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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat. A. Godawful. Gaudy. Mess.
I guess we shouldn't have expected anything else of Trump.
From the typically disreputable looking Trump rally audience, to the preening functionaries (with Mark Meadows' wife even having him take her lipstick out of an inner pocket of his jacket so she could do a quick touchup), to the history-blind president reading a speech warning of something he couldn't pronouce (totalitarianism) and listing accomplishments of great presidents which he probably had known little of before, to a horrible mishmash of music with a clumsily overdone fireworks show, to the worst rendition of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" that I've ever heard (though the band and singer were good).
With President Tiny Hands shaking his tiny fists in the air from time to time.
The best part of the evening was watching to see if the breezes could finally take apart Trump's ridiculous imitation of hair.
Unfortunately hair spray and hairpins held their ground, or scalp, but not before we got a few glimpses of a pink pate above the mask of bronzer.
I wonder how much that badly produced hours-long Trump campaign rally and commercial cost American taxpayers?
2naSalit
(86,610 posts)About two minutes of it with the mute on. I did watch about an hour or so of the protest live feed, though. That was interesting.
highplainsdem
(48,976 posts)Honestly, if I used drugs, I probably would've wondered if I was hallucinating some of it.
But I didn't even have a drink till I got through watching all of it.
Now I may be up much of the night drinking...
Skittles
(153,160 posts)(I can never bring myself to watch that hateful bastard)
highplainsdem
(48,976 posts)were very competent.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)no need for that, for sure
highplainsdem
(48,976 posts)felt the arrangement was butchered.
The ones who loved it apparently loved everything else about the evening. So I have to question their taste.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)in the background on YouTube, slowed down to keep cadence with his speech, and thought it was well done. As a production.
Trump's use of the Battle Hymn to get authoritarians righteously marching and fighting fellow Americans for their god and president is appalling and contemptible. They know they're a minority, and because they can't win free and fair elections are eager to overthrow what they pretend to honor.
highplainsdem
(48,976 posts)more traditional arrangement of the song, behind Trump's speech. Not tonight's performance.
I agree the video is clearly meant ot get authoritarians marching in the civil war Trump seems to be trying to start.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)It doesn't include the Hymn performed at full crescendo when Trump finished speaking, or whenever, which I assume it was?
As we know too well, Trump's desecrated the Battle Hymn to his subversive message on a number of occasions.
highplainsdem
(48,976 posts)actually delivering the speech. Someone decided adding a recording of the song, one that wasn't made tonight, would help that video.
The Battle Hymn performance I'm referring to in the OP, the one with the odd arrangement, was after Trump's speech.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I'll watch for the true version. Thanks.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)It is live. I prefer that, no additions, even in reruns.
highplainsdem
(48,976 posts)misanthrope
(7,417 posts)Movements for the syllables.
highplainsdem
(48,976 posts)He's so pathetic.
Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)it creates.
aggiesal
(8,914 posts)this is Coronafest Mt. Rushmore
And I don't mean Corona Beer.
denem
(11,045 posts)As ugly as the man himself, and the pile of rubble in front of Mt. Rushmore.
TheBlackAdder
(28,194 posts)wnylib
(21,456 posts)Surprised it wasn't Dixie.
True Blue American
(17,984 posts)Battle Hymn Of Republic. He is as insane as those cheering him.
wnylib
(21,456 posts)here said it was played at the rally.
highplainsdem
(48,976 posts)True Blue American
(17,984 posts)I just tuned in to CPAN on the rerun. That is what Trump was saying, They died singing The Battle Hymn of Republic. Such a bunch of twaddle and the audience was middle aged white people.
The fireworks display was pretty sad, not much.
LeftInTX
(25,324 posts)It is upsetting because of the location, (former Native American site) but I thought it looked cool coming out of the heads of Mt. Rushmore. It thought they were well done. I believe this was an official WH event and not a campaign event (military band present)
What can I say?
Raine
(30,540 posts)with Trump's peeps and it will probably help bring out his base enthusiastically in November.
highplainsdem
(48,976 posts)LeftInTX
(25,324 posts)Everything else was a shttshow.
crickets
(25,979 posts)That truly would have been the rancid cherry on top of the shit sundae.