Trump's Campaign Goes Off the Rails with 3 Weeks to Go

Trump Breaks Down Onstage

Is Donald Trump well enough to serve as president?

The election is in three weeks, and Pennsylvania is a must-win state for both Trump and Kamala Harris, but during a rally [Monday] night in Montgomery County, northwest of Philadelphia, Trump got bored with the event, billed as a "town hall," and just played music for almost 40 minutes, scowling, smirking, and swaying onstage. Trump is no stranger to surreal moments, yet this was one of the oddest of his political career.

The event began normally enough, at least by Trump standards, but, after two interruptions for apparent medical emergencies in the audience, Trump lost interest. "Let's just listen to music. Who the hell wants to hear questions?" he said.

He eventually pivoted for good to a playlist of his favorite songs: "Hallelujah," "Rich Men North of Richmond," "Nothing Compares 2 U," Elvis's rendition of "Dixie." At one point, he asked his staff to play Pavarotti and display the immigration chart that he was about to discuss when an assassin tried to kill him this summer.

To watch the event is to see signs of someone having a breakdown. Like Joe Biden's disastrous debate against Trump in June, when the president's fumbling performance and struggle to get sentences out made it impossible to believe he was up to the task of serving for four years, Trump's rally last night would force any reasonable person to conclude that he is not up to the grueling task of leading the world's greatest nation, handling economic crises, or dealing with foreign adversaries.

But Trump's musical selections sometimes reveal more than his words or his aides do. During the 2016 campaign, his choice of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" as exit music seemed like a pointed message to his political adversaries and the nation. Last night, he might have been sending a pointed message to himself, with the help of an Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman hit: "It's time to say goodbye."

Now you know the rest of the story.

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That is NOT the rest of the story, it's another lame deflection by Visiturd who obviously can't comprehend written word above the level Trump speaks it.

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The event began normally enough, at least by Trump standards, but, after two interruptions for apparent medical emergencies in the audience, Trump lost interest. "Let's just listen to music. Who the hell wants to hear questions?" he said.

Yeah, people always attend town halls to listen to the playlist of candidates instead of having their own pertinent questions answered.

I don't know who's more touched in the head, Trump or Visiturd trying to pawn off his stupidity upon unsuspecting readers.

Don't blame me because you were misled (again) by this lying Huffpost hit piece.

The piece I quoted is from The Atlantic, not HuffPost. You'd know that if you could read. Keep coming back and proving how illiterate you are. It's great comedy. And of course you also ignored what I stated in the very first post.

I suggest everyone look up both(videos) and just look and listen. That's it. Do yourself a favor if you haven't seen them.

So the words written about both aren't needed if one follows the simple advice to view both and make up your own mind about what you're seeing, not mine, and certainly not your brain-impaired versions.

No one needs your insipid gaslighting around here Visiturd. Why don't you go play in traffic and let the adults discuss actual facts instead of fantasy untethered to reality.

What a rube.

and your copy paste of text is (as usual) uncredited.

Are you really that HTML ignorant? The underlined title is a hyperlink directly to the source. I always link to source material.

I'm going to stop replying to you. You simply don't have the intelligence to converse here.

I always link to source material.*

*Unless the copy is from the linked article to begin with and that usually applies to the first post or direct inferences back to the article's content in subsequent posts.

I can't view the Atlantic article without signing up.

You don't read that which is posted, so why should I care about your limitations?

Based on available evidence you were either fooled and spreading misinformation

Based on all evidence, you're either a fool, a charlatan, an imbecile, a troll, or all of the above.

I've never gaslighted on any topic at any time, ever. I'm all about the truth here on Earth 1, not the MAGAverse that you inhabit with your tinfoil hat and inability to access some of the most important commentators and historians of our time.

Trump and his minions cannot tell the truth about anything which is why they recoil at being fact checked in real time by those who know the truth and will not let lies stand unopposed.

That is precisely how I roll. My opinions can be as wrong as the next person, but my eyes see clearly. Niccole Wallace played the entire 39 minutes of Trump's musical interlude yesterday on her show that leaves no doubt about the circumstances surrounding him eschewing taking questions from those patiently waiting and instead calling for music to be played while he swayed and jabbed his arms to YMCA, perhaps the gayest song in the history of popular music - a song celebrating "young men" going to and hooking up at the YMCA, a place where women were not allowed to be in the late 70s when the song came out. Many YMCA's had male residences connected to them as a lower cost alternative to hotels and motels for men seeking overnight accomodations. Gay men of the day knew exactly what the song alluded to and celebrated it accordingly.

No one denied that Trump halted his show so that the two audience members could be treated individually as they collapsed from the sheer heat of the venue. But his sing- and dance-along occurred after the people were cared for - and yes again, Ave Maria was played as one person was being looked after. But that was not the case with the other songs and his refusal to actually give the audience what they came there for: Answers to the normal questions town halls are conducted for the candidate to address.

What a sad waste of your life. Couldn't you be doing something more productive with your time? In other words, be better.

The self-retorting retort strikes again. How can someone be so blinded in projection not to understand every accusation they level is an indictment upon their own lack of contributing anything worthwhile and non-mendacious whatsoever?