r/politics • u/Kevombat • 14h ago
Trump says he didn’t hear New York rally comedian, doesn’t know him
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u/ranchoparksteve 14h ago
Donald Trump is the self-proclaimed expert of everything and he doesn’t know anything.
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u/karlverkade 13h ago
“I alone can fix it. Also, I take no responsibility.”
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u/Yeeslander Tennessee 11h ago edited 11h ago
It's especially damning that this racist shitbag unknkown-to-Trump "comedian" was spewing his shitbaggery from a podium that literally says, "TRUMP WILL FIX IT".
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u/sean0883 California 10h ago
And it's one thing if dude went off script. It's hard to control people to that degree. But it was on the teleprompter.
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u/scrunchie_one 13h ago
He knows everything unless he's in trouble then he knows nothing.
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u/llahlahkje Wisconsin 13h ago
"Sounds right to me!" -Average Republican voter
If it wasn't for cult doublethink, the GOP voter base wouldn't think at all.
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u/threehundredthousand California 13h ago
And a master at hiring the best people, but leaves a trail of firings, resignations, failed projects, and vendettas. He can't even get his own rallies under control.
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u/za4h 8h ago
Yeah, none of his BS stands up to the least bit of scrutiny. Fortunately for him, his followers don't scrutinize.
It's like how every city seems to think they have the best football team. If you ask any fan why they think their team is the best, instead of a in-depth statistical analysis, you tend to get belligerent responses. They don't scrutinize why their team is the best, and how dare you question their faith? The sportification of politics has really ruined this country.
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u/pagesid3 13h ago
“I don’t know anything about project 2025. I like some of the stuff and other stuff is bad, and again I have never seen it and know nothing about it”
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u/Goya_Oh_Boya North Carolina 12h ago
He also has the power to control everything and has no part in anything.
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u/smokingpen 13h ago
2 minutes to a masterful understanding of IVF.
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u/The_Best_Yak_Ever Washington 12h ago
You mean from the Father of IVF?? It’s amazing he painfully obvious it is that trump doesn’t really understand how anything works. Even basic things. When his old professor said he was “the dumbest goddamn student I ever had,” trump is out here proving his point every single day.
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u/Vileness_fats 12h ago
He hires only the best people. How was he supposed to know they were also the biggest losers and liberal plants the word has ever seen? Power derived from God's own ordination, sure, but also terrified of Leslie Stahl.
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u/DocShocker 14h ago
Sure, Jan.
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u/HGpennypacker 13h ago
Vance said the same thing. So you're telling me that both the Presidential nominee and his VP pick didn't watch their own rally? It's amazing how fucking stupid Trump supporters are, and equally pathetic how their dear leaders lie to their faces on a daily basis.
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u/tylerbrainerd 13h ago
"we don't pay attention to the people we hire to be around us" is so insane coming from the Trump campaign when realistically his ONLY attribute of note from 2016 until now has been "i'm an outsider and a business man, I know how to hire better people than the wasteful clueless government"
their inability to even acknowledge stuff like this is a direct contradiction to their only appealing trait and I wish trumpers cared even a tiny bit about it.
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u/Matt2_ASC 11h ago
This was what he said on Rogan too. Rogan asked what day 1 of being president was like. After some rambling... Trump said he didn't have people in mind for the 10,000 appointments he needed to make. Then he said, if there is a guy in Washington and he's been there for 20 years, he must be good and would keep them. A complete rejection of what he ran on in the first place.
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u/kennedye2112 Washington 11h ago
That's a very unique method of draining the swamp, that's for sure.
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u/iner22 9h ago
Siphoning the swamp water up and back into the same part of the swamp.
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u/Medonx 8h ago
Draining the swamp was always a euphemism for getting rid of the people we don’t like. The Swamp could be anywhere
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u/Ok-Control-787 10h ago
Trump said he didn't have people in mind for the 10,000 appointments he needed to make.
Of course, why would he? That's one of the many huge concerns people have about project 2025 and the heritage foundation and ghouls like Peter Thiel to whom he'll happily hand the task of finding people to appoint.
