Dear Mitch McConnell, Trump Says to Hell with Your Scripted Speech Idea

After giving two speeches with teleprompters this week, Trump returned to his unscripted style in a rally in Richmond, Virginia on Friday. In a barely one-third-full arena, he repeatedly called Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas”, attacked former rival Jeb Bush and complained “New York City is going with the Norwegian form of education”.

After a week where Trump strained to appear more presidential, it all went out the window in a vintage performance, which even featured a handful of protesters being arrested outside the event.

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[He spoke] jerkily from a teleprompter at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s annual summit in Washington earlier in the day. There, Trump tried to appeal to a conservative bloc of voters who have looked skeptically at the New York billionaire. Trump insisted “we will protect and defend Christian Americans” and boasted about how, in the Republican presidential primary, he won with evangelicals and “religion generally speaking”.

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While Trump has been trying [to] downplay his [racist] comments, saying earlier on Friday “freedom of any kind means no one should be judged by their race or their color or the color of their skin”, he reopened the controversy by repeatedly calling Warren “Pocahontas” in an attempt to insult her for saying that she has Native American heritage. The epithet was accompanied by Indian war whoops from the crowd. Several minutes afterwards, Trump then insisted he was “the least racist person”.

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He spent the first five minutes bragging about his vineyard in the Old Dominion and then went on to deliver a meandering account of his win in the Republican presidential primary. It featured a long detour about his relationship with legendary Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight as well as his pledge to have a “winner’s evening” at the Republican National Convention filled with star athletes.

  Guardian

Can't wait to see the spectacular that will be the GOP nominating convention this year.

Trump, who has vocally tried to appeal to Bernie Sanders supporters, probably set his efforts back by referring to the Vermont senator yet again as “Crazy Bernie”. He also yet again expressed his confidence that he can win California in a general election, relating a conversation with an unnamed friend who told him “every liberal in Los Angeles will vote for you”.

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[He] also returned to familiar themes with his pledge to build a wall on the Mexican border [...] “It’s going to be a very beautiful wall, as beautiful as a wall can be”.

Who's crazy?

Seriously, GOP elites, have you never heard that you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear? Geez, you'd think you would even know by experience after the Sarah Palin fiasco.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.