Trump’s tragic, rolling bluster

[deminks]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-rolling-bluster/2016/05/30/8b92a5e8-2695-11e6-b989-4e5479715b54_story.html?postshare=9061464659096916&tid=ss_tw

Donald Trump looked like a fool and a fraud on Sunday. But what else is new?

Even the most ardent Trumpistas would have to admit that Trump’s appearance at the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally was, as spectacles go, pretty pathetic. It was supposed to be a vast, multitudinous gathering on the plaza in front of the Lincoln Memorial, one of the greatest and most historic public spaces in the nation. Instead, Trump drew a paltry crowd estimated by organizers at perhaps 5,000.

As Trump might say in a late-night tweet: “Sad!”

The presumptive Republican nominee cut a ridiculous figure, sporting a red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap to guard against rogue breezes that might unhinge his comb-over. He lamented the attendance: “I thought this would be like Dr. Martin Luther King, where the people would be lined up from here all the way to the Washington Monument, right?”

Wrong. So very, very wrong.

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[Journeyman]

1. Wait a minute. The podium looked *toward* the Lincoln Monument, and Trump expected . . .

to have a crowd similar in size to that which greeted Dr King?

He seems to have trouble with spatial recognition (among a host of other shortcomings).

[cynzke]

8. THE CROWD WAS SO SMALL, THEY HAD TO......

FACE THE PODIUM THE OTHER WAY, SWEEEEEEEEET!

[SunSeeker]

2. K & R for exposure of the baffoon. nt

[marble falls]

3. "Rolling Blunder" - what happens when vets get partisan vs political. Particularly with a ....

candidate who claims to support vets while declaring his intention to cut benefits and privatize programs.

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. He's no Bernie

[ailsagirl]

5. Excellent piece written by Eugene Robinson

I'm glad you posted it-- he has some very shrewd observations re drumpf and, inevitably, more grist
for the mill. (as in drumpf really expected hundreds of thousands to turn out? I think he's got a screw
loose-- he just doesn't seem to get it)

[Wounded Bear]

6. Gene is a pretty smart guy...

I ususally enjoy his comments when I see him on the TV box.

[ailsagirl]

7. Since I don't watch MSNBC anymore...

I seldom get the chance to hear him, but I know anything he does, he does well.

Plus, he's SANE!!

[malaise]

9. Reality finally caught up with him

Trump buys his own bullshit - he has exaggerated numbers at all of his rallies and the press let him get away with his lies.

[brett_jv]

10. Don't you know Drumpf has YUUUUUUGE crowds! They're bigger than Bernie's! THE BIGGEST AND BEST ...

And anyone saying otherwise is just jealous ... and probably very fat and unattractive.

[malaise]

11. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Ah well the rolling rally turned out to be as big as his...hands