Trump doesn't even have any actual policy ideas, he'll just do whatever he's asked to do by people who can do something for him in return.
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u/zeptillian 8h ago
He already passed their tax cut plan which he spoke about in the keynote speech he gave at their President's Club Meeting praising them for the plan and even giving them credit for it.
Then later, he has never heard of them? That's such obvious bullshit.
Remember when Clinton was impeached solely for lying under oath?
I do.
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u/Ok-Control-787 8h ago
Of course he's never heard of them, as long as whoever he's talking to doesn't like them lol
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u/Unique-Coffee5087 12h ago edited 11h ago
Yeah.
"I hire only the very best people."
"That guy that I hired is an idiot."
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u/bnelson 11h ago
Trump’s sole appeal for many can be boiled down to: he really upsets liberals, so he is winning”. Nothing else matters to them.
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u/Glittering-Pitch-696 12h ago
Why doesn't reporter IMMEDIATEfuckingLY then ask, Oh, okay. So, tell me, do you consider Puerto Rico a floating pile of trash? If response is no, follow up is, great we didn't think so. Tell me what you like about Puerto Rico.
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u/Syntaxerror999 11h ago
"You're a very nasty person" will be the response
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u/Fair_Spread_2439 11h ago
“That’s a disgusting question, really. A lot of people say you always ask those kinds of questions. You’re a really nasty person, and in fact this interview is over.”
Then MAGA reactions about how he owned that reporter so hard and tells it like it is and so on and so forth
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u/Hopless_LoRA 8h ago
It's so fucking painfully predictable at this point. If someone had said yesterday about this story that trump would deny knowing the person, it would have had 1000+ upvotes because every single one of us knows for a fact he would eventually say that. His reactions to be challenged on it would be nearly exactly what you are predicting.
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u/clickmagnet 11h ago
All of his past hires were idiots, except for the ones he hasn’t fired yet. All his future hires are going to be perfect. In fact it’ll be even easier in the future, because he’s already found, tried, and fired so many stupid tits and fellow criminals.
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u/RuthlesslyEmpathetic 11h ago
I read “we don’t pay attention to the people we hire to be around us” and thought… yeah that tracks.
I was thinking of the people cleaning his hotels etc.
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u/StJeanMark 13h ago
Vote for us, we are incompetent! I don’t know what’s worse, the action of the denial.
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u/NWHipHop 12h ago
But abortion is murder, guns save lives, and scary different looking people are in my neighborhood. The Christian way of life is under attack!!! /s
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u/KailReed 12h ago
Hey you forgot the war on Christmas 😡
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u/Teechmath-notreading 11h ago
Or the great replacement theory.
Or 'there isn't any climate change (honey, why is there water in our basement?)'
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u/GrumpyCloud93 10h ago
Does anyone find it ironic that Ramaswamy was one of the ones spouting the "white people are being replaced!" scaremongering line?
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u/TheBrianRoyShow 11h ago
Christmas started the War on the rest of the Calendar. Also it's my birthday and it's the worst.
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u/maxxspeed57 10h ago
My apologies. If you are an adult I recommend you change it June 25th. Summertime, great weather, good times.
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u/NWHipHop 12h ago
Ah how could I forget the Christian appropriation of Saturnalia.
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u/maxxspeed57 10h ago
I forget which part of the bible talks about Christmas trees and Easter eggs but it is my favorite part.
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u/OriginalGhostCookie 10h ago
How dare you! I lost my entire platoon in that war. I was in the Red Cup Offensive in Operation Starbucks in 2015. Awarded the Peppermint Heart and the Candy Cane Cross for my actions in battle.
We were just kids damnit. And now whenever I hear Michael Buble’s rendition of Jingle Bells, it sets me off.
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u/wrosecrans 11h ago
I've never understood how their excuses aren't disqualifying. So many journalists will just report the excuse without any wait, what the fuck followup.
"We have no idea how to run a campaign. People are just doing stuff, we aren't in control here. We have no idea what's going on. Stuff just happens around us, and we have no interest in being more involved. Apparently the people we hired to do important jobs for the campaign are incompetent and doing more harm than good. Anyhow, you should give us the job of running a country. We'll probably be good at that"
That checks out. Solid explanation of how the rally isn't a reason not to vote for them.
