Trump cancels North Carolina rally due to storm

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

April 20, 2024 7:34 PM EDT Updated 4 min ago



[1/3]Storm clouds are seen over a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump, in Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S., April 20, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder


WILMINGTON, North Carolina, April 20 (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump canceled a campaign rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday because of an incoming storm, but told the crowd he would return at a later date.

Trump told the crowd to leave immediately because of safety concerns as lightning flashed at the rally site.

"I'm devastated that this could happen but we want to keep everybody safe," Trump told the crowd, his voice relayed to loudspeakers at the outdoor rally at an airport in the presidential battleground state. Trump was calling in from his private jet about a half hour before he was set to take the stage.

The event was due to take place after the first week of his hush money trial in New York.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-cancels-north-carolina-rally-due-storm-2024-04-20/

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Short article at post time.

Anyone remember this?



Obama, in VA, 2012.

[Scrivener7]

1. His week just keeps getting worse.

[calimary]

23. Works for me!

[NonPC]

27. All 500 Attendees were Disappointed

The orange makeup tends to run in the rain, along with the whiney white nationalists that live in Mom's basement.

[DENVERPOPS]

36. Too stupid to realize

that maybe, their "Imaginary Companion" or Mother Nature was trying to tell them something?????? LOLOLOL

[BlueKota]

41. He must have forgot

"It's not nice to fool mother nature." It's appropriate that she scares off the elephant in this clip. 🤣

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[DENVERPOPS]

44. Perfect

I remember those commercials...

[mucifer]

2. President Obama was about 30 years younger than trump. I wouldn't want

President Biden in that storm either.

[relayerbob]

3. Wasn't much of a storm.

Maybe he’s afraid he will finally be struck down by lightning… that’s certainly my first choice.

[ancianita]

5. Looked pretty dark, though. Even the heavens are warning him.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. It looks like a super cell was forming

or had formed, in the background.

ETA - doppler out of KRAX showing the area including where the rally was to be - in Wilmington, NC (looks like some tornadic type activity coming out of SC and moving out of the NW to the SE) -

[Aviation Pro]

10. Yep, that J hook is a clear indicator of circulation

….

[japple]

22. My sharpie dried up and I couldn't redirect the path of the

hurricane!!

[BumRushDaShow]

25. LOL

That cluster is almost out in the Atlantic now.



Need a new sharpie specially made for tornadoes and stuff.

[littlemissmartypants]

34. Didn't even come close. He's just afraid to get his hair wet.

More than likely he was late for dinner at his daughter in law's house with some real money donors. He's not studying a bunch of low rent rubes on a tarmac.

[littlemissmartypants]

50. Trust me, he had other plans.

[twodogsbarking]

4. He can't get wet. Melting ya know.

Trump cancels North Carolina rally due to Stormy

[woodsprite]

29. It'd ruin his hair, his makeup would run, and his diaper would get wet. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Wow. Looks a little Stormy (heh-heh) out there.

Almost as bad as in the NYC courtroom Monday morning, you pathetic LOSER.

[Blue Owl]

13. Indeed... Indeed!!!

[Comfortably_Numb]

8. What a divine plan..... Cantaloupe Caligula gets struck by lightning and hello greasy hamberder spot..

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. Has Moscow Marge proclaimed it to be a sign, yet?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. This was a sensible thing to do. NT

[littlemissmartypants]

35. I know personally that it was a non event concern.

It didn't come close and was gone extremely fast. Some would call it a nothingburger. Which is exactly what he is, too.

[NJCher]

53. The sensible thing to do

Is listen to the weather report.

[agingdem]

12. He canceled because he can't fill a venue..

too many empty seats...

[littlemissmartypants]

31. There are no venues.

He's been rolling up in his jet using it as a backdrop. Then they cordoned an area off where everyone is standing. He spews his shit and leaves. Perfect for the cheap, won't pay his bills grifter. He could have postponed. People could have sat in their cars a few minutes then he could have spoken. The storm didn't last long and wasn't that bad outside. He's a lazy wimp trying to sound concerned for his peeps. Utter bullshit.

[Novara]

59. So this is how he's circumventing being required to pay

Some municipalities have been making him pay up front because he's stiffed too many of them. Add in the fact that half of the money coming into his campaign coffers is going straight to paying the legal fees of his White House Crime Spree, and he can't afford to hold rallies.

[littlemissmartypants]

67. Yep. And here's an interesting article about those legal fees...

A PAC controlled by former President Donald Trump that has devoted tens of millions of dollars to his and his allies’ legal bills could be running out of cash after spending nearly $3.7 million on legal fees in March.

Save America, Trump’s leadership PAC, has now spent $59.5 million on legal consulting since the start of 2023. It also incurred $886,000 in new legal debt in March, according to a report filed with the Federal Election Commission late Saturday. More than $1.1 million of its March spending went toward two firms representing Trump in his New York criminal hush money trial.

