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https://www.politicususa.com/2020/07/02/trump-cancel-convention.htmlPosted on Thu, Jul 2nd, 2020 by Jason Easley
Trump To Cancel Jacksonville Convention To Avoid Being Humiliated
Trump is expected to cancel his relocated Republican convention in Jacksonville, FL because the Trump campaign is trying to avoid another humiliation.
Gabriel Sherman of Vanity Fair reported:
According to a Republican working on the convention, the campaign is now preparing to cancel the event so that Trump doesnt suffer another Tulsalike humiliation. They probably wont have it, the source said. Its not going to be the soft landing Trump wanted.
With the coronavirus raging through Florida, a one-third capacity turnout would have been a big number for Trumps acceptance speech. Trumps rallies have long been used as an ego-boosting tool, and now that his own incompetence has taken them away, Donald Trump has nowhere to get his cult leader fix.
Jacksonville didnt want Trumps convention, and it looks like holding any sort of convention with people attending will backfire on him as the US is setting daily coronavirus case records.
The man who relies on rallies to measure his success had to cancel his acceptance speech because it would have resulted in a fresh round of humiliation.
The script is being written for a perfect ending to the presidential days of Donald Trump.
Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)This is funny, it should be because of the devastation this pandemic continues to cause, but this is just the perfect karmic slap in the face for Trump given how much of a child he was over N.C. not being willing to hold an in person convention.
KPN
(15,585 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)If he had read his PDB's he could have followed the instructions left by the President Obama administration for controlling an epidemic. He could have had supplies prepared (instead of allowing Jared to stockpile them for profit). So, he did his usual "job", kept tweeting and golfing, making up dumb nicknames for people and here we are. Because of Covid-19, stores closed, jobs were lost, long lines of people were looking for food. All because of this irresponsible, unqualified bloated ass. Now he is trying to find someone else to blame. Poor Donnie, he has shown himself to be the "loser" he knows in his heart that he has always been. Now the entire world knows it. Unfortunately, many good people lost their lives. Others will be affected for life. How can anyone vote for a failure of this magnitude?
KPN
(15,585 posts)RKP5637
(67,030 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)chriscan64
(1,789 posts)Unless his house winds up being in Russia.
klook
(12,134 posts)Tell him there'll be lots of bikini-clad models there.
Then when his one-way ticket has transported him there, he'll find he's in charge of monitoring radioactive leakage.
The U.S. put nuclear waste under a dome on a Pacific island. Now its cracking open. - Washington Post, May 20, 2019
wnylib
(21,146 posts)Or with an active volcano.
cureautismnow
(1,675 posts)Bikini Atoll works for me.
machoneman
(3,951 posts)miscreants, KKK members, Nazi affiliates, his sons, SIL's and daughter, and a few republiscum governors to go there too.
Party! It'll be a blast....hah!
wnylib
(21,146 posts)under rising sea levels.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)Alacritous Crier
(3,802 posts)rusty fender
(3,428 posts)usaf-vet
(6,092 posts)It only seems fitting. Considering the cool aide addicted cult needs to comfort each other.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)A lot of sports stations are filling time these days showing replays of games. I foresee Trump resorting to replays of his pre-pandemic rallies before very much longer. It's a bad idea, but don't tell him.
HotTeaBag
(1,206 posts)I've got to believe he already watches them alone over and over in the White House theater.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Cancelled sounds bad, but they couldn't get it off the ground, leaving from my marina.
A few of the 'dead enders' are still trying, but I've seen a shit ton less of trump flags on the water than before.
jaxexpat
(6,701 posts)They're not too clever when it comes to optics around here.
Was the event you refer to at Julington or Ortega? Doctor's lake? I hadn't heard about it at all.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)the experts' recommendations he'd get to have a rally every day and a perfect convention with more balloons than anyone ever, but if he didn't he wouldn't.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)I think theyll still go through with it.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Some of his bigger donors are missed because they gave $$$ for Charlottesville,
he pulled out of there, and now asking for $$$ for Jax.😡
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Typical trump. Bankrupting others for his entertainment.
fierywoman
(7,641 posts)He can welcome his deplorables to his "home".
central scrutinizer
(11,616 posts)At his resorts. They are just disposable pawns.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)proclaim victory! Go on the christofascist speaking circuit and see if he can find a sucker to ghost write another book for him. Proclaim victory some more and blame everyone in recent memory for betraying and letting him down.
Schadenfreude, Sweet, Sweet Schadenfreude
jaxexpat
(6,701 posts)He could do the Hip-Hop version.
Music Man
(1,181 posts)The NFL modified their draft to a fun, virtual format. It was a rousing critical and viewership success. Democrats are going to creatively use television and on-line media, and instead of treating the current circumstances as an obstacle, use them as an opportunity.
This is what Donald Trump and company still don't get. They're in the world of wishful thinking. They're trying to force a round peg in a square hole, even though the realities of the virus and the logistics in cities across America continually make it clear that big, uninhibited events will not be happening this summer or fall. They'll fail to plan for an alternative because their ignorant, dualistic nature will not allow them to see any options other than convention and no convention, before it's too late.
Biden's team is smart enough to know when to just try for the field goal. Trump's team is at 4th and 35 in their own half the field, and they're going for it!!!
BarbD
(1,190 posts)and well said.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)It might be, or moved again, but they'll have to do something to save face besides just call the thing off. They could do it remotely like the Dems are planning, but that would be admitting the virus is real.