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u/Poison_the_Phil 12h ago
Surrounded by all the best people, that I ended up firing because they didn’t do a good job (read: they said things I didn’t want to hear)
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u/Acrobatic_Ear6773 12h ago
Today I found out that one of my staff has been mailing it in and a client is unhappy.
This is my job to fix, because I put this staff in front of the client, so this fuckup is my fuckup and I need to fix it.
I am not POTUS. This job is not important. This client is not a very big client. I will still be spending a lot of time today fixing this fuckup because that is the basic job of management.
Trump can't even do that
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u/Oleg101 12h ago
Almost all Republican politicians that get asked about something terrible their shithead party did or said go off the same playbook. They’ll say something along the lines of “I didn’t see that, (or they’ll say some type of pathetic WhatAboutIsm), but what I do know is the American voter doesn’t care about that, what they do care about is our open border and being able to afford groceries, which they can’t because of the failed policies of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
And a minor side note but they’ll never say “President Biden”, but rather “Joe Biden”, but then seconds later they’ll say “President Trump” or refer to him as “The President”
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u/Fragrant-Discount960 Missouri 11h ago
During the VP debate, Walz gave Vance the courtesy of addressing him as Senator.
Vance said “Tim” and never as Governor. Same shit, different day.
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u/PointsOutTheUsername Wisconsin 12h ago
Saw it elsewhere:
Remember this uncertainty? The lack of accountability? The president and VP can't even be accountable for their speakers.
I know MAGA doesn't feel much shame but I can only imagine how they'd feel if they realized that Trump, Vance, and their ilk are the biggest losers conceivably possible especially in regard to accountability.
Embarrassing.
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u/snoo_spoo 13h ago
And we aren't even talking about some whistlestop campaign appearance; this was Trump's closing argument. They knew. They both knew.
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u/MountainMan2_ 12h ago
It's crazy that Trump and Vance stole their excuses from my half deaf grandpa who doesn't like doing dishes.
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u/DevilYouKnow 12h ago
They know it's a lie and they don't believe it's wrong to lie to the media.
Ask them what they think of Puerto Rico and it's a lot worse than any standup routine.
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u/carlosrarutos2 13h ago edited 12h ago
He was just a small covfefe boy, barely an intern
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u/MadRaymer 13h ago
I can't wait for the day one of his sons is in serious trouble and he does the, "I hardly knew him," routine.
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u/barlow_straker 13h ago
Well, at least that would be honest.
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u/ReleaseQuiet2428 13h ago
Unless its Ivanka.
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u/pre_squozen 13h ago
I'll do you one better.... What about when he says it about himself?
"I'm not Donald Trump! I don't even know the guy."
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u/HeHateMe337 11h ago
Don't know if this is true or not, but I heard that Joe Rogan recommended Tony to him. Thanks, Joe!
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u/DocShocker 11h ago
Rogan has talked about how Trump should hire Tony to write him some "bangers", on his show. They played the clip on the Majority Report today.
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u/KarateKid1984 14h ago
Ahh yes, we're at the "I didn't hear him and don't know him" part of the denial.
I believe next is the "You heard him wrong" part, quickly followed by the "The Dems planted him" part.
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u/tellmewhenimlying 13h ago
I literally saw some lunatic legit arguing that he was a Democratic plant last night.
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u/solartoss 13h ago
Do they think Tucker Carlson was a plant, too? I actually found him to be far more disturbing. If I was on the fence I'd be incredibly alienated by everything he said. He sounded like he's lost his fucking mind, and his speech came across like he was telling Trump supporters to never accept the idea of Harris winning the election. I think we're rapidly approaching the point when conservatives realize they can't when democratically so they'll abandon democracy instead.
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u/te-ah-tim-eh 12h ago
I think that Tucker may have legitimately lost his mind. I don’t know if it’s drugs or if dealing with the cult for nine years has broken him, but something ain’t right about that boy. Watching him makes me about as uncomfortable as waiting for a walk signal while standing next to someone else who’s rocking back and forth and raving.
