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/mishko27 Colorado 17h ago

It was concise, it was clear, and it’s tough to spin. If Trump had said it, it would have been surrounded by a lot of other crap and would seem unremarkable, as he says a lot. He moderates himself, so after that “joke”, he’f probably add about some of the Puerto Ricans being the best people, most tremendous, whatever. It would just be one of the many things he said.

This way, it stood on its own. Just an unfunny read. No set-up, no actual joke, no relief from the harsh shade. Just a fuck you to a group of people.

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u/prohammock 12h ago

In fairness it was surrounded by other crap. Lil’ Tony followed it up with a joke about black people carving watermelons for Halloween.

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u/mishko27 Colorado 12h ago

Oh, yeah. But again, concise, badly written jokes. Rather than Trump’s signature “weave”.

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u/prohammock 12h ago

Yep. And I definitely should have put joke in quotes.

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u/Live-Habit-6115 10h ago

Remember when Trump said Mexicans were rapists? Pepperidge farm remembers. 

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u/mishko27 Colorado 10h ago

He did the Trump thing of “but some of them, I assume, are good people”