I really want to hear the room chatter that was happening 5 minutes in. Surely after like 15 the sorts of people there would have been like 'ok we're vibing with the supreme leader listening to music, this is cool too' but after 5 minutes there had to be some confused discussion that would be really funny to hear.
Watch the video on YouTube. Some in the crowd seemed to be trying to get riled up but besides YMCA the music was very mellow, very low energy. Do not trade mix tapes with Donald Trump
It's like if you went to church, and the vicar said:
"You know what? I don't fancy delivering this sermon with moral guidance. Lets just sing 10 hymns in a row."... Y'all never had that happen?
"The Lord has other plans for the service today, so we're going to continue in this state of worship."
I grew up JW, and their meetings were very structured and organized. They do sometimes show videos and such, but a congregation is organized around not one pastor or anything but a whole group of them, any of who could do the main Sunday surmon (and I have seen subs often enough). They also have "ministerial servants" who are I guess basically elders(pastors I guess?) in training, and they often handled a lot of stuff too.
Honestly? I love hymns. Especially if the congregation sings in four-part harmony. I’d probably enjoy that more than a sermon.
And everyone would be fine with it because that’s obviously what the Lord wanted him to do.
I swear the guy is just limit testing at this point
I just imagine everybody standing board stiff holding their most sincere sieg heil salute while fighting back tears of rapturous emotion while Trump sways halfheartedly to Chumbawumba for twenty minutes
He has none. The test is for the corporate news. So far they’ve been failing with flying colors.
It was life on twitch as well. I reported the stream for bigotry
How is this not an onion article. This is exactly the kind of thing the onion would post!
This was my first real out-loud laugh of the day. Cheers!
If you're a Republican Voter against Trump, but you're still going to vote Republican, then you're not really against Trump are you?
I think they mean they want lower taxes, guns, and no gay marriage, but between trump or a democrat they choose the democrat, Harris in this case.
I've read other accounts that apparently two people fainted in the crowd before he decided to play DJ? Is that real?
Everything about this story seems fake and incomprehensible
That's a misleading picture of it. Two people fainted, then paused for a bit, resumed and switched the format to having a speaker ask him questions. A couple of questions in he said "Let's not do any more questions. Let's just listen to music. Who the hell wants to listen to questions" and then wrapped up and seemed like he was done, but processed to bob to music for 39 minutes
The whole town hall is online, you can watch it yourself. Here's how he spends the last 40 or so minutes https://youtu.be/bDZgox580B0?t=7447
In all fairness I’d rather listen to music than hear this idiot talk
People are still falling all over themselves to vote for this turd; to buy a huge stars and stripes decal of him and stick it on the back window of their Ford Raptor next to their Three Percenter decal. Buy a huge flag that says Trump 2024 FUCK YOUR FEELINGS and hang it on a flagpole by the front door to their house, on the street with kids riding their bikes outside.
And there's an ever growing uncertainty about whether or not this meatball is going to actually win or not.
They don't care about Trump, he is just a symbol. Trump getting elected legitimizes what Trump represents, and that is hate.
Success in life means you have God's (AKA karma/the universe/ect) approval. Becoming the president of the US is the ultimate sign of success and therefore also the ultimate sign of God's approval.
Having someone who openly and brazenly hates the same stuff you do get elected president is more than just a sign of approval, it is like a high five from Jesus and all the angels. That means that everything awful that Trump has done or is doing doesn't turn them off of him, instead it's just the opposite. His hate filled statements, his ties to Epstein, his obvious desire to fuck his own daughter... he is open and blatant about them, but he is still "winning". And therefore, all of the awful shit he does, and has done, is something that his followers can attain for themselves.
This guy lives on the street behind me. He even has one of those garage projector things with the trump 2024 logo on it that he has up every night and a trump flag for each window of his car.
I've got two houses facing each other on my street who have been in a fascist flag competition for as long is I can remember. One of them even has an RFK sign next to his Trump yard sign. But yeah what I described above I saw on my way through a neighborhood in my small town. Its distressing!
