Trump 'glum and shell-shocked' as coronavirus pandemic cripples his re-election efforts

[Soph0571]

“Some of Trump’s advisers described the president as glum and shell-shocked by his declining popularity. In private conversations, he has struggled to process how his fortunes suddenly changed from believing he was on a glide path to reelection to realizing that he is losing to the likely Democratic nominee, former vice president Joe Biden, in virtually every poll, including his own campaign’s internal surveys, advisers said,” the report states. “He also has been fretting about the possibility that a bad outbreak of the virus this fall could damage his standing in the November election, said the advisers, who along with other aides and allies requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.”

With that in mind, the president is hoping to rev up his MAGA rallies as soon as possible in an effort to rally his base.

“The president is also eager to resume political travel in June, including holding his signature rallies by the end of the summer in areas where there are few cases, advisers said. Trump’s political team has begun discussions about organizing a high-dollar, in-person fundraiser next month, as well as preliminary planning about staging rallies and what sort of screenings might be necessary, according to Republican National Committee officials and outsider advisers,” the report adds. One option being considered is holding rallies outdoors, rather than in enclosed arenas, a senior administration official said.”

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/trump-glum-and-shell-shocked-as-coronavirus-pandemic-cripples-his-re-election-efforts-report/|]
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The petulant man baby is planning to risk covid spread at his MAGA rallies, because he craves the attention and of course he thinks this will see him through in November. Heh. I can see how that will back fire. Open up the rallies in places with few cases (if there is any such place any time soon) and that local community will be a hotspot in a hot minute. And the only determining factor for the virus showing up in numbers is that a MAGA rally took place? Trump spreading the virus and killing people, literally, not a good look for re- election prospects me thinks.

[ehrnst]

1. "hoping to rev up his MAGA rallies as soon as possible in an effort to rally his base."

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Expect more incidents of violence and harassment involving MAGATs.

[ewagner]

41. I think/fear you're right...n/t

[struggle4progress]

2. "Why didn't those selfish people try harder to stay alive? Now they've hurt my re-election chances!"

[DownriverDem]

42. trump won't accept that

he's has been killing off his own voters.

[hlthe2b]

3. We all use news aggregators and I'm not out to "get" Rawstory, but could we also recognize WAPO

by including their link as well? They were the actual original source, after all, of the original reporting and it is to all our benefit that they get the clicks as well.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-deaths-mount-trump-tries-to-convince-americans-its-safe-to-inch-back-to-normal/2020/05/09/bf024fe6-9149-11ea-a9c0-73b93422d691_story.html

[Shermann]

12. Why don't we take the WAPO story and make an unfalsifiable headline out of it!

Clicky clicky clicky please!

Rawstory is at it again.

[PJMcK]

13. Yeah, RawStory sucks

Who needs their shit on their device?

You're right, hithe2b: pay tribute to the original source since they did the hard work of reporting.

[Demsrule86]

70. I would do both...WP has a paywall sometimes the only place you can read such stories is

Raw Story...I have an online subscription to WAPO...not everyone does...RS helps get news out too.

[Nature Man]

4. Or the motherfucking asshole piece of shit

can just do his fucking job and LEAD.

But he isn't capable. Everything he ever ran, he ran it into the ground.

King Shit.

[malaise]

5. I'm waiting for the concession speech

[PJMcK]

15. Don't hold your breath, my friend

When Trump loses-- for the second time, mind you-- he will not go quietly or politely. There will not be a concession speech. It will be an angry screed, just like every other time the asshole opens his mouth/anus.

[malaise]

26. I disagree

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He'll be sent packing and will run the way he ran from Vietnam. Hopefully that CV shit will sort it out.

[AleksS]

52. Yup. He knows he has from Nov to Jan

Yup. He knows he (and enablers like Barr and McConnell) will only have from Nov to Jan to save his orange corpse from prison, so I expect a very very rough ride those months. Cornered rats are the most dangerous.

[smb]

87. Yep!

[Totally Tunsie]

81. Chump certainly had the angriest acceptance speech of all time.

An "angry screed" about how he was under appreciated and harshly treated - oh, and media, media, media isn't too hard to imagine. He's angry on a "good" day!

[Grasswire2]

88. As George W. said on that occasion...

..."That was some crazy shit!"