The total spent on legal expenses for Save America was almost as much as Trump’s campaign committee in the month of March, highlighting how legal troubles have sucked up the cash of his political operation. Trump’s official campaign committee spent just over $3.7 million in March, with travel expenses, followed by payroll, occupying its biggest expenditure categories.
Snip...
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/20/trump-legal-fees-spending-00153508

Thanks for your reply, Novara. ❤️

[Talitha]

14. Apparently there were high winds, too - very wise of the pilot to avoid the situation.

[littlemissmartypants]

32. His jet sat there through the whole thing. Don't believe the hype.

[Talitha]

47. You mean he was already there but didn't get out of the plane?

I was under the impression that the high wind would have caused problems in flight and landing, so he cancelled out.

[littlemissmartypants]

49. Check your email. ❤️

[Old Okie]

15. Stormy

Must be an act of God to save the poor people of North Carolina; just like the eclipse.

[erronis]

16. "The rented squirrel for my head refused to show up."

[Javaman]

17. The storm before the Stormy LOL! nt

[birdographer]

18. Can't fault Diaper Don for this..

He will do anything to keep that cotton candy hair out of rain, but I have to say this was the right call. I would bet good money he didn't make it.

[orangecrush]

19. Divine intervention

[Demobrat]

20. If he gets wet the running makeup will

make his face look like a paintball target. Not to mention his hair. No way would he risk that.

[Think. Again.]

21. Stormy.

[tornado34jh]

24. Even Mother Nature hates him

If only it would do the same to Mar-a-Lago with a hurricane.

[niyad]

39. Maybe a tornado to limit the damage?

[tornado34jh]

51. Maybe, although supercell thunderstorms are not that common in Central or Southern Florida

Most of the severe weather occurs in Northern Florida, especially in the Florida Panhandle where there is more continental mass. Most severe weather/tornadoes, if they do occur, usually are part of a larger line from frontal systems. But if it were to occur, it wouldn't be just the tornado.

Supercells can affect weather up to 20 miles away. Also. supercells in the South tend to be more dangerous because many of them are what are called HP or high-precipitation supercells. The rain can wrap around the tornado and you wouldn't be able to see it. But in most cases, the most common severe weather threat are high winds. Hail is actually rare in Florida because the freezing level altitude in which hail can form is much higher. I've been in Florida since 2015 and I have never seen a tornado or hail. But I guess if you wanted to go more localized, another way is a storm train. It's when heavy thunderstorms go over the same area again and again like a multi-car freight train goes over the same area of track. Usually it brings immense rain, sometimes over a foot. An example is the floods in West Virginia. But either way, the weather wasn't having it with Trump in North Carolina.

[bluestarone]

26. If this was rally for Biden, all these asshole would be saying

This is a message from heaven.

[Turbineguy]

28. Trump is afraid that God will strike him with a lightning bolt

and turn him into a charred, smoking piece of pork rind.

[CaptainTruth]

30. Too Stormy?

[Eliot Rosewater]

33. Well done!

[FakeNoose]

37. North Carolina had a storm of indifference

Why have a rally if nobody shows up?

[littlemissmartypants]

68. Plenty of people were there.

People came from all over including South Carolina to see him. Some had been standing on the tarmac since early morning. So more than five or six hours before he canceled after he postponed.

He pissed a bunch of people off yesterday.

[keithbvadu2]

38. D'ya suppose it rained as hard as the day he refused to honor American veterans in the French cemetery?

[Mortos]

40. Fate whispers to Trump, "You cannot withstand the storm."

Trump rambles incoherently back, "You are right, the storm is bigly and I am all about safety...so go home patriots. I am telling you to go home. I never told the J6 Patriots what I am telling you. I could have, but I didn't. Leave now. There is a storm and it is really scary. Scary, scary, big storm. Some say it is the biggest storm ever. But I am safe and dry in my private jet. So...giant storm like in that documentary, Twister, with Helen Hunt. Safety first. This is the deep state trying to keep you from hearing my beautiful words. I love you all. We will do it again, minus the giant storm and it will be amazing and better. Soon, like my plan to replace Obamacare, probably come back in a week or two. Three at the most. Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe, Hunter Biden's Laptop. Witch hunt. Deep State. I am suffering like Jesus, but somehow more so than even he ever could. God bless." (Sounds of snoring and farting).

End scene.

[NoMoreRepugs]

42. Slobby didn't give a shit about the crowd, he was TERRIFIED of pictures being taken

with that thing on top of his head soaked in rain.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

43. "God is committing ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!"

"He's joined with Sleepy Joe's DOJ to stop the FRONTRUNNER from resuming his position as PRESIDENT, which was STOLEN from him!!! MAGA!!!"

[ShazzieB]

45. I actually agree with him about the lightning...

OMFG, did I just say I agreed with TSF sbout something?!? 😱

Seriously, though, if there was lightning, he was right to gtfo and tell his fans to do the same. It's actually dangerous to stay outside when there's lightning going on. I would gtfo myself in that situation. It's really not safe to be out in the open when those zigzaggy lines start shooting out of the sky.

This says something about how broke his campaign is, though, that he can evidently no longer afford to rent an indoor facility for his little ego trip sessions rallies. (Either that, or he stiffed so many places in the past that no one will rent anything to him but an open field now, which would also say something about him ).