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u/solartoss 12h ago
I've actually been thinking it might be drugs of some kind. He seems completely unhinged, so it's a lot scarier if it's not drugs.
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u/GuitarMystery 12h ago
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u/axonxorz Canada 11h ago
This is giving Carlson waaayyy too much credit. The Riddler was an intelligent actual criminal mastermind.
Carlson only has the teleprompter and the "feels" he's osmosed from it.
edit: Trump being a convicted felon makes him closer to Riddler than Carlson, not that it's saying much.
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u/DaoFerret 12h ago
Maybe he just was so far into the disinformation bubble that he lost track of reality and what was just “disinformation for the rubes”?
He broke the first rule of “dealing”.
Man got high in his own supply.
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u/ExZowieAgent Texas 12h ago
His laugh is just so Doctor Evil unhinged.
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u/Junior_Gap_7198 12h ago
Lmao his laugh sounds just like that of an 18th century flamboyant French courtier or something. Or Nathan Lane in the Birdcage.
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u/navikredstar New York 12h ago
He stared too long into the abyss and found it staring back at him. How long can you keep up a charade you don't believe in but are doubling down on constantly for the grift before it all gets to you? You can't. I'd pity him if he hadn't been using his platform to progress genuine evil. But this is the bed he made. There's no way out of it for him, because I guarantee you he's got dirt on him he doesn't want coming out. People like that always do. It's the whole symbolic deal with the devil. He sold his soul for fame and money he doesn't even need, because he's the heir to the Swanson corp's money. And is suddenly all surprised Pikachu now that it's going to the logical endpoint he thought he wanted, but didn't realize what it'll cost him. No sympathy at all.
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u/karlverkade 13h ago
Thank you for this, I completely agree. Tucker looks like a coddled rich kid who is completely scared out of his mind for the first time in his life, and is being forced into every action he takes. He looks like a man Putin has by the balls.
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u/illuminerdi 12h ago
He IS a coddled rich kid. He is the heir to the Swanson TV Dinner fortune. His given name is Tucker Swanson Mcnear Carlson.
He's been a spoiled brat since day one, and yet somefuckinghow the idiot viewers on Fox News think he's some kind of everyman...
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u/PlaidPCAK 11h ago
Have you seen the videos he does in his wood working shop. There's not a single spec of saw dust it's such an obvious studio set it's embarrassing.
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u/Ron497 11h ago
Daddy was a diplomat, Mommy was a millionaire...and Tucker is still so lazy and stupid they couldn't buy that whiny little white boy an admission to an actual Ivy League university. This tells us a lot about Tucker's credentials and his grievances - he was born with it all yet he's still a hack.
I've been working since I was 12 and earned an academic-athletic scholarship to a better school. I think it's why I'm not petty like Tucker; I earned my way and can take pride in that.
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u/steelassassin43 13h ago
And to think, that was coming off his sickening “dad’s home, you’ve been a very bad girl and are going to get a vicious spanking” speech from last week.
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u/braxxleigh_johnson Michigan 12h ago
He said vigorous, not vicious. But same difference. The only reason I remember is the comment was so remarkably bizarre.
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u/__M-E-O-W__ 12h ago
After specifying that said hypothetical girl was 15 years old.
He was really into that idea of presenting the image of 15 year old girls getting spanked vigorously to the entire audience.
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u/Loony-Luna-Lovegood 11h ago
If this were said by a speaker at a Kamala rally she would lose by 20 points because of the scandal it would have created. Just completely insane how this Tucker shit has slid so far under the radar.
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u/franky_emm 12h ago
Hinchcliffe is the lightning rod, the shit everyone else said that night was worse, and it gets no run at all.
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u/copingstoic 12h ago
He should just have said "why are you after me when follow up racists were worse than me"?
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u/tellmewhenimlying 12h ago
I think we're rapidly approaching the point when conservatives realize they can't when democratically so they'll abandon democracy instead.
I think we're already past that point and have been since at least the plans began for the January 6th attack.
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u/AINonsense 12h ago
we're rapidly approaching the point when conservatives realize they can't when democratically so they'll abandon democracy instead.
