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    “This Is So Unfair to Me”: Trump Whines About His COVID-19 Victimhood as Campaign Flails

    As he headed into Memorial Day weekend, Donald Trump complained that he was COVID-19’s biggest victim. “He was just in a fucking rage,” said a person who spoke with Trump late last week. “He was saying, ‘This is so unfair to me! Everything was going great. We were cruising to reelection!” Even as the death toll
    neared 100,000 and unemployment ranks swelled to over 38 million, Trump couldn’t see the pandemic as anything other than something that had happened to him. “The problem is he has no empathy,” the adviser said. Trump complained that he should have been warned about the virus sooner. “The intelligence community let me down!” he said.
    The White House declined to comment.
    Trump’s outburst reflected his growing frustration that, at this stage of the race, he is losing to Joe Biden. According to a Republican briefed on the campaign’s internal polls, Trump is trailing Biden by double digits among women over 50 in six swing states. “Trump knows the numbers are bad. It’s why he’s thrashing about,” the Republican said.
    Even those closest to Trump have been privately worried the election is slipping away. According to a source, Melania Trump warned the president during their trip to India in February to take the virus response seriously. “He totally blew her off,” the source said. Melania later told people that Trump “only hears what he wants to hear and surrounds himself with yes-people and family,” the source added.
    The first lady’s office did not respond to a request for comment.
    But with formerly solid-red Georgia in play, Trump has conceded to reality and is shaking up his campaign. This morning the campaign promoted former White House political director Bill Stepien to deputy campaign manager and named Stephanie Alexander, the Midwest political director, to the post of campaign chief of staff. The moves are being seen by many in Trumpworld as a demotion for Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, who has been at odds with Trump for weeks over his spending and the president’s deteriorating poll numbers. “Trump has been screaming at Brad, ‘How many fucking times do I have to tell you I don’t like this! Are you fucking stupid?’” said a Republican who’s overheard the conversations. (“Your source is wrong,” a campaign spokesperson said in an email. “The President never said that about Brad.”) “Once you get on the wrong side of the mountain with Trump, it’s hard to get back,” said a Trump friend.
    About Stepien’s promotion, the campaign spokesperson said, “This is a solidification of Brad’s leadership.”
    Stepien, a close ally of Jared Kushner, is viewed by Trump advisers as a competent tactician who can help the campaign appeal to alienated suburban voters. “This is a sign the campaign realized they needed to bring in the big boys,” said a former West Wing official.
    The problem for Stepien, though, is that no amount of messaging or get-out-the-vote efforts can shade the reality that Trump’s mishandling of the pandemic has plunged the country into a once-in-a-century economic crisis. It’s a point Stepien tacitly made when I interviewed him before the 2018 midterms. “Bottom line is Americans want security. They want to feel safe in the realm of national security, and they want to feel economically secure,” Stepien said at the time.
    But the biggest obstacle standing in the way of a Trump-campaign reset is the candidate. “Trump is doing it to himself by tweeting idiotic conspiracy theories about Joe Scarborough. Women are tired of this shit,” said another former West Wing official. An outside adviser agreed. “Trump can’t pivot to a different strategy,” the adviser told me. “He only knows one strategy—which is attack. It worked in 2016. But now it’s not what people are looking for.” The adviser told me that Trump’s New York friends are planning an intervention to get him to stop tweeting about the Morning Joe cohost.
    And when he’s not feeling helpless or aggrieved, Trump continues to cling to magical thinking. “He lives in his own fucking world,” the outside adviser said. Trump recently told a friend that the Moderna vaccine is going to be ready in months.
    At this point many Republicans I spoke to said the only hope for Trump is that Biden implodes. As one prominent Republican put it: “Right now the only person who can change the dynamic is Joe Biden.”



    “This Is So Unfair to Me”: Trump Whines About His COVID-19 Victimhood as Campaign Flails

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    Quote Originally Posted by beachbound View Post
    “This Is So Unfair to Me”
    Fuck off Mr. Bonespurs.

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    Hitting him where it hurts. ...

    Twitter labels Trump's false claims with warning for first time

    Twitter for the first time took action against a series of tweets by Donald Trump, labeling them with a warning sign and providing a link to further information.

    Since ascending to the US presidency, Trump has used his Twitter account to threaten a world leader with war, amplify racist misinformation by British hate figures and, as recently as Tuesday morning, spread a lie about the 2001 death of a congressional aide in order to smear a cable news pundit. Throughout it all, Twitter has remained steadfast in its refusal to censor the head of state, even going so far as to write a new policy to allow itself to leave up tweets by “world leaders” that violate its rules.

    The company’s decision on Tuesday afternoon to affix labels to a series of Trump tweets about California’s election planning is the result of a new policy debuted on 11 May. They were applied – hours after the tweets initially went out – because Trump’s tweets violated Twitter’s “civic integrity policy”, a company spokeswoman confirmed, which bars users from “manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes”, such as by posting misleading information that could dissuade people from participating in an election.

    Trump responded on Tuesday evening with a pair of tweets that repeated his false claims about voting and accused Twitter of “interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election”. “Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!” he wrote. Federal law protects the rights of internet platforms to moderate the third-party speech they publish.

    Trump’s tweets include numerous false statements about California’s plan to expand access to voting by mail in November due to the coronavirus outbreak. The tweets now feature a light blue exclamation point icon, with the message “Get the facts about mail-in ballots”.

