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Javaman

(65,727 posts)
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 04:06 PM Oct 2024

Trump abruptly cancels appearance at Penn State football game

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-penn-state-football-game/

In a surprise announcement, Donald Trump's campaign said the former president had canceled his appearance at a high-profile football game in Pennsylvania on Saturday.
The Columbus-Dispatch reported Wednesday that Trump had abruptly decided not to attend Penn State's game against Ohio State.

"The University has been notified that former President Donald Trump will no longer be attending the Ohio State-Penn State football game," the university said in a statement.

A spokesperson for Penn State had previously confirmed that "a private citizen" had invited Trump to attend the game at Beaver Stadium.

The only other Saturday event on Trump's public schedule was a 4 p.m. rally in Salem, Virginia.

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that's all there was to this article.

stick a fork in the old orange fuck. he just lost Pennsylvania and I think he knows it.

good.
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Trump abruptly cancels appearance at Penn State football game (Original Post) Javaman Oct 2024 OP
Good. Any way he can disappear is good. nolabear Oct 2024 #1
I'd like to see him in a state pen. BattleRow Oct 2024 #20
I saw what you did there! R. P. McMurphy Oct 2024 #23
Amen,brother (or sister)! BattleRow Oct 2024 #25
Funnily enough ... VMA131Marine Oct 2024 #40
Heh. Gerry Sandusky could use a cell mate! madinmaryland Oct 2024 #45
run run run runaway struggle4progress Oct 2024 #2
Love it! julmur Oct 2024 #16
I must be losing it- This news about *rump shitting on all of Penn & Ohio + this video has me positively manic & giddy. NBachers Oct 2024 #34
They wouldn't let him 'inspect' the cheerleaders' locker room. louis-t Oct 2024 #3
Send Walz mobeau69 Oct 2024 #4
Probably afraid someone might shoot his ear. Emile Oct 2024 #5
Or Maybe A RED ALERT! DIAPER CONTAINMENT BREACH!! nt smb Oct 2024 #28
It was dumb to begin with Prairie Gates Oct 2024 #6
Centre County Homoudont Oct 2024 #8
But a Penn State game is a statewide event. However the students can be a bit rowdy and that is what he is afraid of. yellowcanine Oct 2024 #10
I'm Not Sure... GB_RN Oct 2024 #21
He looked and sounded terrible at his "press conference" the other day reading off paper Walleye Oct 2024 #7
Why would that TSF appearance differ from any other? Dock_Yard Oct 2024 #17
All the juice been squeezed out of that old orange. BattleRow Oct 2024 #19
I suspect Katcat Oct 2024 #33
Looks like he knows there will be a lot of protesting at Beaver Stadium. He can't handle it. yellowcanine Oct 2024 #9
"...he just lost Pennsylvania and I think he knows it." Wednesdays Oct 2024 #11
gorge himself on mickey d's LOL that's his plan nt Javaman Oct 2024 #12
Can he land his big plane gab13by13 Oct 2024 #13
The airport can take up to and including 757 size. asm128 Oct 2024 #27
Actually the Penn State football team must travel by bus Deminpenn Oct 2024 #42
Is he still using epsteins plane? Katcat Oct 2024 #32
I would love to know DENVERPOPS Oct 2024 #35
Elon Musk? nt Dulcinea Oct 2024 #50
Someone is paying a fortune DENVERPOPS Oct 2024 #53
Just his life philosophy, I would imagine. Xavier Breath Oct 2024 #37
Fingers crossed he has a conflicting appt. with the Grim Reaper Blue Owl Oct 2024 #14
MAGAis interruptis.n/t BadgerKid Oct 2024 #15
Didn't want to be booed by 80k on live tv JT45242 Oct 2024 #18
80k? Try 103k, 2nd largest stadium after Michigan's. Deminpenn Oct 2024 #43
But not all 100 k will boo JT45242 Oct 2024 #46
They'd probably all boo if for no other reason than Deminpenn Oct 2024 #48
Who cares...so tired of hearing the BS about this cretin. n/t iluvtennis Oct 2024 #22
Well I sure hope you're right, Javaman! calimary Oct 2024 #24
Thank heavens. Dulcinea Oct 2024 #26
Fellow alum here Deminpenn Oct 2024 #44
heard he was going to Puerto Rico for a couple of days of R&R rurallib Oct 2024 #29
Oh god Katcat Oct 2024 #30
Guess he was busy pulling THE BEST PR STUNT EVER /s Grokenstein Oct 2024 #31
What an idiot. liberalla Oct 2024 #41
Oh man that's big. heckles65 Oct 2024 #36
As a PSA for everyone here Katcat Oct 2024 #38
Slug, he could still make Tickle Oct 2024 #39
FTR, Trump had a rally at the Bryce Jordan Center, Deminpenn Oct 2024 #47
He gave up on winning the election months ago. Thunderbeast Oct 2024 #49
Fuck you trump you are going to lose and go to jail Klarkashton Oct 2024 #51
They are sending the gloat to Virginia and New Mexico Clearheadsam Oct 2024 #52
I'm guessing the Secret Service is relieved. Simeon Salus Oct 2024 #54

