Sunday, July 4, 2021

The Trump Circus

Trump’s second post-presidential “Save America!” rally was held at fairgrounds in Sarasota, [Florida, on July 3].

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The new circus came to town with a man playing guitar and singing “You can stick your poisoned vaccine up your ass”; a Trump impersonator in baggy suit, red tie, blond wig and orange makeup prancing across the field; a 10ft-plus Trump statue with giant hands outstretched; a man in a “Trump 2024” cap and Confederate vest; an eight-year-old Black boy wearing a t-shirt that said: “Trump won.”

But it only became the greatest show on earth when a small plane, presumably belonging to a Biden voter, circled overhead with the words “Loser-Palooza’ scrolling in lights underneath its wings.

  Guardian
It's a show.
There was food, fireworks and flags that snarled: “Fuck Biden and fuck you for voting for him!” Warm-up acts including Matt Gaetz, a Florida congressman under investigation over alleged sex trafficking, and Trump’s son Don Jr who said of the Manhattan DA’s case: “The political persecution will continue because we are no different from Russia, we are no different from the mullahs in Iran.”
He probably should have specified who he meant by "we".
Trump [Sr.] complained that New York prosecutors did not go after a single financial firm after the 2007-08 financial crisis and did not target Democrat Hillary Clinton or Biden’s son Hunter. “They leave Democrats alone, no matter how bad they are, but they mobilise every power of government to come after me, my family, my wonderful employees and my company solely because of politics... The harder I fight for you, the harder they come after me.”

He went on to suggest that charges against Weisselberg related to not paying taxes on a company car and an apartment that eased his commute were trivial. He also claimed ignorance as to whether Weisselberg did anything wrong with regard to taxes on his grandchildren’s private education [...] .”

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