Trump says that he tore up his speech and will take .......

[imanamerican63]

a softer approach, citing a strong message of unity.

I just don’t see that happening? Especially after 9 years of hate filled rhetoric and pathetic behavior along with many lies. Ever since he came down the escalator, he has been in a constant state of denial and has never been able to speak the truth.

Call me naive but he is not one to change his words! He blames others and the arrogance is going to be over the top. He might sound somber in the beginning, but once he is gets going? He will go back to his original form.

As he says “WE WILL TO SEE”?

[mucifer]

1. Problem is lots more people will be watching him and he knows how to hypnotize the masses. he's

gonna call himself a god because the bullet almost killed him but didn't.

[bdamomma]

2. What's that saying

"a leopard can't change its spots"

No disrespect to leopards.

[GreenWave]

10. And no disrespects to spots either, right?

[bdamomma]

13. Aww......

Them included!!!

[claudette]

3. Just

give him a chance. He may not have become completely reformed but any improvement is better than none They’ll be plenty an opportunity to criticize him if he lied.

[Eyeball_Kid]

35. Oh, yeah. We need a kinder, softer dictator. n/t

[claudette]

43. No

We don't need HIM at all! I was just trying to be kind.

[Vinca]

4. It's just another schtick for him. Tell the people what they want to hear. In the background he's

probably telling his violent followers to arm up and get ready to kill us all.

[claudette]

6. Are you sure?

Coming close to being killed must certainly have SOME effect on a person. Even him. As much as I can’t stand him.

[Vinca]

17. As they hauled him away he had his fist in the air and was yelling "fight, fight, fight."

The only thing it will matter to Trump is he'll have a new fund-raising ploy and rake in millions from the suckers.

[claudette]

23. So?

That's because he's an arsewhole to yell "fight, fight, fight!" Getting shot is not something one experiences without SOME effect.

[58Sunliner]

28. To me, it's a mistake to apply rational to a mentally compromised individual.

Trump was golfing the next day. Many of us would not feel safe.

[claudette]

44. He may have

felt safer since Secret Service security was probably amped up.

[edisdead]

33. I am sorry but this is beyond naive.

[claudette]

45. It's naive?

Have you ever been shot?

[Deminpenn]

24. The cultists who dominate the convention don't want

a unity speech, they want the hate and grievance filled rhetoric.

[Cattledog]

5. Trump will be reading a prepared script off of a teleprompter.

He will play the martyr and leave the attacks to others...for now.

[Funtatlaguy]

18. This. They won't be his words.

[DFW]

7. You have to understand his words in his own terms.

So now he will tell his followers to come at us with handguns and baseball bats instead of assault rifles.

THAT is a Trump “softer approach.”

[Emile]

8. Con man always conning

[Eyeball_Kid]

37. Trump will be having some serious PTSD issues that will be mixed up with denials.

Does he realize that he was an inch away from getting his head blown off? And he's golfing the next day? This is not the sign of a courageous person. It's the sign of serious disturbance. It's also an indication that he's consciously learned NOTHING from the incident, except that he'll take advantage of the sympathy that his fans feel for him. Translation: MONEY.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Oh, I can see him changing his rhetoric.

There was dissension within the Republican party. i.e. There was the group that wanted to tone down the anti-abortion position, at least up to the election, because they know it guarantees that the other side will vote against them.

They know they have gone too far and have lost the Independents. Now they're going to reel it back in and say things they don't really mean. GW did the same thing, and people thought he was going to govern from the center. He faked them all. So will Trump.

[Think. Again.]

11. Even he can see his tired schtick isn't having the same affect anymore.

[MOMFUDSKI]

12. There is only one reason he would say

sometimes like this. They know they are losing the election AGAIN. All bolony. A leopard doesn’t change its spots. But nice try clown guy. Pfffft

[gab13by13]

14. There is another reason,

Magats are pushing the notion that both sides need to tone down the rhetoric, so when Democrats say that voting for TSF will end our democracy that will be considered hate speech, terroristic. TSF is saying tone it down to any criticism that he gets from Democrats.

This has nothing to do with him actually toning anything down, he figures the MSM will allow him to continue his rhetoric while attacking Democrats who say anything at all bad about him.

Thinking that TSF learned a lesson is a giant leap of faith. As they were dragging him off the stage he was fist pumping and yelling "fight" "fight."

