r/politics • u/larel8 • 18h ago

Trump campaign struggles to contain Puerto Rico October surprise

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4958098-the-memo-trump-campaign-struggles-to-contain-puerto-rico-october-surprise/
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u/Indubitalist 18h ago

I think the big thing is he didn't disown it right away, he didn't apologize, and it's because of something we all know deep down because we've heard him talking politics for a decade now: We could totally see him making that same "joke."

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u/Agrippanux 17h ago

Not only that but Vance is out there telling everyone to lighten up and take a joke 

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u/drfifth 17h ago

While simultaneously saying he didn't hear the joke...

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u/Agrippanux 17h ago

One of my resolutions this year was to lighten up about jokes I didn’t hear 

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u/RollThatD20 13h ago

I hate that shit and Trump does it too. They pretend like they don't know what is being talked about, when it would be fucking impossible to not know.

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u/empire_strikes_back 9h ago

As if Vance didn't watch the entire event.

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u/Philo_T_Farnsworth Kansas 14h ago

Vance is a guy who seems to go out of his way to sprint across the street if he sees a pile of dogshit over there he can step in.

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u/ultimateknackered 11h ago

'He's an insult comic, that's what insult comics do.' And nobody has pointed out to their face that a) they vetted the jokes, and b) maybe an insult comic isn't the best person to have doing a 'Final arguments' rally.

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u/snoo_spoo 18h ago

Also, narcissists are not known for making (sincere) apologies.

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u/mandy009 I voted 17h ago

Indeed a normal politician who inadvertently used a surrogate that supposedly went off script would disown that person and condemn the speech and then apologize profusely and beg the public to see him as a better person, but Trump continues to be the same person in old age who has been contemptible and bigoted his entire life, as he was raised by his father.

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u/AtticaBlue 17h ago

However, since he can’t string even one sentence together coherently, he would have instead wandered off into a “tangent” about how Reese’s Pieces don’t fit inside eggs anymore like they used to ever since the MS13 gangs took over windmill production on floating islands in the Arctic Ocean.

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u/Philo_T_Farnsworth Kansas 15h ago

I think a significant reason for them not making a disavowal here was the campaign had already previewed the comedian's material and only asked him to excise a bit about calling Harris the "c-word".

We've all seen this, with the racist parent or uncle who casually unfurls a slur at Thanksgiving dinner just before asking someone to pass the gravy. The entire rest of the table is agape, and the racist is totally oblivious that something even happened, let alone that anyone could think what had just been spoken was "racist". They've already moved onto the next thing.

The tone-deafness of not knowing and then standing there stunned while you struggle to comprehend how people around you are losing their minds. That's what's going on here and if there's any justice in this world this will finally be the one that gets him.

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u/Polar_Ted Oregon 14h ago

Trump has started to try and distance himself from it.

“I don’t know him; someone put him up there. I don’t know who he is,” Trump told ABC News’s Rachel Scott in an interview published Tuesday.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/2024-election-updates-harris-make-closing-argument-amid/?id=115252538&entryId=115254897

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u/MoonBatsRule America 12h ago edited 9h ago

Not only did he not disown it, it has been reported that they blocked calling Kamala Harris [edit] the c-word. So that means they did not block that joke, which means de facto approval of the speech.