The More Things Change, The More Trump Campaign Wants To Go Back To 2016
The More Things Change, The More Trump Campaign Wants To Go Back To 2016
It's your post-Labor Day Sunday Show Rundown!
The Trump campaign has been in a bit of a panic as of late.
For every good move the Harris campaign made, like picking Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her VP, the Trump campaign has made mistakes like allowing JD Vance try ordering donuts like a real human boy.
But don’t worry: The Sunday shows were full of the best Trump surrogates to steer the Trump ship around!
‘Fox News Sunday’
Remember Corey Lewandowski? If you can’t be bothered, he was a 2016 Trump campaign adviser who was fired after being accusations of assaulting a conservative female reporter (the charges were dropped), hired later by a Trump PAC and fired after allegations of being a sex pest. Somewhere in there he was also a CNN contributor and allegedly had an affair with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. He’s just been rehired as a Trump campaign adviser.
“Fox News Sunday” invited Lewandowski to explain how Trump plans to reverse his bad momentum.
LEWANDOWSKI: Well, no changes at the top. […] no changes at the top, but what we have seen from Donald Trump and what I’ve always recommended is his ability to get in front of the American people.
Great strategy. Let’s check out how that’s going on another Fox News show!
TRUMP: Who ever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election where you have every right to do it?
Yes, keep having Donald confess to crimes on national TV. Very good strategy! Quite the gambit, sir.
Lewandowski ended the interview on a disgusting tangent about blue states “murdering their babies” so stupid that even host Shannon Bream barely pushed back. Truly, a guy like Lewandowski lecturing women about morality is peak MAGA.
Tom Cotton on ‘Meet The Press’
When Kristen Welker asked Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton about Trump’s disrespectful stunt at Arlington Cemetery last week in which somehow a female guard ended up getting pushed and soldiers’ graves were used for photo ops, He tried to blame the Biden-Harris administration.
COTTON: Gold Star families, whose children died because of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's incompetence, invited him to the cemetery. […] They wanted to take those photos. You know who the families also invited? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Where were they? Joe Biden was sitting at a beach. Kamala Harris was sitting at her mansion in Washington, DC. […] But she hasn't. She never has spoken to them or taken a meeting with them.
There was no Arlington “event” that Biden or harris “declined” to attend. Fox News, Tom Cotton, and all Republicans are lying.
It’s also a lie that the Biden administration hasn’t met with these Gold Star families, as Welker pointed out:
WELKER: Well, they – they did meet with them during the dignified […] transfer […] They were with them at the dignified transfer.
When the lying about Harris’s or Biden’s “absence” didn’t work, Cotton decided to blame the New York Times for other Gold Star families calling out Trump’s dishonorable stunt.
COTTON: Frankly, I think it's pretty disappointing that the New York Times went and found a family whose headstone was featured in that, in that photograph of another Gold Star family and then went to them to try to embarrass the Gold Star families who wanted President Trump there.
Cotton should stop blaming everyone else when this could have been avoided if Trump had any respect for veterans and fallen soldiers in general.
Speaking of disrespect, Cotton then tried to disrespect the intelligence of voters, and of Welker, by pretending Republicans suddenly care about reproductive rights, like IVF, after Trump suddenly proposed for it to be fully covered. It didn’t go well.
COTTON: Well, all Republicans, to my knowledge, support IVF in the Congress. […]
WELKER: Well, two months ago you voted against a Senate bill that would've protected and expanded IVF access, and it would've mandated that some coverage was covered by health insurance plans. If that bill came back to the floor, would you now support it?
Cotton then blamed Dems and Senator Chuck Schumer for making him vote against the thing he supposedly supports. I’m sure that there is another Republican senator willing to support this IVF plan, though …
ABC’s ‘This Week’
South Carolina GOP Senator Lindsey Graham appeared to contradict Tom Cotton to Jonathan Karl on a different network!
GRAHAM: Maybe we should have a means-tested tax credit for people using IVF and other treatments to become pregnant. I would support a tax credit, means tested […]
KARL: But you wouldn’t support this idea of mandating insurance companies to cover this, would you? I mean you’ve already voted against it.
GRAHAM: No. No, I would, because there’s no end to that. Yes, there’s no end to that. I think a tax credit for children makes sense, means tested.
The GOP is “not against IVF” but will vote against it. Then they will “fully cover IVF treatments,” but now maybe it will be a tax credit or means-tested.