VMA131Marine

(5,271 posts)
40. Funnily enough ...
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 07:18 PM
Oct 2024

There is a PA state prison near State College: Rockview State Correctional Institution.

NBachers

(19,444 posts)
34. I must be losing it- This news about *rump shitting on all of Penn & Ohio + this video has me positively manic & giddy.
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 07:03 PM
Oct 2024

Prairie Gates

(8,186 posts)
6. It was dumb to begin with
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 04:16 PM
Oct 2024

If Penn State loses, they lose their undefeated season and probably their place in the CFB playoffs to their archrival. You wanna be associated with that? If they win, nobody in PA cares you were there, but half of Ohio thinks you're an asshole. Whoever thought it was a good idea in the first place is an idiot. He'd probably get roundly booed by Penn State students anyway.

Homoudont

(108 posts)
8. Centre County
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 04:26 PM
Oct 2024

Centre County is one of the few rural blue counties in PA. Probably wouldn't have done much good by going there.

yellowcanine

(36,795 posts)
10. But a Penn State game is a statewide event. However the students can be a bit rowdy and that is what he is afraid of.
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 04:35 PM
Oct 2024

It potentially could be a real shit show. Students are good at detecting blood in the water and they could be really raucous.

GB_RN

(3,561 posts)
21. I'm Not Sure...
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 06:20 PM
Oct 2024

That anyone has ever accused too many people in Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent’s circle of being overly bright. One exception to that however, is Herr Reichsführer-SS Stephen Miller (Q-Nazi Fuck) went to Duke (which as a master’s degree graduate of Duke, I ashamed and appalled by), so he’s no slouch by any means.

Sidebar: I can absolutely picture Miller in an SS uniform. Weasely fuck reminds me of the Nazi propaganda chief, Joseph Göbbels…but without the hair.

Walleye

(44,862 posts)
7. He looked and sounded terrible at his "press conference" the other day reading off paper
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 04:17 PM
Oct 2024

Why was he at Mar-a-Lago, it was poorly staged too that’s not like him. It looked terrible, and went on and on.

Dock_Yard

(246 posts)
17. Why would that TSF appearance differ from any other?
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 06:17 PM
Oct 2024

At every TSF appearance since 2015 ...

it's poorly-staged
he's always looking terrible
he goes on and on

Katcat

(577 posts)
33. I suspect
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 07:01 PM
Oct 2024

The worsening dementia might be the cause. I’m not a doctor but my older sister has dementia and he’s nearly as far gone as she is. And as far as I know hers has been ongoing for a couple or three years.

yellowcanine

(36,795 posts)
9. Looks like he knows there will be a lot of protesting at Beaver Stadium. He can't handle it.
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 04:29 PM
Oct 2024

Trump campaign must have internal polls showing they are cratering in PA bc of the backlash from the "PR is garbage" crap. Stick a fork in his PA chances. Someone needs to send a big bouquet of roses to Joe Rogan for convincing the campaign to put that douchebag "comedian" on stage at MSG.

Wednesdays

(22,628 posts)
11. "...he just lost Pennsylvania and I think he knows it."
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 04:38 PM
Oct 2024

So then, what's his plan now?


Other than cheating and lawsuits, that is.

asm128

(245 posts)
27. The airport can take up to and including 757 size.
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 06:51 PM
Oct 2024

So, it might not be big enough. I know it can't handle larger that need enough fuel to fly across country.
Edit - looks like TSF's plane is a 757, so I guess, in theory, it could land there.

