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77 points

He obviously isn’t driving it…

He’s riding around in the passenger seat yelling at reporters

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33 points

I bet he can’t even drive

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27 points

He’s not allowed to. Pretty sure no ex presidents are allowed to.

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New York would have been cabs, and being from a wealthy family he probably got a chauffeur or driving service pretty early on. It’s fairly likely he either never knew how to drive or has long since forgotten.

He does however, know how to drive a golf cart.

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Which raises this concern: Who was driving?

I would think that USSS would need to be driving that truck in order to fulfill their responsibility to protect a former president. But does this mean that Trump is able to pull whatever campaign stunts he wants and receive government subsidized Secret Service protection for all of it, or does he have to reimburse for security at some point?

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There is video of him almost falling over because he missed the door handle of the truck. If he cant coordinate his body well enough to open a door, then he certainly cant drive.

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32 points

He’s hanging out in the passenger side of his best friend’s ride, trying to holler at me?

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8 points

No, I don’t want you number

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7 points

No, I’m not gonna give you mine

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1 point

I don’t think he’s young enough to drive any longer.

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130 points

(psst… Biden dropped out months ago)

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50 points

Promise I won’t be voting for him.

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59 points

With all due respect to The Independent, it’s only a “total fail” if it costs him votes. And Trump voters don’t read The Independent. Trump voters think they owned the libs with that one.

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9 points

He doesn’t gain much from pandering to his own supporters. There are still some people that are on the fence, not many, but a few. People that do believe in regulation cutting but also think the President should be a role model. This will probably tip a very small number of them, which matters in a close race.

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American voting game is one of turnout.

For Republicans, they are in the minority. But their will to vote is much higher. Pandering to his own supporters encourages the get out the vote effort in ways that Democrats are simply unable to do.

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If there are any R voters left in the Trump camp who have the capacity to be disgusted, this might push more of them to vote Harris/Walz

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7 points

To be fair, if they ended up too disgusted with Trump, they are much more likely to not vote at all than they are to vote for Harris.

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6 points

That is also fine!

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According to r/conservative Biden called Trump’s supporters garbage, so Trump dressed as a garbage man to show solidarity and support for his supporters. Ro ahow he’s with them.

Which makes sense.

But to those who only get the left media it went like this: Comedian called Puerto Rico a floating pile of garbage - so Trump dressed as a garbage man.

That doesn’t make sense.

So there’s a reason Trump is currently ahead on the average of the polls. Because what he does, works… Which is incredibly good news for Republicans, and bad news for anyone else.

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17 points

I dislike this, but that doesn’t mean you’re wrong

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I dislike it too, greatly. I just wrote more about it here… And it’s upset me to be realizing this so late in the game, when there’s so little chance of changing anything.

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https://lemmy.ca/comment/12512545

I touched on it in my comment, it is definitely an attention grabber, and for Trump any coverage is good coverage. It’s still difficult for me to see how Puerto Ricans are supposed to believe Trump saying “I love Puerto Rico I’ll take care of Puerto Rico, I’ve never even heard of this comedian who led my set”, while sitting in shotgun of a garbage truck…

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Trump voters just need to be told they owned the libs to think they owned the libs. Their entire worldview is actively created on a daily basis by their political idols, and the media puppets that represent them.

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24 points

Trump in a garbage truck? Right where he belongs, well almost. He should be in the back. How did his handlers miss the symbolism here?

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It’s the one true trump train

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The symbolism is intentional. I explain in this other comment.

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