‘You Go To Hell!’: Trump Ends Convention With The Most Bizarre Pledge You'll Ever Hear
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The president tried to get the crowd to repeat after him — but he kept getting sidetracked.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51800379

President Donald Trump concluded his Republican midterm convention on Thursday by leading the audience in a pledge … to himself.

Trump asked the crowd to raise their right hands and begin: “I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States.”

The crowd dutifully repeated the line, calling Trump “the greatest president in the history of the United States.”

Trump added: “that loves us so much he can’t even breathe.”

The crowd again repeated the line, but then it got a little harder to follow.

“That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it anyway, I don’t care if I’m registered or not. I’m going to try and cheat like hell like they do,” he said. “There’s never been bigger cheaters, they don’t care. I am going to go out and I am going to get my friends, my family, and we are going to vote on November 3rd or we are going to vote before that.”

Unable to repeat all of that, the crowd cheered.

Trump realized he lost them and reset.

“Are you ready?” he asked. “Here’s the way you ― “

But he wasn’t ready himself as he got sidetracked by people in the audience. He tried once more to finish, with the crowd repeating after him, but left them behind as he went off on another tangent.

“So help me God,” he concluded.

The crowd repeated that part heartily.

“You know what happens if you don’t vote?” Trump asked. “You go to hell!”

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      Actually, Fox just fired a Trump apparatchik for leaking Fox News communiques to the White House. Something is going on with the right. Maybe the corpos are finally realizing that in a fascist state, they have the same rights as everyone else, ie, none.

      • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        7·
        3 days ago

        nah, it’s just that fascists eat each other too.

        when your goal is absolute power no matter the cost, even factions within your group can become obstacles. The new fascists are often butting heads with the old fascists.

        • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          So, what is the faction of the conservative movement that benefits from Trump losing power? Maybe they see him as a millstone around the neck of the party at this point.

          • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            See you’re thinking like a rational human being. It’s not even so much that they benefit from Trump losing power so much as they want to be the ones in power. They’re killing children and lining their pockets either way, but they wanna do it their way and kill the children they want to kill.

            Infighting simply isn’t a rational decision to make in the first place. They should work together to complete a large number of their shared goals, and then split into infighting over their ideological differences once the bigger battles have been won. They are indulging in their emotions, but one should never correct an enemy making a mistake.