Deminpenn

(17,518 posts)
42. Actually the Penn State football team must travel by bus
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 07:41 PM
Oct 2024

to Harrisburg airport when they fly to the west coast(now that Big 10 is the Big 18) because State College airport can't accomodate the big aircraft needed to fly them all to the west coast and back.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
35. I would love to know
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 07:04 PM
Oct 2024

what Uber Rich Republican Oligarch is financing his? (Epstein's) plane and all expenses for him using it........

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
53. Someone is paying a fortune
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 11:57 PM
Oct 2024

for that.......sure as hell Trump isn't paying a dime for anything, including all the different cities billing him......

JT45242

(4,049 posts)
18. Didn't want to be booed by 80k on live tv
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 06:17 PM
Oct 2024

It's about protecting his fragile ego.

Penn State is not the Confederacy, even if a megadonor with a press box is a degenerate racist piece of shit.

He would have been booed out of the stadium.

Deminpenn

(17,518 posts)
48. They'd probably all boo if for no other reason than
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 07:56 PM
Oct 2024

Trump security measures screwing up tailgating, pregame festivities, entry and what should be a great game.

calimary

(90,074 posts)
24. Well I sure hope you're right, Javaman!
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 06:33 PM
Oct 2024

The LAST thing we need is trump back in power - especially when he really belongs in JAIL. Or prison. He’s certainly earned it.

Dulcinea

(10,102 posts)
26. Thank heavens.
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 06:47 PM
Oct 2024

I want to watch the best college game of the day without seeing that orange maniac.

--Dulcinea, Penn State '87

Katcat

(577 posts)
38. As a PSA for everyone here
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 07:08 PM
Oct 2024

My sister has either dementia or Altzheimers but we don’t know which or what can be done. WHY? MY BIL has been in denial I suppose and hadn’t taken her to the doctor. He’s around 80 and half blind and half deaf. My sister just turned 70 the first of this month.
PLEASE if you can, make sure you have someone trustworthy in case you can no longer make decisions on your own. We are going through a rough spot with Sis because her hubby didn’t know he had to get a POA AND a MEDICAL POA. She can see doctors all day long but the only way he will know anything is if he sits in on the visit. For example, she had a brain scan a couple of weeks ago and the results are unknown to us. Husband didn’t think to listen in on the other line and I told him to call them back, put her on the phone and both of them be there listening. Frustrating as hell and I think I’m going to do the paperwork so hubby and I don’t have the same problem.

 

Tickle

(4,131 posts)
39. Slug, he could still make
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 07:11 PM
Oct 2024

it to Virginia by 4. The game starts at 12. Biden would have done it

Deminpenn

(17,518 posts)
47. FTR, Trump had a rally at the Bryce Jordan Center,
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 07:51 PM
Oct 2024

which is the campus event center and home of the basketball teams just last week.

Centre Daily Times story: https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/community/state-college/article294593094.html

The top sections of the BJC were blocked off, but the bottom section of the venue was mostly full, with what appeared to be a mix of local attendees, students and others who traveled to the event. Many stayed until the end but, about 40 minutes into Trump’s roughly 75-minute speech, some crowd members prematurely headed for the exits.

Read more at: https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/community/state-college/article294593094.html#storylink=cpy


Bryce Jordan Center capacity is 15,000, but would be less with the top section blocked off, but not sure how many chairs were on the floor.

Thunderbeast

(3,819 posts)
49. He gave up on winning the election months ago.
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 08:34 PM
Oct 2024

All efforts are now focused on state legislatures, county clerks, congress, and the hard-wired SCOTUS.

He is a criminal mobster...and always has been.

Clearheadsam

(288 posts)
52. They are sending the gloat to Virginia and New Mexico
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 10:11 PM
Oct 2024

because every time he goes to a swing state and says something stupid his polling numbers drop!😂😂😂

Simeon Salus

(1,638 posts)
54. I'm guessing the Secret Service is relieved.
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 09:44 AM
Oct 2024

They call Pennsylvania a battlefield state because people shoot at him there.

TFG's SS protection detail is about to be greatly reduced in size and scope after the election, too. He's just another ex-president. It should relatively easy to protect a federal prisoner. The sentence is going to be pronounced after he loses. 34 felony counts. And that will be the beginning.

And thanks to tfg, lots more people are targets of guys like the idiot who shot at him.

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