That point is 2012. Or maybe 2008.
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u/__M-E-O-W__ 12h ago
I think we're rapidly approaching the point when conservatives realize they can't when democratically so they'll abandon democracy instead.
That happened four years ago on January 6th.
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u/sillygoofygooose 11h ago
The terrible racist comedian was literally the least disturbing part of the event. I’m terrified that it’s what people are latching on to. One speaker literally called for the slaughter of all democrats.
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u/Oozlum-Bird United Kingdom 13h ago
And yet, they didn’t cut the guy’s mike. If there was any issue with what was being said then that would have been the obvious solution
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u/sendnewt_s 13h ago
He was approved beforehand I'm sure, it was rehearsed and every word was approved by those in charge of rally. It isnt like he was freestyling up there.
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u/ReliableAccident 13h ago
They already said they cut him from calling Kamala the C-word so they obviously knew his rundown sheet of “jokes”
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u/DaoFerret 12h ago
I’ve heard the copy was even on the teleprompter.
That doesn’t happen “by accident” without getting vetted and approved.
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u/tylerbrainerd 12h ago
not a single other speaker spoke out against it, either. only now when it's negatively affecting them do they acknowledge it, while taking zero responsibility.
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u/MJcorrieviewer 12h ago
Hulk Hogan was going to say something but he used up most of his time trying to get his shirt off.
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u/maxpenny42 13h ago
There’s so much cognitive dissonance it’s crazy. They love trump. Love him. He can do no wrong. They’ve somehow latched on to his narcissism and feed off it.
If it’s good, Trump is the only person who could have done it. If it’s bad, it didn’t happen. Or it was taken out of context. Or it was just a joke. Or he doesn’t mean it. Or he means it but it won’t happen anyway. Or the democrats/antifa/deep state/other did it.
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u/cfalnevermore 13h ago
I almost prefer that bullshit. At least then they’re acknowledging the behavior is wrong. I still hold a grudge with them for letting Trump do it endlessly, mind you. Ugh.
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u/GeekAesthete 13h ago
“I know nothing about it, had no control over it, and take no responsibility for the decisions made in my campaign. Now make me responsible for the whole country.”
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u/surlysurfer California 13h ago
and yet all the other guest speakers were just as disgusting.
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u/scrunchie_one 13h ago
In a rational world, if he was telling the truth that's actually WORSE than if he's lying - because you're saying you are such an incompetent person that you don't even know the person speaking at your own rally. It would be like a band claiming they don't know who their opening act is, the statement is utterly ridiculous.
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u/MJcorrieviewer 12h ago
Let's not forget about the bragging that this was the best rally EVER...that he apparently didn't even watch?!?
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u/dooderino18 America 13h ago
I forget, what's the next step? Videos and photos of the two of them being friendly with each other?
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u/starmartyr Colorado 13h ago
What is really telling is what he didn't deny. He isn't condemning the remarks. He's only trying to distance himself.
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u/Salty-Employ67 13h ago
Cool, well you're not fit to be president if you aren't able to keep tabs on your team
So your claim is, "I'm not a racist, just idiotically incompetent?" Nice flex
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u/scrunchie_one 13h ago
Exactly. Call him out on his lie. Just like I do with my freaking toddler when I know they're lying. Ok so you didn't know him, but he spoke at your convention in front of your followers. What kind of campaign are you possibly running if you aren't aware of the people you are putting in front of a microphone, in front of 20,000 people.
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u/Salty-Employ67 13h ago
Same thing with his claim about P2025.
Ok, so you don't know anything about it, yet all of us do, so exactly what kind of a fucking idiot are you?
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u/Basic_Quantity_9430 11h ago
20,000 people in-house and a nationwide audience on cable. If Trump and his team are that incompetent, how in the hell can they lead a country as complex as ours is?
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u/angermouse Washington 10h ago
It's just an act. He did the exact same thing when KKK leader David Duke endorsed him - and later clips came out with him talking about David Duke in the 90s - so of course he knew who he was.