[Totally Tunsie]

89. GW was never more correct!

[sop]

6. And I bet no one (other than the press) will be wearing face masks at his Nuremberg rallies.

It remains to be seen how many people will actually turn out for Trump's events. I'm guessing only a handful of the most hardcore MAGATs will show up. The POS will look like a fool addressing empty venues.

[McKim]

31. I Hope So for their Sakes!

I hope so for their sakes. It is really sad how he has mesmerized these low information folks and used them to make his friends and family even richer.

[sop]

36. "Every crowd has a silver lining" - P.T. Barnum

[calimary]

50. Ouch!

[machoneman]

56. OOOHHH! Good one!

[not fooled]

47. MAGA rally

aka Covid Party.

Isn't that a thing now among the maggots?

[Squidly]

80. They will just stack the 50 or so fools that show up behind him

And just film a closeup of him. Make those 50 sign non disclosure agreements so they cant say how many were actually.there. Heck, they will probably give each one a $100 bill as a sweetener. Pipe in some crowd noise and cheering and all of a sudden he has THE BEST, MOST BEAUTIFUL RALLY EVER!!

[Chainfire]

7. Rallying his base

may make him feel better, but he is going to have to find a way to rally the few folks in the middle. That is going to be harder on him than third grade arithmetic was.

[MyOwnPeace]

32. "harder on him than third grade arithmetic was."

GOOD ONE!!!

[beachbumbob]

8. the antichrist will find a way

[Vogon_Glory]

9. I can't bring myself to sympathize

And the more the atmosphere in Agent Orange’s White House resembles that of Fulgencio Batista’s coterie just before Havana fell to the Castro insurgents, the better.

At least the Trumpies don’t have to worry about being put against a wall and shot.

[sop]

18. I was thinking more of Hitler and Eva in the bunker, or Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov family.

Batista escaped with his family, and $millions looted from the cuban people.

[Vogon_Glory]

20. Batista

I don’t believe that ex-President Trump and his circle have to worry about immediate arrest after his successor takes the Oath of Office on January 21st. There will still be time to make a run for the airport (Although I doubt Agent Orange would be welcomed in either Havana or Santo Domingo).

[RainCaster]

55. But who would have him?

Russia? Putin knows how stupid DFT is.
Saudi? The Prince only wants influence, DFT has none.
Philippines? Duterte doesn't respect a drug-dependent loser.
NK? Maybe, if he brings a plane full of food with him.

[Vogon_Glory]

65. There are nice views in the Russian Federation

Vladimir Vladimirovich could detail some obliging fellow to point some of them out—you know, that object of interest down and over there. See, that one! Just lean over and...

Oops.

[Totally Tunsie]

82. Oh my...Please don't give Chump one extra day!

He's OUT on January 20, 2021.

[not fooled]

48. At least

trump doesn't have a dog. Poor Blondi.

[Lock him up.]

72. More like el douche Benito Mussolini's cin cin with "Colonel Valerio" n/t

[lanlady]

74. I wouldn't be opposed

to an American version of what befell Romanian dictator Ceaucescu and his wife.

Melania ought to relate to that, she's from Eastern Europe.

[GusBob]

10. Well he has an out now

He can blame the virus for his loss

Think about it though, I think he was going to lose virus or not. Imagine how he would have dealt with that!

He has a sad because he is unpopular. He has a sad because he has bad ratings. He has a sad because he is losing to an Obama guy. He has a sad because he cant hold his Nazi insult festivals

He does not have a sad because Americans are dying. He is way too busy feeling sorry for himself

[Laelth]

17. +1 n/t

-Laelth

[SWBTATTReg]

24. And he's got no one to blame other than himself (but of course he won't). Extremely ...

unpopular and to boot, an extremely inept president at that (except for a few diehards (pun wasn't intended at first, but after I typed it, I thought about it, and said, yeah, include it)).

His die hard supporters will continue to show up (those that he or his cronies paid for to attend), and thus, will continue to die for his idiotic and misguided belief that he's popular, etc.

Kind of sad and pathetic that he's more concerned about his popularity vs. the CV deaths and illnesses impacting this Country. People won't forget this (his pathetic and childish behavior).

[Jedi Guy]

37. Not so sure he'd have lost if Covid-19 had never happened.

In an alternate reality where the pandemic never occurred, he might very well have won re-election. Economy was doing well (on paper, if not in practice), unemployment was down, stock market was up... those are all powerful factors working in favor of an incumbent. None of them had a damn thing to do with Trump's "leadership," of course, but rightly or wrongly, the electorate credits/blames the President for the state of the economy in the moment.

