Donald Trump Mar-a-Lago Press Conference: Watch It For Yourself
Donald Trump held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, and the news headlines coming out of it are vintage Trump and Trump coverage.
Mediaite covers some of the high spots:
THE GULF OF AMERICA
“We are going be changing — the opposite of Biden closing everything up and getting rid of 50 to 60 trillion worth of assets — we’ll be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring,” Trump explained during one tangent.
“That covers a lot of territory,” he added. “The Gulf of America. What a beautiful name. It is appropriate. It’s appropriate.”
‘HE WILL EXECUTE EVERYBODY!’
Before taking questions, the president-elect delved into one of his favorite topics: Special Counsel Jack Smith and the criminal cases he’s brought against Trump.
“Nobody’s ever won so many cases as I have against the Justice Department. I mean, Jack Smith had cases all over the place. People were being subpoenaed, lives were being ruined. They were spending everything they had– money. We were helping them out. We had to they were being they were subpoenaing people from that had no idea what they were even talking about. That’s a sick group of people. And it was all to influence the election,” mused Trump. It was all a fight against a political opponent. We’ve never had that in this country. We have had that in certain countries. We’ve had that in third-tier countries. We’ve had that in banana republics, but we’ve never had that in a place like the United States. I don’t even know if it’s been on a small level. I’m sure it has been on a small level, but this was the largest level ever. They brought this moron out of The Hague. He’s a mean guy. He’s a mean, nasty guy. His picture was perfect because you look at his picture, you say that’s a bad guy with his robe, his purple robe, and he executes people.”
“He shouldn’t be allowed to execute people because he will execute everybody! He’s a nut job. But we won all of those cases with him,” he concluded.
HEZBOLLAH CAPITOL RIOTERS
In yet another made-for-TV moment, Trump was asked if he was “you planning to pardon those who were charged with violent offenses” for their role in the January 6 Capitol riot.
Trump responded by the question by saying that “We’re looking at it,” before declaring that “We have to find out about Hezbollah. We have to find out about who exactly was in that whole thing because people that did some bad things were not prosecuted.”
“You know, I see it all the time. And you see it, too. People that were doing some bad things weren’t prosecuted, and people that didn’t even walk into the building are in jail right now,” added Trump. “So we’ll be looking at the whole thing, but I’ll be making major pardons, yes.”
You know, Atomic Kristin pops up here every now and again to complain about how focused this site is on DJT. I’m kind of beginning to see her point. What to do about this country having to suffer through 4(?) years of this guy’s idiotic meandering streams of consciousness?Report
What needed to be done wasn’t.Report
Maybe Mickey D’s will take care of it for us.Report
It’s funny you mention this. Despite my doubts about various moves made by Biden then Harris the reason I kept thinking the Democrats would eke out a win was because I suspected that all policy and other issues aside normie Americans would at the last second balk at spending another 4 years watching The Trump Show. Not because they disagree with him or because they fear him but because of the endless self absorption and melodrama, and the constant hysterical media saturation of all things Trump all the time. What’s funny after a few drinks on Saturday night often seems a lot less so Sunday morning with a headache.
My underbaked theory about 2020 is that half the reason he lost had nothing to do with the economy or covid, but that people were just tired of watching him on TV all day, every day. And especially in the early days of covid thats what it was. Everyone in their houses, all day, under constant bombardment by Trump with a brief respite for Joe Exotic.
To me personally that is the worst part of Trump and Trumpism. He is a giant vortex that sucks in the entire universe and through whom everything big and small must be parsed, processed, and shat out.Report
He does one particular thing that the media both hates and absolutely cannot get enough of: He gets asked question after question after question and gives something that mimics an answer.
As awful as it is to put up with Trump’s engagement with the media, compare it to four years of Biden’s interactions with them.
We had another shot at going through the Strait of Messina. As bad as Scylla is, Charybdis is worse.Report
Yea the most notable thing about the Biden administration in retrospect is the near total absence of the chief executive in Americans’ living rooms. It’s impossible to succeed in the modern political environment while being so completely MIA. At this point it seems fair to assume he was not there because for much of his term he wasn’t capable of it.Report
He is a wanna be wise guy who thinks this is how you get the “best” deals and he is gonna do incalculable damage that people will regret even if they are adamant black pillers.Report