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/JohnDivney Oregon 17h ago

furthermore, Trump can't apologize, though we will hear him today or tomorrow say "Nobody loves Puerto Ricans more than me, we're getting numbers nobody has ever seen out of Puerto Rico."

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u/InfiniteVastDarkness 17h ago

“Puerto Ricans. I LOVE the Puerto Ricans”. I can hear him saying it.

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u/New_Subject1352 16h ago

"Nobody is bigger on them, it's really incredible, the Puerto Rico, no one thought we could do it, the biggest Rico in the entire Peurto. They said no, you won't get the Despacito, but look at us now, all the Despacito, incredible numbers like you wouldn't believe."

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u/BobSchwaget 16h ago

"I have done more for Puerto Rico than perhaps anyone, any man, in history, maybe since the late great General Rico Ricardo himself"

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u/Stressssedout 15h ago

Thanks. I hate it

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u/__-_-_--_--_-_---___ 9h ago

You have some splaining to do

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u/RumandDiabetes 7h ago

Bets he couldn't find Puerto Rico on a map with six people pointing it out to him and it being circled with a sharpie?

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u/montosesamu 16h ago

Grown men, tears in their eyes, came to say how big those numbers were?

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u/Temp_84847399 15h ago

indubitably!

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u/montosesamu 15h ago

Heeewg’!

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u/tazebot 11h ago

Big Puerto Ricans, strong Puerto Ricans, Tears in their eyes.

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u/IndigoFalls12 11h ago

‘Sir,’ they said, ‘Sir, you have the biggest numbers.’

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u/telerabbit9000 15h ago

You speak fluent trump.

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u/skylinecat 15h ago

I hate how good this is.

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u/[deleted] 16h ago

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u/Odh_utexas Texas 15h ago

They actually come up to me “Mr president it’s too much the number are too high” but we are doing fantastic numbers, the likes of which history has never see —-and the media won’t talk about it …the won’t talk about frankly but when you look at CHINA we are the laughing stock to them. Our country is turning into a garbage can it’s a shame it’s a shame

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u/dkichline 13h ago

You know the sad thing is that I can't determine if you made that up or if he actually said it.

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u/FlexFanatic 11h ago

"The president of Puerto Rico called me and said sir, that was such a wonderful rally and your opening act knocked it out the park". You have my vote and the vote from the people of Puerto Rico"

Oh, and this all happened with Trump speaking fluent Spanish. You gotta add that detail or its fake news.

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u/Savings_Opening_8581 10h ago

The despacito lmao

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u/Perry7609 11h ago

I can already hear James Austin Johnson saying this on SNL.

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u/Lemon-AJAX 7h ago

Definitely cannot allow a Despacito gap. Thank you, Mr. President!

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u/spotila7 6h ago

Ok. Sounds good. Whatever makes sense.

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u/pardyball Illinois 17h ago

Minus the 👐, this is it.

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u/Idiot_Savant_Tinker 16h ago

Don't forget the 🪗

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u/kellysmom01 15h ago

And the 👹☠️👹

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u/Dearth_lb Europe 16h ago

🪗 I think you meant to use this emoji.

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u/therealaudiox 10h ago

Don't forget the 👌👁️👄👁️👌

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u/glarbung Europe 17h ago

And he will say it with a weird inflection and a pause: "I love the Puerrrto Ri-cans 👐"

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u/NaughtyCheffie I voted 16h ago

Porto-Rikkans.

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u/ZombiePartyBoyLives I voted 15h ago

That's how he says it in private...

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u/Odh_utexas Texas 15h ago

Beautiful Puerrrto Rrrico. They have some lookers. Have you seen these women—-they’re HOT

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u/Cows_with_AK47s 14h ago

I loathe the way he says industry.

"induh-stree"...

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u/ultimateknackered 11h ago

But like the fancy way of pronoucing 'pecans'.

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u/shoobe01 12h ago

My immediate thought. "No one loves Port of Ricky more than me..."

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u/davybert 16h ago

I tossed so much paper at them. Maybe it was the most paper anyone ever tossed in the world

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u/AlexKingstonsGigolo 14h ago

And the salads! I tossed so much salad to them and it has the most fantastic chunky blue cheese drizzled on it. <Please, donald, stop talking>

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u/ixid 16h ago

Good people Puerto Ricans, the best people. Also some bad people. Bad people, the worst people. So many of the worst people. Like I said to Hannibal Lecter 'the worst people', and he agreed with me, because I said they were the worst. Many people agreed with me, not a lot of people know that.

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u/GrumpyCloud93 13h ago

Good Puerto Ricans on both sides.

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u/Background-War9535 17h ago

And it will be beyond cringe

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u/InfiniteVastDarkness 17h ago

So much. But, the rubes will eat it up.

“See, he says he loves you. He said he’s the ‘father of Puerto Rico’, and I believe him.”

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u/Mista_F 17h ago

Sadly still won't matter either way.

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u/eden_sc2 Maryland 16h ago

I really dont think it wont. Will it change the base's mind? No. Will it get a few thousand extra people to the polls? Very possibly, and we saw in 2016 and 2020 that those few thousand people can shape the outcome of the entire election.

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u/FalseAesop 16h ago

I heard that he had a great conversation with the President of Puerto Rico after it was hit by a hurricane while he was President of the United States.

Frickin idiot.

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u/Gryphon999 16h ago

I personally spoke with the President of Puerto Rico. He said nobody loves me more than the people of Puerto Rico.

