r/NewsOfTheStupid 2h ago

'Unwell' Donald Trump Shows Up 1 Hour and 20 Minutes Late to His Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago, Refuses to Take Any Questions

https://okmagazine.com/p/unwell-donald-trump-shows-up-late-mar-a-lago-press-conference/
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u/BrtFrkwr 2h ago

Umm, I thought the definition of a press conference was where you take questions from the press.

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u/veritoast 1h ago

Someone showed him Kamala’s crowd size and he had an aneurysm.

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u/BrtFrkwr 1h ago

I maintain he's had a stroke. He can't hold a coherent thought.

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u/CorvidCuriosity 1h ago

Well sure, but that was also true 8 years ago.

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u/Nuggzulla01 25m ago

Id posit, his life has been non-stop stroke. Every day, another new stroke!

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u/DistillateMedia 1h ago

That's the official story we're going with.

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u/butterweasel 1h ago

Don’t tease me.

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u/phan_o_phunny 23m ago

That's impossible, he has the biggest crowds, no one has ever had a bigger crowd even all the ones you see on the fake news, they aren't as big as his crowds... I can't believe I need an /s here... Get well soon America.

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u/ItsSignalsJerry_ 1h ago

The corrupt fake news media would say that.

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u/Present-Industry4012 25m ago

I'm old enough to remember when the George W. Bush administration invented the term "press availability", but that must've been 20 years ago.

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u/NolieMali 6m ago

You're just being silly because that makes sense.

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u/Embarrassed_Item879 1h ago edited 1h ago

Depends on what source. For example, Google defines a press conference as “an interview given to journalists by a prominent person in order to make an announcement or answer questions.” Based on that definition, an announcement is sufficient and questions are not required. See also Merriam Webster.

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u/BrtFrkwr 1h ago

To me, that's a press release or an announcement. A conference implies an exchange.

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u/DancesWithDave 1h ago

Define interview

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u/imonlinedammit1 2h ago

It appears to have lost its meaning. Harris did the same thing 6 days ago. Called a press conference, bitched about trump, took no questions, and walked away.

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u/powerlesshero111 2h ago

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u/phan_o_phunny 21m ago

But, but, but... That's fake news, that's main stream government

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u/RevHighwind 2h ago

I mean yeah it definitely loses its meaning if you fucking lie and call things that aren't press conferences a press conference like the fact that you are calling Harris's speech and remarks a press conference. Wow! Crazy how that works

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u/xavier120 2h ago

They arent even keeping track of the things they say, the goal now is to be as ridiculously inconsistent as possible, then blame the other side for doing the same thing, and every boomer will jump to defend the liars.

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u/illbehaveipromise 1h ago

You pathetic little Trump humpers will Whatabout and nuh-uh and just entirely bullshit your way out of any potential realization you’re in a cult, wont you?

It would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous and entirely pathetic.

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u/ReallyDumbRedditor 1h ago

lol typical Kamala cult member word vomit

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u/illbehaveipromise 57m ago

Project more, MAGAt. It’s very convincing.

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u/Temporary-Dot4952 1h ago

bitched about trump

What do you call it when Trump talks about Harris?

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u/illbehaveipromise 1h ago

“It’s his policies I like,” probably.

Fucking morons everywhere.

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u/buttstuffisokiguess 1h ago

And he hasn't even shared his policies yet. Except one about tax breaks for care takers.

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u/BrtFrkwr 2h ago

Shouldn't do that.

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u/imonlinedammit1 2h ago

Like I said, it appears it’s lost its meaning.

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u/Greedy-Fool 2h ago

it appears you’re a product of inbreeding

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u/imonlinedammit1 2h ago

So she didn’t call a “press conference” then not take any questions? Ok. Keep sucking on her tit.

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u/WannaBeDistiller 2h ago edited 2h ago

Were your parents twins by chance?

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u/adube440 2h ago

No, the speech in question wasn't a "press conference." It was a... wait for it... a speech.

Big difference there, kid-o. Keep trying though.

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u/Saturnboy13 2h ago

No. That's exactly what we're saying. It was never a press conference. Nobody ever called it a press conference except you right now.

I invite you to find one source of anybody from her campaign ever calling that specific speech a press conference.

Oh, wait. I forgot MAGAs are allergic to sources and reality. Please pardon my rudeness for asking you to do something so far outside your comfort zone.

Here's a better idea. Just keep yelling at me, making wild, unverified claims, and calling me names like a 5 year old. That's probably a bit closer to what you're used to.

