On Tuesday, President Joe Biden mentioned comic Tony Hinchcliffe, who carried out a racist set at Donald Trump’s Nazi-esque Madison Sq. Backyard rally, was “garbage.” Republicans claimed he was calling all Trump supporters rubbish and reached for the smelling salts and fainting couches—they’d by no means been so offended of their lives!
Nevermind that Trump himself has repeatedly known as supporters of his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, “garbage.”
On this wacked-out election cycle, that gaffe was at greatest a 24-hour brouhaha. However as a result of MAGA minions are nothing if not bizarre, they’ve determined that leaning in and calling one another rubbish, dressing as rubbish, and spending time round rubbish in some way … makes them look good? It’s all so freakin’ weird.
Trump kicked off the trashy development by dressing up as Lego Rubbish Man, considering that this look was in some way flattering:
Donald Trump speaks to the media at Inexperienced Bay Austin Straubel Worldwide Airport on Oct. 30, 2024.
Then Trump bought in a rubbish truck (wanting frail and outdated and virtually falling whereas struggling to clamber aboard) and drove round an airport tarmac in aimless circles, a becoming metaphor for his marketing campaign if there ever was one.
You’d assume that was that, however MAGA won’t ever let Trump look silly all by himself. In order that they sprung into motion, ensuring they’d all look silly in solidarity.
Turning Level USA’s Charlie Kirk, contemporary off screwing up Trump’s area operation but in some way nonetheless in good graces along with his marketing campaign, delivered the very best self-own within the historical past of marketing campaign speeches.
“The current president thinks you’re a bunch of garbage. Well, look around Mr. President, there’s a lot of garbage here tonight,” Kirk instructed a crowd of the MAGA devoted, and everybody cheered, as a result of who doesn’t love being known as rubbish? Nonetheless, it was good of all of them to acknowledge what they’re.
Nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient to simply be known as trash. They wished to reside the approach to life. So then this … occurred.
And it wasn’t simply the deplorables precisely depicting themselves.
Don Jr. adopted go well with.
Megyn Kelly, as soon as accused by Trump of getting “blood coming out of her wherever” for asking him a tricky query at a presidential debate, pathetically adopted the development.
In the meantime, again in the true world:
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Senior Harris marketing campaign officers say marketing campaign’s inside information present them successful by double digits amongst battleground state voters who made up their thoughts within the final week. Focus teams, officers say, present harm to Trump from Madison Sq. Backyard rally and Puerto Rico feedback.
— Matt Viser (@mviser) November 1, 2024
One aspect is aware of learn how to shut robust. The opposite aspect is closing with: “We are garbage”—and helpfully offering visuals to drive the message house.
