Trump Supporters Bored With His Speeches??
The article in Newsweek excerpted here leaves one with the impression that Trump is going to have a monstrously difficult time remaining active in American politics, even if, by some miracle, he can deal with the spate of legal woes he faces:
Both QAnon and longtime supporters of former President Donald Trump criticized his Saturday night speech in Wellington, Ohio, accusing him of the “same-old, same-old” grievances against Democrats and his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.
QAnon supporters, some of whom are the former president’s most fanatical online backers, sent a barrage of messages through the Telegram app that expressed boredom and even anger at the speech Trump described as “the very first rally of the 2022 election.” They blasted Trump for not mentioning how his January 6 insurrection supporters are “rotting in jail.” And numerous others said Trump should be booed by the Ohio rallygoers for even “bringing up the word ‘vaccine,'” specifically because they believe COVID-19 was entirely a hoax.
But a majority of the top QAnon user comments simply expressed their outright boredom with Trump’s post-election stump speech, in which he baselessly claimed to have won in November 2020 and blasted any dissenting GOP members as “traitors.”
“Judging by the Trump-supporting normies I live with, they were bored with his speech,” wrote another QAnon user. “I support Trump but this is getting ridiculous.”
“Love President Trump. But, if I’m being honest, it’s a lot of the ‘same old-same old,’ we’ve all heard a thousand times before,” wrote Annmarie Calabro.
Some of Trump’s more mainstream critics and former supporters also appeared to have grown tired of the former president using his rally platform to blast the same figures, such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Ohio GOP Congressman Anthony Gonzalez. Trump also painted a dire picture of the current state of America, claiming that the country is falling apart without his so-called leadership.
“Murders, rapes, rioting, looting, stolen elections happening everywhere, all the time, nonstop in America. Nothing but carnage. Everywhere you look,” Trump said Saturday night, prompting former Illinois GOP Congressman Joe Walsh to quote him, adding: “That’s about it. I’m gonna go play with the dogs.”
Several political pundits accused Trump of being unable to read off his teleprompter during the Ohio rally speech Saturday night. The Bulwark publication noted that Trump even attacked U.S. military leaders.
“In one of the only original passages in his Ohio speech, he criticized ‘woke generals’ and claimed that ‘our military will be incapable of fighting and incapable of taking orders.’ America’s ‘military brass have become weak and ineffective leaders,'” the publication noted.
I’m as anxious as the next guy to see Trump fade into history (while he’s in prison, of course). But seriously, what did these people expect him to say? Isn’t that what they came to hear, i.e., that their hero was robbed of a fair election that he won in a landslide, and therefore needs to be reinstated?
If Trump has any appeal to anyone, it’s rooted in his capacity to convince people that the country is a mess and that, as he said so often, that “only (he) can fix it.” If you care about this great country of ours, get me back in the White House. That’s not a talking point, it’s the talking point. It’s astonishing to hear that people find this redundant. Get used to it, guys.
And people honestly expected Trump to even mention the January 6th insurrection? There were dozens of catastrophic moments to Trump’s presidency, but the storming of the Capitol by 1000 +/- lawless morons in MAGA hats really was the bottom, so much so that his incitement of the incident may be the felony, out of all the others, that sends him up the river.