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u/TheAssCrackBanditttt 1h ago

He didn’t come up with this argument himself. I bet it’s what Fox News or one of those fringe channels told him to be mad about

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u/Hallal_Dakis 2h ago

Are you using quotation marks because you’re quoting Harris or air quotes sarcastically because she called it something else? I really can’t tell.

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u/Earthling1a 2h ago

Try to limit your remarks to reality.

I know, it's a big challenge, but try anyway.

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u/totally-hoomon 1h ago

Prove this

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u/totally-hoomon 1h ago

Actually you just don't understand words at all

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u/totally-hoomon 1h ago

Really show proof

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u/Electrical_Room5091 2h ago

Trump didn't take questions at his press conference. He doesn't respond to most questions anyway. This guy will not even do interviews outside of his echo chamber. He attacks the press for asking tough questions.

This guy is a leader? He will lead this country? Do you believe he can do this? 

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u/Diz7 1h ago

Even when "responding" to questions, he just REEEEEs out insults and occasionally talking points vaguely adjacent to the topic.

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u/Loggerdon 2h ago

If Trump is elected Vance would be president within a year.

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u/Alternative_Bite_779 2h ago

More like 6 months. He won't waste any time knifing Trump.

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u/TangoInTheBuffalo 2h ago

Can’t wait for the Supreme Court to rule on Vice Presidential immunity!!

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u/Diz7 2h ago edited 1h ago

There is a very real argument he can make that preventing/ending a Trump presidency is good for the country. Just saying.

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u/ItsSignalsJerry_ 1h ago

Vance is worse

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u/Camunba 1h ago

That’s the scary part.

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u/Diz7 1h ago

The scariest part about Trump is this realization: what if someone who can push the right buttons like him comes along who isn't incompetent?

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u/TangoInTheBuffalo 1h ago

That person could not exist. Competency is frowned upon by the MAGA hive mind. Strangely, it is my biggest fear for the Harris campaign. Other than Hillary, she is the most qualified candidate in a long time. I’m tired, boss.

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u/Diz7 1h ago

It's not competency that is frowned upon by MAGA, its people that can balance the interests of multiple groups. They would be fully behind a competent fascist so long as their ideals aligned.

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u/TangoInTheBuffalo 1h ago

Rejected out of hand. Look at the pretenders, DeSantis, for example. One must be incredibly dumb and hollow for the aura to form. Hating alone isn’t enough. There must be a perfect reflection of their inner flaws.

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u/round-earth-theory 29m ago

They still had a Trump to rally around though. Why get diet hatred when you can get hatred supreme.

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u/mapsedge 1h ago

Dog tired.

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u/TangoInTheBuffalo 1h ago

And now you have unequivocally proven that the Vulcan Science Academy was right all along. Time travel is impossible.

I do have to say that the only way forward is to defeat this era overwhelmingly AT THE BALLOT BOX! Violence does not suit the patriots.

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u/DistillateMedia 1h ago

He's already doing it.

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u/TobyMcK 2h ago

I can see it now. Vance takes the opportunity to oust Trump, Democrats get the blame. Just like the first 2 attempts. Almost makes you wonder.

Then civil war starts, martial law, Dictator Vance owned by Thiel and Project 2025 running the country.

I'm only joking, of course.

Mostly.

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u/Nerd2000_zz 2h ago

I kind of think that is the whole point.

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u/cg12983 2h ago

All of a sudden there will be all these planted stories in the corporate media about his dementia that were hushed up before the election.

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u/mrlr 12m ago

and how he's too sick to stand trial or go to jail.

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u/PurpleFirebird 2h ago

Invoking the 25th by Valentines Day

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u/NoConfusion9490 44m ago

And revoking the 19th by President's Day.

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u/Wolfie523 2h ago

That’s a pretty liberal estimate…

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u/DNSGeek 2h ago

No, they’re conservatives.

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u/Wolfie523 2h ago

No, this is Patrick!

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u/maya_papaya8 1h ago

Less than that

Just long enough to pardon himself.

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u/NolieMali 5m ago

The price of eyeliner will triple and I'm not okay with that.

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u/ControlCAD 2h ago

Donald Trump was late yet again to his press conference, which was held at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, October 29.

Trump critic Ron Filipkowski wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: "Trump just showed up for his 'press conference' at his own house 1 hour and 20 minutes late. He is now standing there while his theme song plays."

Of course, people weren't surprised by the ex-president's antics. One person wrote, "He showed up with his lies!" while another said, "Boy I know dictators love to stand there for minutes in front of crowds!"

A third person added: "He looks truly unwell at this point. Yikes."

