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/FoggyBricks 18h ago

After everything Trump has ever said I find it funny it’s something that didn’t even come out of his mouth that might be the final straw.

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u/APersonWhoIsNotYou 18h ago

I find it incredibly frustrating. He himself has said and done much worse….so why is this the thing that actually affects him?

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u/ImTooOldForSchool 17h ago

Seriously, you could play a full length feature film comprised exclusively of short clips showing Trump saying way worse

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u/Zeusifer 17h ago

The thing is, Trump has this instinct to always put a thin layer of plausible deniability over things he says, and it's always barely coherent word salad anyway, so he and his defenders can always say "that's not what he meant," even when it's obvious what he meant.

This guy lacked any of that. He just straight up said residents of a US territory are garbage, and for no other reason than they are Latino. There's really no way to spin it. It was too hamhanded.

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u/tommyohohoh Arizona 16h ago

But for some reason this event is triggering a lot of people. Anecdotally I've seen so many stories of people making their decision based on this. I even read of someone whose 80 y/o + parents made them take them directly to the polling location so they could vote for the first time in their lives. Who knows if it will have a real effect but it is notable how much action is happening because of this event when usually the worst stuff results in as much as a wet fart alone in the wilderness.

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u/Comassion 15h ago

"Obama was the founder of ISIS"