Trump campaign reset goes awry in Pennsylvania as he attacks Harris

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/17/trump-pennsylvania-rally?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

31 Comments

  1. Well that ‘reset’ didn’t last long. Kinda like when he ‘changed’ after the assassination attempt but quickly changed back.

  2. Remember in 2016 when everyone thought “oh he’ll be normal by the primary/convention/debates/general election/inauguration?”

    Fool me once…

  3. RaymondBeaumont on

    “Ex-president quickly broke away from prepared speech to accuse vice-president of being a communist and a fascist”

    In his mind, Harris is literally a McBain villain.

  4. There is not and will not be a campaign reset. Trump was barely manageable during 2016, and during his presidency. Increasing age and lots more anger have made him into a temperamental child. Try controlling an angry four-year-old. You can’t do it.

  5. “And I’ll tell you this, any Jewish person that votes for her or a Democrat has to go out and have their head examined.”

    Interesting take from the most “he should have his head examined” guy I’ve ever seen in my fucking life.

  6. There is no reasoning with or controlling trump. They did this to themselves by nominating him

  7. revmaynard1970 on

    They are just going to have to let trump be trump. There is no changing this guy and I’m all for it.
    Let the GOP drown in the bathtub

  8. The media’s ‘reset’ narrative is malicious. They know who he is and they know he hasn’t changed.

  9. Do you think it’s within the realm of possibility that his campaign advisers just quit en masse because he won’t listen to them? I mean, I have to think that if running/advising on campaigns is your job, and you are part of a campaign that crashes and burns, it reflects poorly on you. Therefore these people would want to get out before it gets much worse.

  10. I love thinking that his handlers and gop high ups are pulling their hair out every time he speaks.

  11. My favorite part is when he reads the obviously prepared line from the teleprompter and then instantly contradicts whatever point the speech writer was trying to get across. He lies so easily about so much but if he doesn’t agree with something he is a wide open book that never hides his true thoughts

  12. He squandered the whole getting nicked by something in the ear the second he wore that ridiculous “bandage”

  13. He thinks calling her a communist is an insult when his best friend is Putin makes me laugh.

  14. Today’s rally:

    Trump proclaimed his tariff increases are not passed on to consumers.

    He thanked the people of North Carolina. (he was in Pennsylvania)

    Contended he is ‘better looking” than Kamala Harris.

    [Advertised on Craigslist for attendees.](https://scranton.craigslist.org/tlg/d/wilkes-barre-attendees-needed-for-rally/7776083770.html)

    Meanwhile, Fox was doing a full on attack against Harris for… eating Doritos.

    edit: here’s the archive link for the Craigslist post for posterity:

    https://archive.ph/7Jq9M

  15. The photo in the article makes it look like about 40% of the seats were empty. And that’s when he’s onstage.

  16. The_Woman_of_Gont on

    It’s been 9 years of this garbage. The idea he could pivot back then was naive in the extreme. The idea he can do it now, when he’s struggling with dementia, is sheer lunacy.

  17. ImLikeReallySmart on

    Why do people (ahem, news outlets) keep falling for this “reset” bullshit every time?

  18. Impossible-Glove3926 on

    What reset? He pretty much said “ever since someone tried to kill me my campaign staff wants me to change, but fuck them.” No matter how much the RNC and his handlers push him to stay on message and stop with the personal attacks he never will. His mind is too addled and poisoned with the hateful rhetoric he has been feeding his cult he doesn’t even know what is real anymore.

  19. Radiant-Specific969 on

    He has to attack Kamala for Bidens record, otherwise people will look at his record. Were we better off in 2020 than 2016? No way! Trump didn’t drain the swamp, he sold us out to his billionaire buddies, dismantled the CDC right before Covid, now he’s is openly selling his influence to the highest bidder. He is the most crooked, screwy, weirdo we ever have had.

  20. DocHolidayPhD on

    Dude was always a one trick pony and the trick was never even that interesting or original to begin with…

  21. I think its fucking hilarious that the entire conservative media ecosystem is screaming “Stop being such a complete dunce and asshat, please be a person you’ve never been in your entire life so you can win this race, it’s easy, just change literally everything about your personality and the way you think and act!”

    It ain’t gonna happen you fuckwads…there is no “reset” there is no “change of tone/direction” this is who he is, who he’s always been and he’s going to lose- again

    Also…side note- Reset to *WHAT* exactly? He’s always been a dunce and an asshole..reset means go back to the norm or the beginning, he’s always been this lol