With the economy in tatters and facing the worst situation since the Great Depression, and with Covid-19 running rampant due to Dolt 45's utter failure in leadership... his prospects for a second term are not good. However, they're not zero, either. Assuming that his goose is cooked and that Biden will win with ease is a bad idea, in my opinion.

[GusBob]

39. You are right and

You are right

Maybe wishful thinking on my part
I felt those 80,000 votes he won by were gone

[not fooled]

53. And if he'd done a credible job handling the virus

his re-election changes would have been good. People wouldn't blame him for the virus emerging, but rather judge him on his response.

Even though he never deserved re-election (let alone election), the power of incumbency likely would have carried him through.

He had to really, really screw this up to torpedo his chances. And he did.

Not that with putin's help he couldn't still get installed again.

[GusBob]

57. Good points

See post 40
Wonder what Putin is up to now?
He has always been one step ahead but this virus mighta monkey wrenched his scheming

[Jedi Guy]

58. If he'd done a decent job of handling the virus, he'd be in good shape.

If by some miracle he'd risen to the challenge and handled it really well, his re-election would be almost guaranteed, I think. Of course, he's Trump, so handling anything well is not in his wheelhouse.

I think he might have been in halfway decent shape even with the job he's done... if he hadn't minimized it, claimed we had "tremendous control" of it early on, called it a hoax, proposed cockamamie remedies, etc. By downplaying it as much as he did, he screwed himself bigtime.

People can forgive a President for being wrong, but it's a hell of a lot harder to forgive a President for being that drastically wrong. Or, as in this case, for deliberately obfuscating and misleading the public regarding the true threat the virus posed.

[PCIntern]

60. Well then,

if you were writing a conspiracy novel then this would have been a remarkably creative way of getting rid of him and his criminal crew

[Jedi Guy]

63. I think he was trying to go there with his wild claims that the virus is a "Democratic hoax."

I suppose it's entirely possible that, since he got no traction by insisting that the virus originated in a Chinese lab, he might pivot and try to assert that the Democrats purposely unleashed the virus in order to boost their odds of beating him in the election. Or maybe it was the Deep State! Oh, or I bet it was Russia. Yeah, it was totally Russia. They helped Hillary in 2016, after all. Or it was the Deep State Russian Democrats, and they were in cahoots with the Reptilians and the Grays! The truth is out there!

[PCIntern]

66. Yeah. That's the ticket.

[Aristus]

11. "Glum and shellshocked."

That's how I was on Election Day 2016.

How does it feel, asshole?

[secondwind]

14. Looks like he only cares about WINNING. You'd think that he would

try to do what is necessary to keep Americans from dying.......... ugh

[secondwind]

16. He is an addict. Those rallies are HIS FIX.

[duforsure]

19. Then he will really throw a tantrum

When the trump depression comes from his and the Republicans dragging their feet , and they're stalling getting direct checks going to the people . Trumps intentionally making it all worse, and causing the spread of this virus to increase, and with pence too. Neither wear masks, or follow CDC guidelines, and watch what trump starts doing soon. He'll shut down reporting numbers to hide his failure with this virus, then claim it's great again, and all because of him. The truth will be the opposite showing more people he's nothing but a serial liar and a corrupt treasonous criminal working for Putin because he's broke and in deep debt to him. Saying people with gunning storming anywhere are good people is very telling of his intent to incite violence.

[Blue Owl]

21. Eat shit and die, trump

And please do it quickly.

[NRaleighLiberal]

22. he won't live long enough to experience all the misery he deserves

[Butterflylady]

38. That's the sad part, "he won't live long enough to experience,"

I say let him live at least 4 years in torture, just like we have.

[NRaleighLiberal]

43. if he lived 100 years more in misery it wouldn't nearly be enough

[essme]

23. I truly believe that if it looks as if he is going to lose

That he will throw a tantrum, and declare that he just cannot work with Democrats anymore-- and resign.

I think he already would have, except that he has been essentially kicked out of NYC. If he could have gone to his real home, he would have. I don't think he wants to move to FL.

[DFW]

25. Someone should explain the concept of "cause and effect" to the Donald

Please a minority to the detriment of the majority, and the majority will not be pleased.

Is it THAT difficult to grasp?

[zeusdogmom]

27. Awww, poor little man baby

Stick a pacifier in his pie hole and change his diaper. What a pathetic looser.

