or at least saw through it and saw it for what it was - a sundowning old man who has no business being president.
._.
(1,127 posts)My impression was that he was high a/f and in no mood to field questions.
BlueWavePsych
(3,056 posts)Dave Bowman
(3,891 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,869 posts)But I'm not running for President or any office for that matter.
C Moon
(12,610 posts)littlemissmartypants
(25,954 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(61,699 posts)littlemissmartypants
(25,954 posts)chia
(2,401 posts)littlemissmartypants
(25,954 posts)SergeStorms
(19,343 posts)We all appreciate it.
littlemissmartypants
(25,954 posts)littlemissmartypants
(25,954 posts)COL Mustard
(7,004 posts)Hey, I'm just asking questions here.
littlemissmartypants
(25,954 posts)It is associated with a not so persuasive and pristine history. Better suited for a conspiracy theory discussion.
He has substandard preparation and provisions for his rallies. The people are the least of his concerns.
For the psychopath to love is to hurt. Therefore, he's incapable of compassion and motivated by inflicting pain on others.
They are victims, imo. Idiots but also there for him to abuse. Some people who would literally die for someone who doesn't care if they live or die.
The callousness of the comment is what struck me. The attendees are more things than human in his mind.
I really shouldn't have been surprised. But he just outdoes himself in his debasement.
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COL Mustard
(7,004 posts)To make fun of Tucker and the others.
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littlemissmartypants
(25,954 posts)Upthevibe
(9,260 posts)In 2020 they advertised on Craigs list for "actors" and were paying. I saw it with my own eyes. I don't know about this time....
niyad
(120,768 posts)littlemissmartypants
(25,954 posts)Wild blueberry
(7,276 posts)debm55
(38,693 posts)littlemissmartypants
(25,954 posts)Also using another dead musical artist's song on his play list, Sinéad O'Connor.
I wouldn't be surprised if his campaign team doesn't sit at the planning meetings trying to think up dead musicians who they think won't be able to sue. That's how twisted plus stupid they are.
Bozvotros
(845 posts)What a perfect term for that shit weasel dickweed! I'm going to be using that. Thanks!
ShazzieB
(18,942 posts)Sludge Goblin... Sludge Goblin... oh, yes, it fits him to a T!
Thomas Hurt
(13,929 posts)so he was going to make everyone suffer and deprive them of his greatness and godlike oratory.
brush
(58,071 posts)Is there any way to see the video without all the runaround?
From the description of him bopping for thirty minutes to the music, my God, the man is totally gone yet maga ts will still vote for the rapidly declining convict.
chia
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AllyCat
(17,231 posts)It doesnt link to me using their privacy settings. If I ever get a real communication, DDG contacts my actual email for my review.
True Dough
(20,936 posts)Not that I'd encourage anyone to watch the full-length madness, but the choice is yours.
llmart
(16,331 posts)I tried and could only make it through 2 minutes. I got to the point where they started playing Ave Maria and the crowd , or rather cult, chanted USA USA and my mind couldn't process the stupidity of it all.
True Dough
(20,936 posts)Lots of people leave those rallies early. Imagine sticking it out for a couple of hours of that crap? Too far gone!
niyad
(120,768 posts)littlemissmartypants
(25,954 posts)It's likely that you were targeted with an interstitial ad. You can click out of those.
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regnaD kciN
(26,645 posts)the Double Handjob?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(116,593 posts)I don't think he has the stamina to go 39 minutes however.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)Bless you, Stephanie Clifford.
Botany
(72,670 posts)The rock em sock em robots upper cut fist pump
The invisible accordion
The point at an audience member, shit eating grin, and then swaying back and forth
All of the above moves can be done with his feet stuck in cement act.
Doodley
(10,452 posts)keys to the Whitehouse and the nuclear codes.
BattleRow
(1,256 posts)Or,God forbid,
"WHEN I rule the world"..
MistakenLamb
(790 posts)Walleye
(36,477 posts)One commentator said, Trump seem to enjoy the music and the crowd liked it. Swear to God like it was totally normal. Their big news is the polls, of course
From a NYT article: "Mr. Trumps crowd cheered in approval, an indication of how his supporters flock to his rallies to be in his presence as much as to hear him make political points with which they are intimately familiar.
The playlist session was a glimpse of the private version of Mr. Trump seen more often at Mar-a-Lago, his residence and club in Palm Beach, Fla., than at political events."
llmart
(16,331 posts)Turned it off immediately afterwards. Our media is nothing but a joke any more.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,213 posts)Why would I watch it?
gademocrat7
(11,218 posts)He is a shallow demented man in serious need of an intervention.
Marthe48
(19,376 posts)and clicked on dance mode
tanyev
(44,768 posts)get the red out
(13,636 posts)A song on his playlist was one I wanted to add to mine.
Clouds Passing
(2,805 posts)johnnyfins
(1,489 posts)Clouds Passing
(2,805 posts)AdamGG
(1,527 posts)that he's ahead and doesn't need to worry. I wonder if Mussolini, Gaddafi and other dictators had episodes like this. If he were to get re-elected, his first term would seem like a combination of Washington & Lincoln compared to the second - and the first term was fascist unhinged.