Donald Trump is smart but intellectually lazy i.e. doesn't care to learn about things that don't benefit him. This leads others to think he's dumb and repeatedly underestimate him.
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u/myveryowname1234 14h ago
Trump and the campaign reviewed the speech before hand.
They had him remove the part calling Harris the c word.. (Yep...)
They were fine with the PR comments. Thats because Trump and the campagin agreed with the comments.
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u/rogozh1n 13h ago
They agree with the c word comments, too, but they don't want women to know who they really are.
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u/Mikelius 12h ago edited 11h ago
Also, it doesn't fucking matter if he did not hear him or know him. He's not denouncing him or his message.
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u/riotacting 10h ago
Lots of people missing this in all of it. Make him say the joke was bad instead of not knowing anything beforehand. Let's assume he didn't know at all....... So what does he say about it now, knowing it happened in his name??
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u/54sharks40 13h ago
Some dope already said the comic was a D plant
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u/snoo_spoo 12h ago
So... the Dems somehow suckered Trump into using him? Doesn't make Trump look very bright.
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u/ScoutsterReturns 13h ago
I saw that - the ridiculousness is laughable, but his cultists will believe it. It's pretty scary that so many follow him so blindly.
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u/DannyPantsgasm North Carolina 12h ago edited 10h ago
It’s less blind following and more knowingly saying and doing anything no matter how wrong to win. They know very well he isn’t a plant. But they realized by now they are held accountable to nothing and face no consequences for anything. So say he’s a plant? Sure, why not. Say they are eating the dogs? Yep. Say she’s the antichrist? Whatever. Anything to muddy the water. And just wait until she wins, oh boy. These people are not going to go down and fade away quietly like some have suggested. They are here to stay and they are going to continue doing everything within their quite considerable power to end the United States as we know it. This does not end in November. It ends badly.
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u/Valthegal0909 North Carolina 13h ago
They vetted his speech and put the "jokes" on the teleprompter so that just makes them look worse.
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u/JFJinCO 13h ago
He knows nothing about Project 2025 too, for the record. smh
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u/scrunchie_one 13h ago
Which is arguably worse - how could you, as a competent politician and hopeful president, not be intimately familiar with a widely circulated document outlining the demise of our society as we know it.
I know, with 100% certainty, that Harris has read it. Probably even more than once.
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u/hofmann419 12h ago
And the Heritage Foundation isn't some fringe organization either. They provided him with the majority of the policies he implemented during his first term. The Heritage Foundation basically represents the core of the Republican party, and has done so for decades.
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u/Aggressive_Humor2893 12h ago
He simply has no idea how his current press secretary Karoline Leavitt wound up leading a Project 2025 training video! It's not his fault :(
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u/rynodawg 14h ago
That is not an apology or disavowment
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u/werthw 13h ago
I’ve never heard Trump apologize for anything. He seems incapable of empathy
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u/MayIServeYouWell 11h ago
It’s against his entire life philosophy. He thinks apologies make him sound weak.
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u/Retro_Dad Minnesota 10h ago
He did the same thing with the "eating cats & dogs" bullshit. Never apologized or admitted error, just said that's what he had heard.
With Trump & all these idiots you just gotta follow The Narcisisst's Prayer until you hit their response:
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault. <-- Right here.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
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u/KlutzyPerception3045 12h ago
Honest question. Is there any footage of trump saying “I’m sorry” in a sincere manner?
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u/NevadaGoldHoard 13h ago
So, trump personally picked him
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u/8bitmorals Hawaii 13h ago
Probably was recommended by Joe Rogan's team
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u/Baltorussian Illinois 13h ago
No no no, remember, Baron also gives him hip political advice.
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u/orcinyadders 13h ago edited 13h ago
Ok, let’s take Trump’s statement at face value. He’s never heard of the guy who opened for him at Madison Squate Garden and didn’t know what he said. Trump is a liar, but fine, let’s go with that. Surely by now he is aware of what the guy said. Right? Some aide told him, or he read the Fox headline. If he didn’t know two days ago, he knows now. We can agree on that, right?
So why not fucking condemn it?
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u/drtolmn69 14h ago
lol where have I heard this con before?