[bucolic_frolic]

28. The only thing slower than Trump's mind is Trump's economy

Re-opening baloney. Small businesses are paying themselves and planning bankruptcy to escape debt. Equity has no benefit in an age of total debt. Debt is the new equity, the more debt the better.

[Yavin4]

29. Trump is mentally ill and needs to be replaced.

He needs serious, long term help.

[Tink41]

30. Do the right thing

That's all he had to do, was the right thing. Probably win by a landslide. But that's ok we'll take it. Keep putting yourself first.

[Hotler]

54. That would require him to b a nice guy. He has no concept of what that is. nt.

[MineralMan]

33. Sure, Donwald. Hold some huge rallies!

Get your supporters to come out in droves to sit or stand right next to each other and chant and yell. Great idea! Do it!

I'll watch from over here.

[cstanleytech]

34. Hey why aren't they holding those rallies now? After all its a fake virus

according to Trump.

[JohnnyRingo]

35. Rally attendance will be very low.

Sure, there are those deniers who currently attend protests, but most people on both sides of the political spectrum have to be shy about large crowds and will find an excuse not to go to a rally, even one held outdoors. How much fun would it be to spread out over a large area?

A lightly attended rally is not something Trump wants to see. so it robs him of his #1 campaign tool.

[machoneman]

59. Like your thinking here. Yeah, let's show those overhead drone views of just how tiny....

the corwds may be as even those dummy MAGATS may stay home. Just like his Inauguration Day pics on the Mall. Lots of (ahem) white space!

[Totally Tunsie]

83. Nice thought, but any drones stand a good chance of being shot down.

The feds have a 10-mile restricted zone in place on the dates of Chump's outdoor activities. They might get a chance while its forming, but not of the "during".

[GusBob]

40. Question for the assembled group

What is Putin going to do to help him win?

The blame China game comes to mind

Getting into the voting machines does too

Edit: I mean specifically with respects to the virus

For instance would Putin try and fix the US economy ?

Or has Trumps disaster already accomplished his mission?

Or does Putin go for the kill now

[NRaleighLiberal]

44. we are already seeing the Biden attack strategy via Reade in full swing

[GusBob]

46. Yes of course

We would see that either way

I guess I meant specifically with respects to the virus

[paleotn]

45. He was never on a glide path to reelection...

He's simply delusional and luckily his own worst enemy.

But he could have been on a glide path to reelection, if he's listened to experts back in Dec. / Jan. and championed a competent response to Covid-19. From a purely political standpoint, the virus could have been a god send for his reelection chances. America deals with the virus in a science based, effective manner like some of our East Asian allies, while Europe and China burn. All of his past boorishness and stupidity would have been forgotten in the minds of many. But thankfully, no. He stayed true to form and caused a disaster of biblical proportions that will burn into the Fall and beyond, killing who knows how many Americans and completely destroying even the remote chances he had for reelection.

His polling looks awful now even by his own standards, and that's driven just by the daily news. Wait until the Dem election machine hits full steam and all that stored political ammunition gathered over the last 4 years, now leavened with the pandemic, is unleashed. He will lash out in his usual self destructive, idiotic manner, making the impact even worse. If anything, he's consistently stupid.

But for we Dems, this is no time to let off the accelerator. It's time to redouble and triple our efforts. This is a take no prisoners, all is fair, fight to the death and he must be completely destroyed. Not just in the swing states, but everywhere. And not just to take the White House and the Senate, but to crush his brand of populist fascism and destroy the Republican party for at least a generation. My hope is this is the beginning of the end of modern Republicans and in the coming years the party becomes a footnote in history.

[crickets]

73. +1000000

[lanlady]

75. Very well put paleotn

I would only add one thing - I hope this destroys the Trumps (all of them) for once and for all, together with the careers of their enablers.

[Martin Eden]

49. Trump, at long last, has a really good idea

Resume the MAGA rallies ASAP with his voting base crammed into crowded venues (no PPE masks, of course).

This unintentional form of voter suppression is called KARMA.

[packman]

51. Hmm- Kinda would like to see another rally

and how many of his fans are wearing face masks to it.

[Alex4Martinez]

61. Yes! Maybe a really long three-day rally in a 70,000 seat packed stadium.

Screen everyone coming in, though.

Be sure everyone is a 100% DIE hard Trump fan.

And no kids.