    Clicking on the alert will link users to a “Twitter-curated page” that variously describes Trump’s claims as “unsubstantiated” and false. The Twitter page also aggregates tweets from a number of journalists and publications explaining why Trump’s statements are false.

    Trump’s claims about California on Tuesday were blatantly wrong. The state is not sending a ballot to anyone who lives in the state but rather those registered there. Sam Mahood, a spokesman for the secretary of state, Alex Padilla, said in an email only active voters in the state would be mailed ballots.

    Twitter labels Trump's false claims with warning for first time | Donald Trump | The Guardian

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    He's going to love that.
    Looks like he read it

    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...583711758?s=20



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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    Looks like he read it
    He does not read it must have been on Fox News..

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    He does not read it must have been on Fox News..
    Of course. Silly me.

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    This (Twitter) will hurt him where he lives..... lets see how he moves this into the realm of the ridiculous.....

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    President Donald Trump-ey510ghxgaidues-jpg

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    Skip to minute 6
    No the entire thing is profound.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    No the entire thing is profound.
    Agreed.

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    Oligarch heir telling people what to think on CNN...hilarious

    Muppets swallow it like mother's milk.

    Vanderbilt oligarch heir Anderson Cooper worked at CIA in college | The Grayzone



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    Go back to bed

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    Quote Originally Posted by Foreskin
    Oligarch heir telling people what to think on CNN...hilarious

    Muppets swallow it like mother's milk.

    Vanderbilt oligarch heir Anderson Cooper worked at CIA in college | The Grayzone
    Yo, Dickskin, What does that have to do with the video, and what did he say that was not true?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SKkin View Post
    Oligarch heir telling people what to think on CNN...hilarious

    Muppets swallow it like mother's milk.

    Vanderbilt oligarch heir Anderson Cooper worked at CIA in college | The Grayzone



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    It's common knowledge, not like you're making a big revelation.
    And as said, what's that got to do with the video?

    Trump actually did and said all those things ON FILM and TWITTER.

    Again, what did he report that wasn't true?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    It's common knowledge, not like you're making a big revelation.
    And as said, what's that got to do with the video?

    Trump actually did and said all those things ON FILM and TWITTER.

    Again, what did he report that wasn't true?
    It seems ballbag will look for any reason to stick his fingers in his ears over the fat orange turd's catalogue of lies and insults.

    He's got a bad case of confirmation bias. It's like HooHoo and the chinkies all over again.

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    Trump talking about shutting down social media,

    now that should really save the world, excellent idea

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    ^ Except that without the social media he'd never become president.
    He can't shut it down - he needs it so dearly and is only bluffing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lom View Post
    ^ Except that without the social media he'd never become president.
    He can't shut it down - he needs it so dearly and is only bluffing.
    And he can't shut it down because he doesn't have the authority, even if he does think he is King Orange Turd I.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DragonTurd
    Trump talking about shutting down social media,

    ...is a bit like a heroin addict calling the cops on his dealer.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post
    Trump talking about shutting down social media,

    now that should really save the world, excellent idea


    Donald J Trump, POTUS , petulant baby president is throwing his toys out of his cot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo
    It's common knowledge, not like you're making a big revelation.
    And as said, what's that got to do with the video?

    Trump actually did and said all those things ON FILM and TWITTER.

    Again, what did he report that wasn't true?
    He will ignore anything and everything -- facts, logic, common sense, and even actual real conspiracies -- to push his conspiracy du jour.

    Trump and people involved in actual conspiracies love people like him because they're easily distracted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    He will ignore anything and everything
    The United States past the 100,000 mark in Covid deaths, today.

    Not a peep out of that piece of shit, all day long.

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    Looking back on some memorable comments from the first couple of pages of this thread, 4 years ago....

    Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
    Not my country, but my 2 cents worth.....I would tend to let him do what he wanted, and see how quickly he can hang himself..
    Seems to be working


    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Earl View Post


    It isn't about Trump or Clinton. It is all about ending the lying cheating government bullshit.
    Just beginning
    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Earl View Post
    People are rejecting bullshit government.

    When does that start on the right?


    Quote Originally Posted by raycarey View Post
    we should brace ourselves for the worst imaginable outcomes. .
    Proverbial nail on the head




    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Oh fuck, they've given the c u n t his twitter account back!
    Hahahahaha!


    Quote Originally Posted by mykthemin View Post
    No chance they are outnumbered thankfully and now sensible things can be done to get rid of all the crap from the last 8 plus years. How any one could support that criminal bitch clinton is beyond me?
    Spot on!




    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonturd
    His only chance is with the Dems, and they might accomplish better things together.
    Moron




    Quote Originally Posted by Cold Pizza View Post


    He will have to work with the Repubs on what he wants to do.
    Not exactly


    Quote Originally Posted by billy the kid View Post
    Donald will spend more time on the golf course.,
    Spot on.


    Quote Originally Posted by longway View Post
    ^ Racist bigoted libtards are rioting and attacking people, or that is what I have seen in the news anyway.
    Hannity, or Tucker Carlson?


    Quote Originally Posted by thailazer View Post
    It just blows my mind that people can't see what this guy is really all about. Are the majority of Americans that illiterate and totally without people skills?

    I feel ya, brother.

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    I saw on the evening news that Trump is going to sign an executive order tomorrow about social media. This is going to be a good one! What is it going to say? Don't Fact Check posts?

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