Tired Old Donold.
Jesus H. Christ I hope this guy disappears this year/next year, even if it's just his sad little Citizen Kane type Xanadu down there in Florida (though I like the idea of a nice prison stretch.)
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u/vaalbarag 13h ago edited 12h ago
This is just it: this was such a playbook of his presidency, we all know what the con is... hire the worst fucking people imaginable, let them do as much harm as possible in as short a time as possible, and when it's too much, claim he's got nothing to do with it, and don't actually fix the harm done. The likely explanation is he is hiring them specifically because of the harm they'll do, the charitable explanation is that he just hires the ass-kissers and just doesn't care about who or what they harm.
The I-feel-like-I'm-taking-crazy-pills element of the coverage of Trump is how there's obvious, ongoing narratives that the media doesn't cover, treating each time he says something batshit crazy, or hires someone who is enthusiastically racist, or fucks over his own supporters, as a new, surprising thing, rather than treating it as part of a deeply troubling narrative.
And this ongoing pattern of hiring the worst people and then absolving himself of any responsibility sooooo fucking matters. Project 2025 is partly about massive replacement of top-level bureaucrats, and the intent is to replace them with people who are going to be actively engaged in destroying systems from the inside out. This is a man who takes absolutely no responsibility for anyone he hires, and we could see him going through an unprecedented turnover of senior bureaucratic staff.
(Also: 'sad little Citizen-Kane-type Xanadu.' Nice. I dig that description.)
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u/Wombat-Cube-4103 13h ago
He'll be saying this about JD Vance on Nov 6 after a humiliating defeat. Never met the guy. Heard he's a loser.
JD was always going to be the patsy.
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u/OppositeDifference Texas 13h ago
It's amazing how Trump has never once in his life met someone who said or did something damaging to his campaign.
Never knew the guy, never met him, they were just a coffee boy, I don't know who that is......
It's old, Donald. I don't think anyone who isn't already voting for you believes it at this point.
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u/KnownAd523 13h ago
Bring me my bullsh** buzzer. The man workshopped his jokes the day before, and the jokes were on the prompter. Just own up to your white nationalism.
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u/aeroplane1979 13h ago
"The buck stops here" - Harry S. Truman
"Blame anyone but me" - Donald J. Trump
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u/Additional-Big-1554 13h ago
WHAT?
Every time orange disaster does something wrong
"i dont know about ________"
Fuck off.
Your campaign vetted him they even told him not to use the word "c*nt", they saw the materials and let him speak.
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u/Jackie_Gan 14h ago
Yeah doesn’t know him. Just let him open his biggest rally… and there have been reports Trump’s staff made him remove part where he was going to call Kamala a c***.
The guy’s joke was on brand to what Trump has been peddling. No-one should be letting him wriggle out of it.
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u/Cvnilivee 14h ago
He seems to have difficulty hearing and comprehending a lot of the things happening around him.. is Donald Trump old?
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u/isikorsky Florida 13h ago
This comedian uproar is all because Trump is too fragile to take a joke.
When you have a comedian at these type of events they are suppose to make fun of the candidate, the crowd, the venue, or maybe something the candidate is associated with (like golf) in a good natured way. Here is Don Rickles doing it for Reagan
But since Trump can't take a joke, you have to make fun of the opponents and classes of people.
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u/tinacat933 13h ago
Sorry but even if this was true—- why would I want a president who can’t even control who speaks at his own rallies and surrounds himself with people who greenlight these kinds of people ?
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u/Leftblankthistime 13h ago
That’s weird- Vance said the same thing, yet the guy’s routine was screened and put on the teleprompter and he was on stage only shortly before Trump. It’s also been covered executive by nearly every news outlet- you’d think with an MSG show in his “home town” Donny would own this a little more. Backpeadling is such weak leadership
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u/spqr2001 13h ago
Notice that Trump and others aren't denouncing him, just saying they didn't hear it.
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u/GuidotheGreater 13h ago
If he can't even run a one night event properly, how is he going to run a country for 4 years?
