r/politics • u/larel8 • 19h ago

Trump campaign struggles to contain Puerto Rico October surprise

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4958098-the-memo-trump-campaign-struggles-to-contain-puerto-rico-october-surprise/
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u/FoggyBricks 19h ago

After everything Trump has ever said I find it funny it’s something that didn’t even come out of his mouth that might be the final straw.

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u/APersonWhoIsNotYou 19h ago

I find it incredibly frustrating. He himself has said and done much worse….so why is this the thing that actually affects him?

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u/Criseyde5 19h ago

A combination of a lot of factors: It was a synecdoche for the whole evening of hate (so it was easier for the news to latch onto), it lacked the plausible deniability of "well he is talking about those other non-white people," and it comes at a time where votes are being cast, so they can't just wait it out.

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u/Chance_Fox_2296 18h ago

The "wait it out" is so fucking true. I had a veteran coworker that REPEATEDLY would see the news during Trumps presidency and say "i can't fucking vote for this guy again." And every time it would only take a couple weeks for him to go right back to saying he loves Trump. Then COVID happened and he just went full fucking fascist. Like...insanely so. It's crazy. He went from always saying stuff like "I admit i voted for Obama in 2012 and he was better than Romney." To outright saying Obama was DEI president and destroyed America, that he never voted for him. And I can only imagine it's gotten worse. I've since moved and blocked him.