Katinfl
(266 posts)YouTube.
Baitball Blogger
(48,460 posts)Isn't this what his next administration is going to look like?
The U.S. is going to be going down like the Titanic, and Trump will be bopping to the music.
niyad
(120,768 posts)obsessions, apparently.
70sEraVet
(4,248 posts)they let you do it!
niyad
(120,768 posts)Mz Pip
(27,941 posts)At first it said bizarre then they rewrote it to unusual.
Nearly every comment to the article called them on it or at least saw through it and saw it for what it was - a sundowning old man who has no business being president.
Ray Bruns
(4,748 posts)Hekate
(95,362 posts)kimbutgar
(23,638 posts)And saw this weird rally. Kristi the puppy killer looked so uncomfortable and awkward. And playing Ave Maria was such an insult. I dont think I can ever hear it again and not see the grotesque orange monster swaying like he could give a $hit in my mind. And insulting one of the attendees that fainted and mocked him weight.
One is a special kind of stupid to still support this man. But at the rate hes going I see him imploding between Noem and Election Day on live tv!
republianmushroom
(18,209 posts)Beartracks
(13,620 posts)malthaussen
(17,790 posts)JohnnyRingo
(19,434 posts)I'm sure YMCA because he knows all the moves, but what others does he think promotes his brand?
I know he's not a music lover, and only plays songs suggested by his handlers. Like "Eye Of The Tiger".
Zambero
(9,783 posts)From the prespective of the captive audience. It must be a daunting task for SNL's skit writers to pick and choose between the non-stop litany of verbal train wrecks and unforced displays of cognitive breakdown.
BattleRow
(1,256 posts)later a Hollywood film,was about a flim flam con man.
Far more entertaining than THIS emBARE ass ing exhibition.
Javaman
(63,201 posts)the orange asshole is around the bend
BlueWavePsych
(3,056 posts)Quanto Magnus
(1,036 posts)the talking heads were marveling at the variety of music in the list.... Totally ignoring the fact that it was a town hall and DonOLD was supposed to be answering questions.
llmart
(16,331 posts)that he "went down into the crowd and shook hands with some of his supporters". From the Washington Post article and the video it shows he only shook hands with those that were on stage with him.
Sane washing by ABC. That term is so appropriate these days.
Montauk6
(8,769 posts)jmbar2
(6,242 posts)Everyone knows it.
I know everything about interpretive dance.
I can interpretive dance like nothing anyone has ever seen before.
malthaussen
(17,790 posts)Seriously, the speed with which his derangement has worsened as the year has progressed is alarming. My former roommate had a rapid descent into la-la land himself back in '20, fine in May and incoherent in September. And dead by December. DJT seems to me (an uneducated layman, to be sure) to be in much the same case.
Of course his handlers and the voters don't care. So long as they can prop him up enough to get the votes, they'll ignore things like this. But I cannot believe they don't have some plan to retire him suddenly if he actually wins this thing.
-- Mal
GopherGal
(2,401 posts)until they get the Fanta Menace out of there and move Peter Thiel's protege into office?
slightlv
(4,466 posts)his kids and other family members obviously don't care enough about him to risk an intervention with him. He'd probably immediately call his lawyer and disinherit everyone involved, they reason. To that family, except maybe Mary Trump, money is more important than blood... unless the blood leads to money.
With hubs having such issues now, and my health going downhill, in some ways, I feel pity for him that there's no one who can take him in hand and do what's right for him... AND the country. His maga cult is just like his family. They're expecting things.. changes to their point of view... a dictatorship where they're on the upper end of the power scale (ha!). They're using him in his condition just as much as his kids are.
Shame on T for not having ever cultivated a sense of responsibility and reason that he could draw on in these last mental days, and absolute Shame on his family for parading him around on stage in his condition. He's a total embarrassment. I at least make sure my hubby is dressed correctly when we go out. And I monitor him and he accepts my help.
SHAME SHAME SHAME on that family.
msfiddlestix
(7,869 posts)red dog 1
(29,563 posts)Are there really that many MAGAts out there?
Ocelot II
(121,549 posts)from Muhammad Saeed Al-Sahhaf, a/k/a Baghdad Bob.
Dave Bowman
(3,891 posts)The image that came to mind while reading this was one of a beached whale, for some reason.
Beartracks
(13,620 posts)=====================
FakeNoose
(36,034 posts)He plays a recording of "Ave Maria" sung by Pavarotti and pretends to sway, etc. There's only one problem with this ... "Ave Maria" especially when it's sung in Latin, is a Catholic prayer. Only Catholics say or sing this prayer ... also known as the "Hail Mary" in English. Most Evangelicals (as well as other Protestants) hate this prayer as much as they hate Catholics.
I'll bet a lot of the audience were probably offending and steaming that Chump played this music. I wonder how many got up and walked out?
dlk
(12,472 posts)On live tv, no less.
twodogsbarking
(12,271 posts)mahina
(19,075 posts)Zorro
(16,487 posts)LPBBEAR
(390 posts)Blissful Valleys Senior Center please stick around for the afternoon music series with "Swing and Sway with DJ T".
LaMouffette
(2,297 posts)insanity defense for his multiple court cases.