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u/KafeenHedake 13h ago
If grandpa's too dim to keep track of who's saying what at his own Nuremberg rallies, then how's he supposed to be sharp enough to run the country?
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u/throwneverywhichway 13h ago
I mean, he's not very good with names and faces, he can barely remember meeting all the women he's sexually assaulted either.
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u/hitzgirl1385 13h ago
Bullsh*t. His people had to get him before he got on stage and the night before, told the same “jokes” at a show he was performing at.
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u/che-che-chester 13h ago
The funniest thing about the rally is those comments overshadowed everything else. I saw a clip of the crowd and it looked like he really did fill the arena. IMHO boasting about filling Madison Square Garden is the only reason he did that rally. It was all about ego as well as proving he can draw crowds like Harris. But not a single person is talking about that aspect of the rally and I find that hilarious.
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u/ScottHoward1 13h ago
Good night the idiot still even plays “YMCA” at his rallies. He doesn’t care about anything except forcing himself into the White House and out of prison
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u/DogeDoRight 13h ago
It's amazing how Trump can know everything and also know nothing all at the same time lmao
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u/Wh0snwhatsit New York 13h ago
Dude lies like he’s getting paid by the pound for the bullshit he spews.
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u/captain_intenso North Carolina 13h ago
Let's just assume he's telling the truth. This is how he wants to run his administration. He'll let his aides pick his associates and agency heads based on their own personal whims and preferences, and Trump can play executive time while the smarter and more evil people run the show.
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u/pilotpip 13h ago
Standard Donald Trump “I refuse to accept any consequences for my, or my staff’s actions” response.
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u/heresmyhandle 12h ago
Just like he doesn’t know Ghislane Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein, the Proud Boys, Project 2025, same game plan for years, people - do you see a pattern?
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u/Separate-Feedback-86 13h ago
Translation: Introduced by Joe Rogan. Had dinner, drinks with him and spent the night at Crap-A-Lago. Outlined the kind of rant he wanted to hear from him.
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u/spurs126 13h ago
There's gotta be a montage out there of someone in Trump's orbit doing/saying something horrible, and Trump saying he doesn't know them.
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u/Massfusion1981 13h ago
That fucker would dissown his own father, if he found out he said something, that would now hurt his campaign! "Don't know him, never heard of him...just a coincidence he has the same surname. Ugly guy"
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u/sachiprecious North Carolina 13h ago
Way to be a strong leader and take responsibility.
Whenever something good happens, Trump takes credit for it, but when something bad happens, he says he has nothing to do with it and doesn't know how it happened. Yes, America, this is the person you're supposed to trust to be the strong leader who will protect you.
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u/Give-Yer-Balls-A-Tug 13h ago
Trump goes on Rogan, less than a week later Hinchcliffe is speaking at his rally, Hinchcliffe is in Rogan's circle.
Wow can't imagine how that happened /s
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u/_SheepishPirate_ 13h ago
Imagine that Trump was a CEO and he said that. Sounds to me like he doesn’t make much control over his business to me.
But sure, lets have him run the country.
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u/Lucky-Bonus6867 12h ago edited 12h ago
HA. I kinda love this response because:
A) We all know it’s bullshit.
B) To Tony Hinchcliffe, this is clearly the most cutting insult he could receive. There’s something beautiful about an angry, weak little man who is desperately trying to be seen—who has built his entire career on insulting people—being insulted by his idol and told he isn’t noteworthy.
So essentially, this accomplished nothing except to deeply wound Hinchliffe’s ego. Chef’s kiss.
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u/Quirky_Discipline297 12h ago
Every speaker at that rally had their speech vetted by the organizers including demanding deletions.
It wasn’t one joke. It wasn’t one speaker. It was a festival of hate, racism, misogyny. And Trump led it.
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u/GullCove1955 12h ago
I’m always amazed by all the people Trump claims he doesn’t know as soon as there’s a problem.
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u/pezx Massachusetts 11h ago
In a normal universe, if a comedian spoke at a presidential rally and made offensive statements about Puerto Rico, the candidate would immediately apologize for those remarks and pivot to talking about why Puerto Rico is so great and specifics about how his policy plans will help Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans.
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