[BoRaGard]

15. A new line of bullshit

They are trying to hide Project 2025 -- and so will continue to lie about it, try to get voters to look elsewhere.

But it's all a lie. As usual.

[Quiet Em]

16. Trump is incapable of behaving civilly

He is incapable of speaking without insulting, offending, demeaning or saying something crazy.

Not sure why the media believes they can wipe his slate clean and start over because it simply won't happen.

[machoneman]

27. True, true and all the time.....true!

[Shrek]

19. He changed course and decided to let Nikki Haley speak

So apparently there's been a strategic decision of some kind.

I wonder if that combined with some measure of tone-softening is an attempt to reach whatever fence-sitters are left (though I can't believe there are very many).

[gab13by13]

22. Having Haley speak will allow Magats to claim the theme of unity in the party,

Magats want never Trumpers to come back.

[Red Mountain]

20. He WILL change his theme to a unity theme......100 % guaranteed

Unity under Trump who is the only one who can save you. From, you know, bad things.

He's going to get a lot more messianic. Believe in him and you will be saved.

[maxrandb]

21. Oh, so we'll no longer be "marxist, fascist, degenerate scum killing babies after their born...and

(checks notes) who need killing"???

Is he no longer calling for "military tribunals" for his critics?

Is he ready to accept the legal verdicts juries and judges have convicted him of?

Fuck him!

He promoted, encouraged, enabled, excused and glorified political violence from the day he was fucking hatched from his lizard egg. His fucked up psychopathic family groomed him from infancy to be a fucking psychopath.

If anyone thinks he's fucking sincere about anything he says, somewhere, there is a fly with no wings that would like to have a word with you.

[lark]

25. Folks, batten down, this is going to be a rough couple of weeks.

tcf will get a bump from the convention, it always, always happens and we will be subjected to lots of incomprehensively stupid ideas. It's going to be torture, especially with all the rw ads that will be foisted on us. Things change! By August, his bump will be over, he will be back to the screaming, raging lunatic he is at heart and then the Dems can have a great convention and flip the script.

[58Sunliner]

34. Agreed. They were never going to actually do the Nazi salute onstage.

They will get a bump.

[BoRaGard]

26. Bible Study taught me about The Great Deception

The G.O.P. has opened wide, and swallowed the whole load.

Tragic.

[0rganism]

29. Ah, messages of Strong National Unity, what could possibly go wrong?

Let us not concern ourselves with such trivial differences such as the fate of democracy and the rights of various humans. No, we must bind ourselves together in an unshakable national fabric, uniting under a singular strong leader to cast out the impure vermin from our Great country!

Damn that second TSF term is gonna su-uck.

[Eyeball_Kid]

40. Yeah. National Unity. Now let's move on to Project 2025. n/t

[58Sunliner]

31. He knows the election is not in the bag so he is trying a different tactic.

He can't tell the truth so it will be a lie. What he is going for is a lie that can't be readily proved, and the media to give him the benefit of the doubt. Lot's of ways this could play out.

[ecstatic]

32. And we wonder why so many people are saying the entire thing was staged

I have a very hard time believing this new kinder, softer tRump thing.

It's just a ploy to get more ratings.

[Eyeball_Kid]

42. So... Trump can't be trusted? Hmm....

There's an evolving theme here.

[Wounded Bear]

36. I don't see getting wounded as something that will change trump's personality...

and lightly wounded at that. Maybe if he was put in a coma for a few weeks by the incident, but after that event any "changes" he makes to his speeches will be more fakery IMHO. Someone who has been a con man his entire life seldom reforms, he just finds a new con.

Let him show a "softer, kinder side." It'll piss off his minions and it won't convince me to vote against him.

[Emrys]

38. I'll be amazed if he doesn't reprise his "Fight! Fight! Fight!" schtick and clenched fist

The (inadvertent?) Nazi salute that followed may get cut.

[Deek1935]

39. Um, yeah right. He's a malignant narcissist pathological liar. It's hardwired. He's not changing anything. He's sick.

[spanone]

41. He never wrote a speech in his miserable life.

[Mountainguy]

46. The MAGA base 8snt interested in unity

Going softer will probably just turn them off.

[Ms. Toad]

47. If he does, his cult won't tolerate it.

And he'll soon be back to normal (at least to what is normal for him).