[Grokenstein]

62. People dying? "Meh, who cares."

"What about my rallies? I need my rallies!!"

[niyad]

64. It is always all about him. May he stroke out, the f'n sociopath.

[ecstatic]

67. These stories are designed to give Democrats a false sense of security

Who from drump's inner circle is providing this info and why?

I think it's a method of distracting us so that we don't push for election security, voting rights, and multiple safe methods of hassle-free voting (including vote by mail).

The signs and red flags are clear: He is already projecting on to Democrats his plans to cheat. He is protected by the most corrupt attorney general in modern history, which guarantees he will get away with anything he does. But he's not just relying on putin. Now we've seen drump openly call for a state to nullify election results. What will republican governors do when he calls for votes to be ignored this fall? States are allowed to ignore the popular vote and select a candidate. It turns out our Constitution is a mess, full of loopholes

[Reality Check 2020]

91. He is not going anywhere

He will declare the election is rigged. He set that up last time thinking he would lose and didn't have to use it. This time he will. He has the supreme court just like bush did. We can get in the streets and protest just like we did in 2000. The difference is this time ,the armed thugs will come out in force. The armed lockdown protest are just a trial run for post election day. Remember when Capital Hill Republican staffers stopped the legal vote counting in Florida in 2000. What they are planning for 2020 will make that look like child's play. We can talk polls and races but the fact is he is going nowhere and there is no way to get him out when he goes that route. Democracy is really in danger folks and we need to start thinking about this possibility.

[Yeehah]

68. I hope the stable genius starts holding rallies right away!

Let nature take its course.

[SergeStorms]

69. By all means, "Rev up those MAGA rallies".

I want to see MAGAts falling over each other. I want to see them hugging and kissing each other over their great leader's perfect response to the corona virus. I'm talking BIGLY RALLIES, with tens of thousands of howling MAGAts at each one!

Then I want Joe Biden's supporters to vote by mail, or social distance voting in person with all available PPE in use. That would be a fitting conclusion to corona virus discussion in politics.

[Raftergirl]

71. Donald probably could have won reelection easily

if he and his administration had actually taken steps real steps to combat CV 19 way back in January. But, he and his whole administration are so incompetent, in every department, that they were too stupid to recognize what their denials were going to cause.

Now they can’t even pivot to correcting all their dumb moves to make a difference and are just doubling down on their stupidity.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

76. "High dollar, in-person fundraiser" is a nice way of saying

tRump offers special favors and even America itself for sale to the highest bidder.

[Botany]

77. Maybe he can have "a Warden Norton moment"

80,000 now dead and closing in on 100,000 dead and 1.5 million cases.

And it is all on Donny, Fox News, and their acolytes. And don't forget
another great depression. So much winning. So big of a hoax.

From a Trump Tweet this am. "We are getting great marks for the handling of the CoronaVirus pandemic ... "

[BComplex]

78. He's playing with fire. If there was ever an almost 74-year old who was at risk, this is him.

What a fool. I hope he gets infected if he's not already. That's a hard lesson, but one he needs to learn.

Problem is, if he lives through it, he'll likely be more arrogant than ever, thinking he's god's chosen one, like the evangelicals have been telling him.

[helpisontheway]

79. Yeah rallies in those areas are a great idea..Have them gather

together and watch the numbers increase dumb@ss.

[Totally Tunsie]

84. It's said that the Lord works in mysterious ways.

Lesser known is that the Lord has a sense of humor. "When we make plans, the Lord laughs" is our go-to when chaos breaks out around here.

Chump's ratings up. Stock market up. Immigration down. Oil prices down. Impeachment incomplete. All things were heading in Chump's favor 'til the Big Guy upstairs chuckled and said "Not so fast, buddy!" BAM! He sends COVID to slam on the brakes.

[Skittles]

85. it is NOT coronavirus that is crippling him

it's his pathetic NON-RESPONSE to the virus that is hurting his chances

[Hekate]

86. He wants a "high-dollar, in-person fundraiser" in June does he? Please do proceed, sir. ...

No masks allowed. Have a banquet and let the liquor flow so it relaxes everybody's inhibitions. Don't worry about the servers, because every one of them will be healthy, right?

[SoonerPride]

90. No empathy for 80,000 dead citizens. No empathy for 22,000,000 unemployed

Just focus on himself and how rude it is for the dead and unemployed to hurt his re-election

He is so vile it is unspeakable