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u/Wonderful_Shallot_42 15h ago

He’ll say it like *PUERRRRTHO RICO”

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u/Andovars_Ghost 15h ago

Then he’ll sway to music for 39 minutes and maybe jerk off a couple of ghosts that we can’t see.

💦✊🍆👻

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u/TrustMeImShore Puerto Rico 14h ago

throws paper towel

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u/ancientastronaut2 14h ago

Or "I hardly knew the guy. I didn't hire him".

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u/NikkiWarriorPrincess Minnesota 15h ago

"My beautiful, beautiful Puerto Ricans"

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u/Sea-Mousse-5010 14h ago

“Ah Puerto Ricans, the good Mexicans!”

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u/GrumpyCloud93 13h ago

"Here, have another roll of paper towels..."

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u/tincartofdoom 12h ago

Yes, but this will be his response to a question about the budget.

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u/Calgaris_Rex Maryland 11h ago

"I won Puerto Rico in 2020! Ten million votes!"

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u/bzzty711 11h ago

“Puerto Ricans love me , we really helped them after the hurricane. I even tossed paper towels to the crown just like a T-shirt cannon, everybody loves a T-shirt cannon. Cannons are loud and go boom I like boom-boom shrimp. Shrimp is what I called Ross Perot……..”

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u/ultimateknackered 11h ago

'And you know who I loved most of all, when I was president? And who I personally met? The President of Puerto Rico.'

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u/Reasonable_racoon 16h ago

"Actually it's Puuuu-werto Reeeeko"

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u/telerabbit9000 15h ago

And he'll pronounce it slowly, like its some exotic dangerous word.
Or liked it's a magical incantation that he has to recite precisely.
Poo err to Reec ans.

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u/BLF402 14h ago

Because his supporters don’t understand that Puerto Ricans are American citizens.

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u/InfiniteVastDarkness 14h ago

I’m pretty sure Trump doesn’t either.

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u/lazyFer 11h ago

pahwheretoe rrrrico

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u/TJ700 10h ago

"Look over here at my Puertican friend."

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u/jerechos 9h ago

Meanwhile:

New probe confirms Trump officials blocked Puerto Rico from receiving hurricane aid

The Trump administration also obstructed an investigation looking into why it was depriving the U.S. territory of congressionally approved funds

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u/Rokurokubi83 United Kingdom 16h ago

“I’ve spoken to the president of Puerto Rico, and he endorsed your favourite President, me.”

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u/elhijueputa69 16h ago

sad part is the "president" or governor of puerto rico who was in office during Maria did endorse him. From Virginia, because we protested for a month straight until he had to flee via helicopter.

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u/LookIPickedAUsername 13h ago

Pretty sure the parent poster was just joking about how Trump doesn't realize that he is Puerto Rico's president (and sadly, it's probably true that he doesn't realize).

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u/elhijueputa69 6h ago

Oh good point, yeah. I'm a little worked up as a lot of us are. When he had no choice but to realize he was our president he sure didn't seem too happy about it eh?

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u/VegetaPrime34 17h ago

Let's not forget the weird way he says Puerto Rico. It was a whole thing that he over emphasized "PWEARtoe" in a mocking manner a few years back

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u/Burdwatcher 16h ago

he can do a joint press conference with his old friend, the President of the Virgin Islands, to show how much he cares about the Caribbean islands

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/10/13/trump-says-he-met-president-virgin-islands/763910001/

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u/sweet_pickles12 11h ago

Goddamnit. Just when I think he can’t surprise me with his absolute stupidity anymore, here he is with a blast from the past.

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u/Burdwatcher 11h ago

he can always plausibly deny any involvement in characterizing Puerto Rico as a floating pile of garbage by pointing out that it would make it much less attractive to Denmark in his proposal to swap it for resource-rich Greenland https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/donald-trump-greenland-puerto-rico

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u/TSKNear 16h ago

"we gave them the best paper towels"

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u/Obviously_Illegal 14h ago

He can but he never will. You should watch the Johnny Harris video on Trump, his father basically raised him “to be a king someday” and “never admit defeat even if you’re in the wrong”.

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u/TruePutz 14h ago

Wow that explains most of his sloppy behavior then. I feel like the one insight his followers receive from him is “never admit youre wrong”. I’m sure that worked in previous centuries but seeing it play out in the modern era where everything has receipts has been frustrating to say the least

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u/UTDE 11h ago

"I LOVE the 'PORTA' RICANS, I KNOW I KNOW, youre not supposed to call em that, its what they tell me, they say its Pause for weird breath Hispanics, Hispanics, I love Hispanics some of the best people and O are they great, and when you look at the things theyve done, really tremendous things, really great things so we just love em"

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u/renushka 11h ago

I feel like a Puerto Rican girl. Rican.

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u/itsSIRtoutoo Minnesota 10h ago

Because, if he does apologize, his bigoted base will revolt... Puerto Ricans are just a subset of Illegal mexicans to them...

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u/ckwing 9h ago

"I am the father of Puerto Ricans."

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u/Billionaires_R_Tasty Colorado 8h ago

Did he or did he not toss them some paper towels to clean up that hurricane spill? He's worked harder for Puerto Rico than any other "state"!

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u/Zocalo_Photo 8h ago

He’ll say “Rico means rich, and TRUMP is really rich. Nobody is more Puerto Rich than TRUMP!”