I don't think we should read too much into this.

Trump was angry because the word leaked out that he'd been shuffled off to the bunker along with the women and children. It's not the first time a president has been moved to the bunker for safety reasons.

Trump, however, (fragile as he is) saw it as an affront to his masculinity, which is already non-existent. Plus he's been called a bone-spur coward like forever.

Granted this hastily arranged "personal appearance" (like most of his phony put up jobs) convinced nobody of anything, least of all any genuine sincerity. For a "showman" that performance was awful. A cardboard cutout would have looked better.

CBOB

"So think about this for a minute in the context of America. Does anyone really believe a show of force in every city in America is the way to go? How much more cracking down will do the trick to make people "calm down" and "stop being mad" about injustice and inequality?
#68 | POSTED BY CBOB

It doesn't have to be "every city." As Dictator he only has to make one or two cities a gruesome example of what will happen to the others.

BTW, he's been taking lessons from Russia and Saudi Arabia.

That doesn't make people calm down. It just makes them shut up about it.

But I do agree with you. America would be a hard nut to crack. Just not impossible.

Trump went to the bunker . . . with the women and children.

AU

I don't call that a fair comparison.

And also, didn't you notice how many were wearing those cheapo blue things. All they had was a false sense of security in a big crowd like that with people screaming all around them. The louder the voice the stronger the spittle.

AU

I didn't see anybody in those crowds give a damn about COVID-19 either.

IMO, they were killing themselves and who knows how many others.

RIGHT/TRITE

"Yep... Trumplethinskin grasping at straws... sad.

Well he "grasped" the Bible yesterday and lost the evangelical vote he thought he had in the bag. The Scriptures clearly say "NO PHOTO-OPS. "

But the dummy had to do it anyway.

Yesterday I watch a local protest march here in Ft. Lauderdale and they were blocking a major thoroughfare that is commonly used by emergency vehicles, forcing ambulances and firetrucks to GPS a longer more circuitous route to where they were called to go.

Maybe somebody could explain to me how that solves a social injustice problem.

AU

I see the pattern. And I certainly don't mean to say that there's not a certain amount of injustice in the justice system, mostly directed toward black people. But then I see who is committing all the looting, not to mention the wanton destruction of property, and I have to wonder . . . where is the justice for those victims.

We've watched so many cities burned, so many people die, so much meaningless destruction . . . and the system never changes.

It just seems that there's a better way.

I have a hard time sympathizing with the the injustice claimed by black people when I see who is doing all the looting and property destruction.

I watched a black kid about 13-14 years old caught on camera randomly smashing car windows with a crowbar. What kind of justice was he seeking?

Erasing Obama is how Trump plans to re-writ history to be all about him.

Of course, he could be right. When history writes about the uprising in America it could be all about him ~~ "Trump The Incompetent" and a failed administration.

TFD @ #23

"Does he not even see the irony of his own words?:

1) Trump is a narcissist.

1a) ~ He can't see anything except the effect this is having on his re~election.

2) Trump is a sociopath.

2a) ~~ He can't feel anything but his own pain.

3) Trump is an arrested adult (a spoiled brat).

3a ~~ He doesn't recognize anything but his own entitlements.

The less you expect of Trump the less disappointed you'll be. If anybody thinks the country deserves better, they know how to make it happen on November 3rd.

WHO (no pun intended) hasn't Trump blamed?

BRUCE

I get what you saying but the point is, Trump is still trying to create a false impression to steal some black votes from Biden. It's a Hail Mary.

LAMP

"I just saw on newsy that Pres Trump wants also to invite Russia, India, Australia and India."

He'll pull some kind of oneupmanship to try and make Merkel look petty. Then he'll follow up by saying it was the most tremendous summit the world has ever known.

Trump has to make some kind of a splash. It's 156 days to November 3rd and daylights ah burnin'.

LAMP

"Am I the only one who sees this inherent contradiction

No. It's been clear all along that Trump has never included black people in his MAGA. Nor brown people (immigrants) either.

He's saying "MAGA loves the black people" now because he thinks black people aren't intelligent enough to remember how much he hates them because they're predominately Democrats.

"Donald Trump has said he will postpone"

Postpone is CYA code for . . . . "it was my decision. " ~~ LOL

OCU @ #2

"which will NOT sit well with Trump nor his white evangelical supporters, "

It doesn't matter at this stage. Trump intends to reduce the U.S. Supreme Court to a useless squawk box in his second term. Dictators don't need no second guessers.

Normal sane people are not so detached from the consequences of their own action.

Normal sane people would first try to rebuild the bridges they destroyed.

Trump's not normal or sane.

So . . . No RSVP for him.

JPW

"now he's gonna act like he didn't want to be part of the club to begin with.

It looks like it's quite the other way around.

Maybe Trump can find some Dictators to attend ~~ as long as they promise to bring gifts.

BRUCE @ #6

" He should be ostracized."

I think that's the whole message, in total ~~ and it's not even in diplomatic code. ~~ LOL

This may be the exact transition Trump is hoping for in his postpartum vision of America.

Dictators need a majority of their subjects to be poor, sick, homeless, defenseless, cold and starving. They're much easier to control that way.

Of course those who want to roll the dice on a second term for Trump aren't going to be happy when they find out they're no longer useful to a man to whom loyalty is a one way street.

LOL ~ This is going to sting Trump something awful. He thrives on approval.

Maybe there's 11 dictators he can invite instead.

Trump's been CYA-ing since last November.

Not only that but in February he sold 18 tons of PPEs to China straight out of our Nation Strategic Stockpile and then turned around and stole 9 million masks from the Veterans Administration hospitals.

If ever a bum needs kicked to the curb (literally) on a cold winter day in November, he's the one.

Yes, literally. Grab him by the scuff of the neck, frog march him through the snow, open the gate to Pennsylvania Avenue and give him a swift kick in the butt.

Didn't anybody tell Radcliffe what is job was?

AU

"Trump has always been paranoid, hasn't he? "

Always? At least since we've known him.

The only connection between Trump and 29,000,000 of anything is what's in it for him and that's usually money (the center of his universe).

But since a second wave of Corona-19 is predicted to happen this fall and his re-election is on thin ice, he needs some last minute drama that makes him look like a Knight in shinning armor. Trump to the rescue, so to speak.

Efficacy isn't his problem. Getting over the November 3rd hump is.