That’s a man in need of help.
It’s both amusing and depressing to see all the rugged individuals loudly advertising what a vital subject they are.
He's trying his hand to become a disk jockey because he realized he can just call himself "DJ DJ"
no questions people, just vibes please
What a genuinely weird thing to do.
Holy shit. It took me a long time to find it, but the video is somehow even weirder than I expected. That’s disturbing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/14/trump-music-sways-town-hall/
“Let’s make it into a music.” ???? And the dog killer next to him with a huge panic-smile for 30 minutes. Local doofuses on stage now thrust into this bizarro . . . meltdown? Senior moment? Looking like they really really want to go home. Wow.
If you've ever been to bad church, that is what it feels like.
Trump is just trying to stay ahead of the game. US politics are very much vibes based. Trump is going to the next level by literally vibing on stage. Who needs a health care plan when you've got vibe. And he is genuinely weird because that's the Republican vibe, his weird vibe is appealing to his base.
It's beyond a meme now. It's just the only way to describe him.
This is the way
The context was that it was after two medical emergencies at the town hall I guess. It's still weird but there's a reason it was this derailed.
That makes no more sense than without context. A regular person would resume the town hall after the emergencies passed, or dismissed everyone. Keeping people there and playing random somes for twenty minutes is the action of a child or an idiot.
This is worse than..."Please clap," by a mile. Jeb was making a joke, but it killed his chances. This should 100% kill his chances at winning......but it won't. This race makes no sense....
So... why wouldn't he just continue afterwards, like what happens at any other public event that has isolated medical emergencies? Or even cancel/reschedule? Heh.
Just vibing.
how many musicians sending in cease-and-desist letters again?
I’m guessing it’s down to Ted Nugent and kid Rock.
Pointless waste of time. Sue him.
Can I just say I'm happy there's a section of Republicans that think he needs to go, and are actively pushing him out?
The entire party isn't a hive mind i.e sharing one mind.
Talking trash about him on X isn't actively pushing him out.
Not a big enough section. He won the primaries by so much that there might as well have been no other options.
Sort of. We forget the earliest primaries were kind of shaky, and Hayley and DeSantis came in with a lot of steam. The catch there is, if you’re anti-trump, those two aren’t much better and might somehow even be worse.
The real question is are those Republicans still going to vote for him on Election Day.
"trump is the worst. He has no ideas, he's just an awful, bigotted, racist piece of shit. Nobody likes him." "Oh. Who are you going to vote for?" "...I guess I have to vote for trump."What a time to be alive.
The problem is that a normal person can be talked into doing something not in their best interest. A narcissist could only ever be lured away to something bigger.
Fucking implode already.
This dumbass is in a statistical tie with his opponent. Blows my mind.
And the crowd stood there for hours before, waiting on him to show. Did he take any questions at all or just all his shitty playlist and fainting? This guy is pathetic.
That's kind of on them for being stupid enough to go to a trump event.
He farted in tune though
That’s so fucking weird it hurts. Like genuinely embarrassing to the point I need Shoresy to really express it.
Shoresey?
Surely you mean the Coach, I mean... theres a trash can right there.
Isn’t listening to music something that humans do?
Well, not in this particular way, no. It's like your boss call you for meeting and instead of discussing business, he listen to music 30min straight.
That... may be preferable to most meetings.
I would rather not be with the boss, but if we're meeting anyway, I'd rather it be inconsequential.
I like human music
As an elf, I wouldn't feel qualified to answer that.
His handlers must be terrified.
I dunno. If you DGAF about long-term outcomes for anyone, including the job itself, and have zero moral fiber, it's probably a pretty plush gig. That said, I'd be worried about that paycheck bouncing now and again.
Why? They have the easiest job in the world. Literally everything trump does helps him. Get convicted of 43 felonies? Alright! Massive campaign donations are flooding in! Get raided by the FBI? Alright! Back in the spotlight. Nobody has ever held him accountable for anything, and everything he does appeals to his voters.