Music Man
(1,181 posts)I suspect their hand will be forced less by what's happening in the city of choice and more by the fact that delegates from across the country would have to convene for such an event. A convention is not a rally where any old schmo can come, like in Tulsa. Many delegates may be reluctant to come for health reasons (even though many of them are happy to sacrifice someone else's health so their favorite businesses can be open). There may be travel restrictions too regarding certain states. Even if they wanted to plug ahead with a Jacksonville rally or whatever, issues with delegates may make for a less-than-full arena, and Trump can't stand that.
keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)Moved again. A large field, a large wooden cross and some kerosene.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Not for public health and safety, but for Dimwit's hurt feelings.
sop
(9,945 posts)Still, I won't believe Trump's occupancy is really over till they show a close-up of his tear-stained face as he's being led out of the White House in handcuffs, orange makeup streaming down and staining his long red tie, whimpering uncontrollably. Then it'll be done.
Luz
(769 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)❤️ ~❧~✿~❧~✿~❧~✿~❧~✿~❧~✿~ ❤️
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,410 posts)that one of the few remaining tools that Trumpy-Boy has to perpetuate his lies to his base is being eliminated by the virus and pandemic that Trumpy-Boy himself largely created. So he CAN'T get his ego-jollies anymore because he royally fucked up on his COVID policy.
Next, Trumpy-Boy will get desperate with Twitter, and hopefully, Dorsey will grow a pair of balls and cut Trumpy-Boy off Twitter. That will leave our Golden Boy without rallies, and without his toxic brand of tweeting. Without those, he'll have no way to dominate the news cycle.
cos dem
(895 posts)They could hold the whole thing off shore.
Then, when it's over, we can refuse to let them into port.
I like the numbers better without them.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,267 posts)KS Toronado
(16,901 posts)on the ship for 21 days because they didn't social distance, wear masks, or wash their hands.
It would be fitting since he didn't want people with the virus coming ashore to get to a hospital to save
their lives. Looks like he could reap what he sows.
: popcorn :
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)especially if he doesn't leave and calls for armed support.
keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)azureblue
(2,129 posts)would involve tar, feathers, a rail, and the largest crowd ever in DC singing nah, nah, nah, nah, hey, hey, goodbye
central scrutinizer
(11,616 posts)[link:|
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Been daydreaming about this since day 1 of this misadministration.
Tetrachloride
(7,721 posts)If he cancels, so be it.
Don't count your chickens until Joe Biden is in the big chair in January.
Focus. GOTV.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Zorro
(15,691 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)I foresee a YUGE amount of humiliation in his future from this point on. It's small comfort, but I'll take it.
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Mike Pence and the Cabinet 25th-Amendmenting Trump to a rubber room at Walter Reed Army Med Center. Trump is soon to enter his Most Dangerous Phase, when he has literally nothing left to lose.
Cozmo
(1,402 posts)No reputable convention planner has to cancel a convention TWICE for lack of attendance.
Hekate
(90,189 posts)Damn, that moment of Schadenfreude felt good.
IronLionZion
(45,254 posts)I bet Jacksonville told them to go screw themselves like Charlotte did
OverBurn
(935 posts)The Orange Idiot still has a 41% approval rating. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
We are a country made up of so many fucking morons it's staggering. With gerrymandering, election hacking, voter suppression this is not a done deal. Be afraid, be very afraid. Vote! Vote! Vote!
My life goals are now to live long enough to see, Trump voted out and leave the White House, watch him convicted of several crimes, including treason, go to prison, and die painfull and penniless. His grave will have to be a secret location, so people can't piss on it.
BarbD
(1,190 posts)We are painfully aware of the reality, still, just for a moment, I'd love to see justice triumph.
MsLeopard
(1,265 posts)I never would have believed there would be a more urine soaked grave than Dick Cheneys. The last 3 1/2 years have proved me wrong. It will be Dumps.
JHB
(37,128 posts)As I recall, he has his own empty chair to stand in for the POTUS.
And this time, it'll be deserved.
NBachers
(16,999 posts)davsand
(13,420 posts)Since he and his lackeys have gone to great lengths to prop up cruise lines and airlines, why can't "his" convention be serviced by chartering jets and a cruise ship. Let them all float around in the gulf for a couple weeks. Let him enjoy 14 days of lovefest out floating around where they can't infect the rest of us. If anybody tests positive in that two week time they can ALL float around in the gulf until nobody tests positive for a couple weeks.
It's win win, IMO.
Laura
cate94
(2,797 posts)What a loser. What a hoax.
smiboy1956
(30 posts)Florida voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012 in national elections
but is controlled on state level by the GOP.
Nitram
(22,663 posts)lastlib
(22,978 posts)And there sure won't be no pesky coronaviruses to worry about.
Radiation, shmadiation--REAL "leaders" don't wear lead-lined suits, those are for p*ssies, not------
Go for it, Donnie! Make your reservations today!
Shoonra
(518 posts)It's a little tough to imagine a re-nomination of Trump absent a nominating convention. Perhaps the Republicans will opt for a zoom convention.
A nominating convention is also where the Party trots out its down-ballot candidates for some public attention. Cancelling the convention seems to mean that those candidates will lack their minute or two of TV face time,
In short, cancelling the convention doesn't only shortchange Donald Trump but it also leaves other Republican candidates - for House, for Senate, for Governor - without their moment in the limelight; a disaster for the entire Party ticket.
Is avoiding wearing face masks and social distancing worth this sort of damage to the Party?!
struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)to reduce the number that can attend that way it will look like he has alot of supporters to help stroke his wounded ego.
FakeNoose
(32,330 posts)Ya know, they have to keep out the riff-raff.
The whole purpose of having a convention is for the candidate to walk around and shake hands and meet people. So of course Chump had no intention of doing that, which defeats the purpose - why have a convention?
A private party where he gets to hobnob with wealthy admirers, THAT's what he really wanted all along. It would look so great on video, and somehow the US taxpayers will pay for it all.
Demonaut
(8,909 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)Good discussion of that possibility here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213697596
KY.........