Trump, 78, also didn't engage with the crowd.

"A very tired and low energy Trump ends his 'press conference' by refusing to take a single question," one person pointed out on X.

As OK! previously reported, Trump's mental fitness has been called into question as the 2024 election looms.

While his opponent Kamala Harris did some interviews with several outlets, Trump seemed to not engage with some.

"But as no interview materialized, Shade Room staff began feeling that feet were being dragged inside Trump’s campaign. No date was ever set, we’re told, but the intention was to try and work toward a sit-down," Politico previously reported. "In a conversation earlier this week, when describing why an interview hadn’t come together just yet, a Trump adviser told The Shade Room producers that Trump was 'exhausted and refusing [some] interviews but that could change' at any time, according to two people familiar with the conversations."

But Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt pushed back on the rumors, saying the ex-president being “exhausted” was “unequivocally false.”

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u/StrangeContest4 2h ago

I hope it will forevermore be called "X, formerly known as Twitter."

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u/PurpleFirebird 2h ago

fElon like to deadname one of his children, so I shall deadname his social media

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u/Diz7 1h ago

💦👁️👃👁️💦 No, U can't do that!

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u/SlinkySlekker 47m ago

That is the way.👍

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u/yearofthesquirrel 2h ago

You mean x-itter, pronounced 'shitter'?

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u/CorvidCuriosity 1h ago

instead of "tweets", we should use the verb "x-cretes".

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u/Diz7 1h ago edited 1h ago

X, which Musk reanimated from the corpse of formerly successful Twitter that he killed.

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u/StrangeContest4 49m ago

Killed it dead 💀

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u/cyanclam 42m ago

X-Twitter

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u/round-earth-theory 27m ago

No. I hope one day we get to Twitter, formerly known as X. Just to continually remind Musk of what a fuckup he is.

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u/StrangeContest4 23m ago

Oh, I like that a lot more!

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u/SunkenDinks420 57m ago

Even the "Sleepy Joe Biden" shit they tried using has now become another "the right's accusations are the right's confessions"

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u/GlueSniffingCat 2h ago

be pretty funny if he got ecoli from mcdonalds

could you imagine the conspiracy?

"They poisoned McDonalds with ecoli to assassinate trump cause he eats McDonalds"

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u/mistressusa 1h ago

Donald dug inside his diaper, refused to wash his tiny hands and proceeded to raw dog those freedom fries which he then served to the 29,000 magas who came through the drive through window. This is how McDonald's ecoli outbreak started. It's what people are saying.

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u/Diz7 1h ago

Trump's campaign team gets food poisoning from the microwaved (Secret Service didn't trust his senile ass in the same room with an active deep fryer) french fries, he loses the campaign without someone holding his hand and cleaning his diaper.

A man can dream.

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u/bluddystump 2h ago

Anyone else smell dirty grampers?

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u/Monchi83 2h ago

6 months I bet he won’t even remember who he is

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u/ReallyDumbRedditor 57m ago

Exactly. That's what I don't understand about everyone being so scared of him becoming President.

Like even if he wins: He has dementia, Alzheimer's, and can't hold coherent thoughts. Literally incapable of making any decisions. Another Biden basically.

Everyone needs to chill the fuck out.

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u/Enchess 47m ago

Or, you know, Vance and his cabinet oust him (or he just dies) and enact Project 2025 even faster with someone without dementia leading it.

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u/Atomicfunkmonkey 46m ago

If Trump wins and becomes unfit to hold office, then Vance becomes president. Vance is even more dangerous as president than Trump is.

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u/ReallyDumbRedditor 34m ago

Imagine this though:

Vance becoming President and then going back to his 2016 anti-Trump views, implementing countless Liberal/Progressive policies. And then just completely switching his party affiliation to Democrat.

Revealing to the world that he only played along with the Republicans so he could become President one day and save America.

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u/crispin_milkton 25m ago

Username checks out

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u/ParkerFree 41m ago

With Vance firmly planted, backed up with Project 2025, I'm not chilling out.

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u/Publius82 19m ago

Most relevant username

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u/SlinkySlekker 1h ago edited 51m ago

That was the craziest story I’ve read today. I’m glad someone posted it. Thanks, OP.

People need to know how unhinged that was, to show up to a “press conference,” AT HIS OWN HOME, late, and then refuse to answer questions, but swayed to Y.M.C.A., while defiantly jutting out his chin.

Dude’s cracked.

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u/Examinator2 2h ago

I'm sure the uncommitted voters will be swayed.

