Trump leaves Nebraska supporters stranded in deep freeze, 7 hospitalized

[Johnny2X2X]

https://iowastartingline.com/2020/10/28/trump-supporters-left-stranded-at-freezing-omaha-airport/

President Donald Trump left several thousand of his supporters stranded at Eppley Airfield after his event in Omaha Tuesday night.

After the President boarded Air Force One and departed the state, many of the attendees, some of whom waited more than four hours to listen to him speak, stood in the freezing temperatures on a private road in the middle of the airport.

CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reported “thousands” of people were stuck in the cold more than an hour after Trump took off from the airport.
According to a Twitter account named “Omaha Scanner,” police officers located two groups of elderly Trump supporters shortly after the event ended who were struggling in the cold. One group was reportedly frozen in the cold and unable to move.

Another complaint included a call for a medic to assist a 68 year-old man who complained of hypothermia and possibly had an altered mental status.

The event itself seemed poorly planned from the beginning.

These people got to see first hand that he doesn't care if they freeze to death. Poorly planned event almost got people killed, they feel no responsibility for the safety and well being of people they brought out into the freezing cold.

[soothsayer]

1. The always welcome Blaire Erskine addresses this

Link to tweet

?s=21


Donald J. Drumpf
@RealDonalDrumpf
Thank you, Brave @blaireerskine! Please RETWEAT this important message from one of the #Omahastranded. They loved being stranded for Trump! Do not believe the FAKE NEWS! Here the reel truth! #omaharally

blaire erskine
@blaireerskine
Woman stranded at MAGA rally in Omaha says Trump wanted to teach them a lesson

[Iliyah]

4. Well I have no words, per se . ....

[Sunsky]

10. Lol

There's a thin line between parody and reality in Trump's USA.

[Liberal In Texas]

15. Good one.

Nice bit of parody.

[Johnny2X2X]

18. That is awesome!

Perfect depiction.

[yardwork]

21. She is brilliant.

[LuvNewcastle]

22. She's right, of course.

If the media weren't out there counting those sick old people, it wouldn't be a problem. I think the whole rally was just beautiful, and the only problem was the nasty reporters who had to go looking in the woods for cold people.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

28. What"lesson," like a parent who kicks child out of car and tells them to walk? - Ive thought

for a long time that at least some of these folks have a deep seated need for a mean abusive daddy for a president. Often children who grew up with abuse recreate it in their adult lives. Thats why the cultists cant really be talked out of their delusion; its happening at a deep emotional level and theres no logic that can reach them

All I can say is GET SOME THERAPY.!!!!!

[Kablooie]

29. Yep. Just what I thought.

No change! No change at all!, To quote the Twilight Zone.

[Codeine]

44. My goodness.

I guess the British are right when they say Americans don’t understand satire.

[tblue37]

45. She's a comedian. This is satire.

[tblue37]

69. Poe's Law in operation.

[exboyfil]

2. Some director is salivating over this scene

being in Trump the miniseries.

[Paladin]

3. Anybody surprised by this? Anybody at all?

The only surprise will be if trump expresses any regret whatsoever.

[durablend]

5. The only regret you'll hear from him

Is that the media is paying *any* (albeit little) attention to this and not what's important--Hunted Biden's laptop!

[central scrutinizer]

70. Buses are rolling Petri dishes

So Drumpf will say he was looking out for them. Better for grandma to walk 3.7 miles in freezing temperatures than to be packed into a virus incubator.

[mucifer]

6. suicide cult

[CurtEastPoint]

7. "altered mental status" applies to every one of these fuckers.

[Paladin]

9. +1. (nt)

[jaxexpat]

27. Yeah, that's what I thought. They found only one?

[Duppers]

47. Exactly! 👍

[smb]

8. How Perfectly Symbolic nt

[yardwork]

24. It really is.

[Johnny2X2X]

11. Perfect metaphor for his presidency

Trump leaves on a private plane while the old and infirm suffer and are left in the cold.

[Cicada]

12. The fever from the covid they caught will warm them up

[GoCubsGo]

13. So much being said in that headline...

The obvious thing is that he doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself. He doesn't care about his own supporters' well-being. Worship me, and then to hell with you after that.

But, HE'S HAVING TO CAMPAIGN IN NEBRASKA????? He's THAT desperate? Yeah, I know it's right next door to Iowa. But, the fact that he has to campaign in either of them tells one all one needs to know about the state of things.

Sadly, I don't think he's going to lose many, if any of these people's votes over this.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

30. More precisely, he's campaigning in Omaha -- Nebraska divides its electoral votes by district.

So he's really campaigning for exactly one electoral vote by visiting Omaha. Obama won the Second District's vote in 2008, but Romney won it in 2012 and Trump won it in 2016.

[The Magistrate]

14. I Have All The Sympathy For These Red-Hat Maggots They Display For Kidnapped Children, Sir

It's a damned shame it did not rain....

[yardwork]

23. Sir, they believe that Americans are too soft.

They don't want their hard-earned money going to support shiftless, lazy people on welfare. Liberals are soft and are destroying this country. Trump supporters are tough.

Where's my car?! Why aren't the buses running?! There out to be a law!

