Trump says goodbye to MAGA rallies

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump has finally given up on his MAGA rallies.

After he formally accepts the Republican nomination for president Thursday night, Trump will launch a general election campaign with a new playbook: short speeches, mostly outdoors, multiple times a day, with the occasional stop at a diner or store to greet people, minus the handshakes. Many of these events, described by four people familiar with the plans, will take place at airports. Trump will fly in on Air Force One to greet crowds of no more than a few hundred people, as his campaign playlist blares and U.S. flags wave around him.

Welcome to the most unusual election season in modern presidential history — where the coronavirus outbreak has forced the most nontraditional candidate to embrace a more traditional campaign style.

“Obviously you’d love to see the president hold his signature arena rallies, but a retail politics approach could end up being a blessing in disguise,” said Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative student activists group Turning Point Action. “It will humanize him for millions of voters who either only ever see him on stage, in official White House settings, or otherwise just believe the news media’s caricature of him.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/26/trump-post-rnc-plan-400091

[3Hotdogs]

1. They're gonna "humanize" the orange asshole.

Now, that'll be a feat, even Houdini couldn't conjure.

[jayfish]

9. "minus the handshakes"

Like that? Our POS media at it again.

[Iliyah]

2. Nope . . .

He feeds on stupid and hatred . .

[lamp_shade]

3. IMO - He's just afraid of low turnout.

[soothsayer]

4. Yep

[Warpy]

7. That's exactly it

The fiasco of the Tulsa rally that wasn't has him drenched in flop sweat. He knows he won't be able to pack them in like he did in 2017. Crowds had begun to diminish even before the pandemic.

Humanizing him is not going to work, either, since he lacks the qualities they most want him to display. He won't/can't fake it, he doesn't seen any reason to try.

The problem is that up on a stage is where his fan base wanted him. They don't want him humanized, they want him set above them, someone to follow blindly, their leader anointed by gawd.

Bring him down to their level, try to make him their pal, and they'll desert him very quickly.

[brooklynite]

10. But I don't think he'll get the ego boost from small airport hanger crowds

[Warpy]

12. I know you wanted to post that picture, but that's not

what I was talking about.

Yes, he feeds on lights and roaring crowds and whipping up hate. That's who he is. However, he's also afraid right now that the crowds will be diminished so much that people will laugh at him and his handlers know those crowds will be diminished and it's a feedback loop. Those days are over.

My point is that getting him off that stage and out of the bright lights is not going to do anything for his image and will discourage the cult of personality that needed to have him set on high, remote from everyday life, their natural leader.

It's not going to work and it will be fun to watch it flop.

[machoneman]

14. But aye, aye, yigh! We get to pay for those very expensive AF1 miles he will pile up. Yikes!

[Bengus81]

8. Yep... Trump can't afford another Tulsa Train Wreck before the election

[stillcool]

24. his ego can't handle it..

even an airplane hangar is too big.

[MacKasey]

5. This is not his style

He will not get the same energy that he gets from his klan rallies

[bucolic_frolic]

6. You can take the Trump out of the Bund, but you can't take the Bund out of the Trump

There's a chance his whole schtick is petering out. What I'm seeing is

the smallest crowds ever.

[MrModerate]

11. Can they sell Parscale's Death Star for two cents on the dollar? n/t

[SeattleVet]

23. Parscale's Death Star design is slightly different than the original one...

instead of a single, stationary exhaust vent they keep moving theirs around the country on Air Force One to spew his sewage.

[sarge43]

13. Moron will be here in New Hampshire this evening

"Rally" at the Manchester airplane patch.

Even if his cultists show up, it'll probably generate as much excitement as a cow flop bingo game.

NH weather being what it is, maybe another rain cancellation. One can hope.

[greenjar_01]

15. It reads like a press release from the Trump campaign

They don't even try very hard any more.

[Tracer]

16. He's had to change his Manchester location.

He wanted to use Dartmouth-Hitchcock's hangar (where they keep their medical helicopter), but DH wanted to be reimbursed for moving the copter, since they are prohibited from making in-kind contributions to political campaigns (they are a non-profit).

I'll bet that the campaign wouldn't come up with that payment. Cheapskates.

[Nitram]

17. I'll believe it when I see it. Trump's just gotta be Trump. He can't be restrained.

[marble falls]

18. Racists are easier pandered to in small groups. That kind of monkey shines works for a ...

sheriff's election, but not in today's USA. Biden will get to more people in a TV address than Trump will in 100 meetings of a hundred racist RWs.

[louis-t]

19. Acting like they only want "a few hundred" to show up.

Just do touch and go s and he can wave through the window at the 10 people that show up at each airport.

[marble falls]

20. I won't be happy till I see him gloming a corn dog in Iowa.

[LeftInTX]

21. He'll just have more WH infomercials

[kskiska]

22. He's really going to press the flesh of the teeming masses?

[truthisfreedom]

25. Sounds like a Coronafest to me.

Lots and lots and lots of opportunities for Covid-19 to introduce itself to the orange shitgibbon.

[Captain Zero]

26. Smaller but more propaganda fests means more stairs and ramps.

Good.