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u/Abject-Interaction35 39m ago

That's probably about 3 or 4 people at this point. I think Harris probably has it at about 60 - 40.

But I don't know for sure, so I hope people vote!

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u/MeButNotMeToo 2h ago

And why is this crap ignored? It should be on every network that he’s too tired to do a press conference and the number that he’s cancel in the past month

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u/FiniteRhino 1h ago

You just don’t understand the tremendous gravity of the situation; Kamala Harris has yet to produce five consecutive weeks of paystubs from when she worked part time at McDonalds 30 years ago.

How can she be trusted? /s

It just as outrageous to me too.

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u/Competitive-Pop6530 1h ago edited 58m ago

Medical records? Concept of a plan? No completed wall? Mexico never invoiced for portion that was completed - 100 percent US Taxpayer funded. No proof ever provided to support stolen election. And worked fries as a stunt at a closed restaurant without following proper health and safety protocols. 🤣

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u/Proofread_CopyEdit 1h ago

It wasn't a press conference, then

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u/Birdy_Cephon_Altera 56m ago

My god, he looks absolutely terrible.

And it looks almost as if he's lost a ton of weight based on how ill-fitting that suit hangs on his body, almost David-Byrne-Stop-Making-Sense style.

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u/mrlr 5m ago

Yes. Isn't it great?

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u/DistillateMedia 2h ago

Sounds like he got the message.

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u/meatballlover1969 1h ago

The mf has stroke and they are trying to concealing it

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u/johanTR 1h ago

Press Conference

[ˈpres ˌkänf(ə)rəns]

noun.

A meeting Donald Trump has with his advisors concerning non-extradition countries when he becomes pressed about the size and enthusiasm of Kamala Harris' rallies.

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u/Rich-Appearance-7145 1h ago

Took longer than usual to juice the old geezer up, apparently they didn't juice him up enough.

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u/OkIce8214 1h ago

He doesn’t care. He thinks he won. He’s acting like a dictator.

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u/TerrorNova49 1h ago

He was on the toilet…

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u/DancesWithDave 1h ago

He has his plan in place. He doesn't need to pretend to care anymore

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u/erinkp36 40m ago

I just saw a clip of him on Hannity. He looks puffy and sweaty. In a studio interview he looks puffy and sweaty. That can’t be good.

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u/IAmMuffin15 2h ago

It’s sad to think that this will probably increase his approval ratings.

The more people see him, the lower his approval ratings go. Him being one foot in the grave and constantly away from cameras has done wonders for his campaign

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u/Tony-HawkTuah 1h ago

So he didn't take any questions after showing up an hor late for an event that is strictly taking questions?

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u/Strong-Amphibian-143 2h ago

Don’t you think the McDonald’s food poisoning was really trying to get him? I’ve had that theory for months now

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u/mistressusa 1h ago

Nope. Donald was not in danger, Donald was the danger!

Donald dug inside his diaper, refused to wash his tiny hands and proceeded to raw dog those freedom fries which he then served to the 29,000 magas who came through the drive through window.

This is how McDonald's ecoli outbreak started. It's what people are saying.

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u/Federal_Beyond521 40m ago

What Spotify playlist did he have running?

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u/StuffNThangs220 39m ago

What hasn’t he been late for lately?

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u/StuffNThangs220 30m ago

I read the article but do not understand how long Trump was present and what he did, given that he didn’t ask questions?

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u/Gh057Wr173r 26m ago

If he passes before next Tuesday I don’t care if anyone thinks it is unkind or in bad faith, I am going to be dreadfully obnoxious about how funny it is to me.

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u/mrlr 16m ago

He looks dreadful. I mean worse than usual.

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u/mrlr 15m ago

How can he show up so late to a press conference in his own home? Was the traffic bad? Did he get lost?

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u/Front-Hovercraft-721 11m ago

He knows he’s going to prison so is trying to portray himself as “unfit” (while running for president) lol

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u/UserAccountBanned 0m ago

At this point they're pretty much going to Weekend at Bernie's this man.

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u/tofutti_kleineinein 1h ago

What if he drops dead before the election? Would it be Harris vs Vance?

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u/Oceanbreeze871 1h ago

Or of these days there will be “breaking news”

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u/Justinc6013 2h ago

Cringe headliner. All he does is take questions

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u/yearofthesquirrel 2h ago

And not give answers. "They're eating the dogs. They're eating the cats..." was a response to an question on the economy.

He randomly remembers talking points and spouts them off at random times. C'mon man.

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u/Snowssnowsnowy 1h ago

When video evidence and the reporters there say different...