[The Magistrate]

25. I Know, Ma'am

They do not look too tough whimpering in the cold beside a highway, though. Tough birds would just shake it off and walk home....

Creme-puffs masquerading as hard-rolls provide some grim amusement at times.

[Bettie]

16. You'd think that this would

let them know that he doesn't care if they all die (after they vote for him, of course)...but they will probably find a way to spin it as him being somehow heroic.

[Mr. Ected]

17. Trump will later claim that he did them all a massive favor

As Ivanka has determined that a deep freeze over several hours is sufficient to kill the coronavirus which they surely contracted during the event.

[Bengus81]

19. LOL...took their temperature? Those idiots could full blown Covid and probably show 95 degrees

[SKKY]

20. No doubt these idiots will still happily cast their vote for him...

...probably think they're sacrificing in some sort of culture war against the left.

[cwydro]

26. I have'nt seen the media covering this at all so far.

Nor the comment about Joe.

[TheRickles]

31. Here's a link to the story in the WaPo

[link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142614827|

[cwydro]

35. Thanks!

I hope it gets some tv coverage as well.

[Historic NY]

32. Campaign forgot it props...

she really can sink to the level of the Q people

[dalton99a]

33. "I take no responsibility at all"

[bucolic_frolic]

34. Just freeze them through next Tuesday. That'll be fine. /nt

[CaptainTruth]

37. Remember when GW Bush delayed LIHEAP renewal for a photo op?

There were elderly folks who had their heat turned off & froze to death. There were also elderly folks who crowded into their local Republican party or representative's offices to protest, because the offices had heat.

And people vote for that crap ... SMDH

[bdamomma]

39. Like Covid that

keeps on taking peoples lives he just does not care about Americans period.

[Botany]

40. But Trump got their votes illegally before he left them to freeze at the airport on that cold night.

I hope anybody who was at that rally and didn't vote there remember what Trump did to them.


Nebraska GOP harvested ballots at 45's Omaha event, falsely claimed "official" ballot boxes
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214377405#post2

[tanyev]

41. OMG, killing them off with Covid delayed Trump's gratification too much?

People in fragile health should NOT be going to Trump rallies.

[LisaL]

43. As far as I am concerned, nobody should be going to Trump rallies.

NT

[llashram]

42. oh well

and I'm 70ish.

[louis-t]

46. In all fairness, the one with the "altered mental state"

had that when he got there. He is a drumpf supporter, after all.

[mountain grammy]

48. So true..

Another complaint included a call for a medic to assist a 68 year-old man who complained of hypothermia and possibly had an altered mental status.

The event itself seemed poorly planned from the beginning.

Ya think?

[kimbutgar]

49. And sadly these brain washed cult members will still vote for him next week gleefully

Did fox even report this ?

[Hotler]

50. "Look, Tom Hanks is not in charge of this thing."

[C Moon]

52. No paper towels?

[LymphocyteLover]

53. I don't really care, do you?

[Hugin]

54. I must break my self-imposed pre-election silent meditation to comment on this...

A huge exception to my policy.

HOW EXACTLY IS SOMETHING LIKE THIS NOT BEING ABSOLUTELY BLARED OUT ON THE MASS MEDIA WITH CALLS FROM EVERY BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT AND PARTICULARLY THE CANDIDATE'S OWN PARTY TELLING HIM/HER TO SUSPEND THEIR CAMPAIGN AND/OR RESIGN?

Seriously.

GAH!

:spits:

:smdh:

IOKIYAR, I guess.

That's all.

[Statistical]

57. It might disrupt the horsie race.

The singular most important responsibility of the media is to make sure there is a close horsie race on election day. Without that how will they sell ads for cheeseburgers?

[Hugin]

59. Giddy-yup.

[IronLionZion]

55. Compare that to America's last popular vote winning president catching a fainting woman

and comforting this very young supporter

[Mariana]

56. These people got to see first hand that he doesn't care if they freeze to death.

They won't blame him, though. It's never the cult leader's fault when things go wrong.

[Mr. Ected]

58. The problem, according to Obama, wasn't the freezing temperatures

It was too many thermometers.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

60. Did they bus them from parking TO event? And not FROM?

[Johnny2X2X]

61. Yes

That is correct, bussed them there where they waited for hours and the after Trump flew off no busses came to get them. Many of these folks were elderly, the 3 mile walk in the cold back to their cars was not possible.

[OverBurn]

62. From the top to the bottom, everyone involved, morons. Trumpism!

All hail Trumpism!. Evil like the Nazi's, without the intelligence.

[D23MIURG23]

63. I love natural consequences.

Too bad the people we are talking about are too dumb to learn from their mistakes.

[ffr]

65. This is proof, for these people, that global warming doesn't exist.

Right?

[Johnny2X2X]

64. You've got to slow the hypothermia testing down

The testing is causing the hypothermia.

[Blue Owl]

66. K&R

[Johnny2X2X]

67. Bus company speaking up! No pay, no masks, so the buses left.

Trump campaign told them that they would get paid when they showed up, they didn't get paid. Trump campaign told them everyone would wear masks, no one did. So they left. Good for them!