At this rate, Republicans will just give Americans a $10 Visa gift card to go towards their IVF treatments.
‘Face The Nation’
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy summarizerd the problem with the GOP’s IVF talking points quite nicely on “Face The Nation”:
HEALEY: So, you know, I don't think Donald Trump can spell IVF, let alone understand what it means, because his own Project 2025, remember, which establishes a fetal personhood, would undermine and take away IVF treatment. […] So don't believe Donald Trump when it comes to women's health, women's reproductive freedom, and Americans' access to health care.
He doesn't believe in or support any of it.
Perfect. No notes.
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Ta, MM. As I've said before, I'm glad this is your job and not mine.
"the Trump campaign has made mistakes like allowing JD Vance try ordering donuts like a real human boy."
The first mistake regarding the Hillbilly was selecting him to be the New GOP VPOTUS candidate. Most campaigns have chosen a running mate with at least some look towards balancing the ticket. But nooooo; the RINOs felt that the best choice for the Fulvous Flatulence was a mini-me who sits just below the Amber Ardipithecus ramidus on the vile/disgusting scale. The sole criterion, at least as I can tell, was someone who would proudly bear the Mango Malignancy's and the MAGA banners into the future... oh, and also someone who won't steal the spotlight from the Goldenrod Grotesqueness. Oh,
and to function as an attack lapdog biting at the ankles of those standing in opposition to his guru and mentor. Vance is every bit as stiff as Pinocchio, who also dreamt of becoming a real boy. (Speaking of Pinocchio, I have come to the conclusion that the denizens of the New GOP are reverse Pinocchios whose noses grow every time they tell the truth.)
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"but what we have seen from Donald Trump and what I’ve always recommended is his ability to get in front of the American people"
...and turn off anyone not already in the Sandstone Snowflake's tent; a tent that is shrinking as more and more fence-sitting and moderate Repubs are jumping ship because of the MAGA oberster Fuhrer's antics and his insistence that he would be a benevolent authoritarian, while his actions speak considerably louder than his typical word salads. His mask is slipping and the ugly orange face behind it is showing his contempt for all things American... unless of course if whatever is considered traditional will benefit him personally.
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"Truly, a guy like Lewandowski lecturing women about morality is peak MAGA."
Nothing pleases a MAGAdroid more than mansplaining to their womenfolk -- a demographic that the RINOs believe should be barefoot and pregnant, who never leaves the kitchen except to clean the house, do the grocery shopping, and servicing her man wherever, whenever, and however the Lord and Master wishes. (The MAGAverse will keep a couple of women around like MTG, Boebert or Noem for example for the same reason Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, or Vivek Ramaswamy are tolerated; so they can be brought out like trained seals as necessary to "prove" the New GOP is neither misogynistic nor racist.)
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""Gold Star families, whose children died because of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's incompetence, invited him to the cemetery. […] They wanted to take those photos."
I keep circling back to two main things about the invitation:
1 Did the three Gold Star families consider the feelings of the rest of the families or even think to ask if any of them might be offended? The person behind the remarkable, beautiful, perfect deal concluded with the Taliban -- while cutting out the recognized Afghanistan government from the negotiations -- has a direct connection with the deaths of their loved ones by his agreement with the Taliban. And since these three families are apparently staunch defenders of Democracy (as is any follower of the MAGA oberster Fuhrer), unless four other families agreed then the invitation should never have been extended -- majority rule and all that.
2 It doesn't matter one whit if three Gold Star families gave the Sandstone Snowflake's campaign permission to take videos and still pics in Sec 60, they lack the authority to contravene existing rules and regulations at ANC -- which were clearly detailed to the campaign prior to the "event."
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"Cotton should stop blaming everyone else when this could have been avoided if Trump had any respect for veterans and fallen soldiers in general."
One problem with this sentence: the Dull Orange Dullard has no respect for anybody but himself and those he has a mancrush on like Putin, Xi, Kim or Orbán as examples.
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"HEALEY: So, you know, I don't think Donald Trump can spell IVF, let alone understand what it means, because his own Project 2025"
No... no... no... no... no... a thousand times "no" Gov Healey. The Cadmium Orange Cancer repudiated Project 2025 as being too extremist. In its place he offered up his own perverted, illiberal manifesto titled Agenda47. One small problem though, Agenda47 is little more than Project 2025 slightly reworded and presented with a new wrapper.
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