Either way, his campaign is a joke at this point in time. Too bad, so sad!

[Novara]

60. It's both

I just read that half of the money coming into his PACs is being spent defending his White House Crime Spree, so he doesn't have the money. Also? He's stiffed so many municipalities that they're making him pay up front, which he will never do, because he's used to stiffing them afterwards.

[ShazzieB]

63. Thanks for confirming what I suspected!

He really is unbelievably pathetic. When so many people are barely scraping by, It's nauseating to see someone born into that kind of wealth and privilege squander it all away just to feed his gargantuan ego.

When you think about it, almost oerything he's ever done, including all the criming, has been done because of that. He couldn't "just" be rich; he had to bend over backwards to constantly make himself look richer and more important by falsifying business records AND lying about things like the size of his triplex at Trump Tower and the value of his various properties. He couldn't just sit back and enjoy his luxurious life; he HAD to run for potus, because nothing else was good enough for him.

And he might have gotten away with most of it if he hadn't felt compelled to 1) run for potus in 2016 and 2) refuse to accept his loss in 2020 like a normal person would. Which led to lots of additional criming. Now he's trying to juggle a floundering political campaign while defending himself in what's probably just the first of his many criminal trials.

I know some still think he's going to get away with everything, but I don't agree. He's already being punished by being forced to sit in that courtroom day after day, where he is being treated like a mere mortal and where he will soon be forced to listen to a litany of just some of his wrongdoings without being able to say a word in protest.

This isn't going to be his last trial, either. He is NOT going to win in November, and all of the other trials WILL proceed (with the possible exception of the one Judge Loose Cannnon is trying to sabotage).

I don't personally even care if he ever goes to prison. I just want him to be convicted, to be known henceforth as convicted felon Donald Trump. That alone will be huge. After being convicted in the current trial, he will officially be not just a loser, but one of the biggest losers ever. That is a fate worse than death for him, and he'll be miserable for whatever's left of his sorry life, whether he spends it beind bars or in home confinement.

[Novara]

64. ALL of it is because of his insecurity

ALL of it. All the criming all of his life, including in the White House and again after it - all of it is because he is a deeply insecure loser who can't accept being less than and he can't accept losing because of his deep, deep insecurity. No one can have anything bigger or better than he does. All of that is driven by insecurity, which is masked by ego. But look behind the ego and you can see it. Look behind the scenes of ANY egotist and what you see is insecurity.

If Obama hadn't made fun of him and the entire world laughed at him at that Corespondent's Dinner, he probably would never have had Putin help him into the presidency. And he HAD to have help because there was no way he was going to win on his merits - he has none. And if his insecurity didn't push him into public office, his whole life wouldn't have been opened up and scrutinized. It's his own doing.

So all of this is the fault of his ego/insecurity. He has fucked up the entire country because of his ego/insecurity. He brought the racist, misogynist, hateful out from under their rocks and blessed them. Now they make life hell for others, and they do it with such belligerent glee. That's all his fault and it's because he's so damn insecure. The hateful have always been among us. But they used to mostly keep quiet because it wasn't acceptable to be so hateful in public.He made it acceptable. And they are such utter assholes.

I would rather see him dead than in prison, frankly, so I hope the stress of the trial causes a massive coronary. But on second thought, convict him first. I want him to live with the fact of being a convicted felon. I'd rather see him convicted in several venues for all of his crimes.

It must have been absolutely miserable to sit in court last week and hear prospective jurors' negative feelings about him. Good. He surrounds himself with sycophants; it's about damn time he hears how real people feel about him.

[ShazzieB]

66. Absolutely true!

Scratch a narcissist and you'll find a very insecure person under that facade.

[Novara]

65. Sorry. Somehow this posted twice.

[bmichaelh]

46. Trump needs his followers

He must be in low spirits tonight.

Trump needs his followers.

[sheshe2]

48. This

[twodogsbarking]

57. A very human human being.

[Silent Type]

52. He should have told the "crowd to leave immediately" on Jan 6th.

[Old Crank]

54. Must be an act of god.

That is just a warning to his supporters.

[mwb970]

55. Shouldn't the religious nutjobs be saying that their imaginary "God" is punishing trump?

That's what they say whenever a weather event occurs at a liberal rally or in a liberal place. I guess this is different.

[samnsara]

56. somehow they will blame biden, nancy or hillary for this..

[Novara]

58. "I'm devastated that this could happen "

Weather?

Like it was a personal affront?

Well, maybe it was. The universe hates him.

[OldBaldy1701E]

61. Old saying along the coasts of North Carolina...

"If you don't like the weather, wait a minute."

That whole thing could have been gone in the next 30 minutes. I have to laugh, as I have had to perform on stage in that.

Many times.

With the second tallest metal structures on the island standing about 30 yards from us. (The light towers were just an aluminum framework.)

It was... lively...

I'd say Poseidon was making his presence known for sure. "Get lost, mortal scum! I will not allow your touch to befoul the waters!"

[littlemissmartypants]

69. It wasn't close to ILM. There were no severe weather alerts.

It was a fast move event. I know that for I fact. ❤️

[myohmy2]

62. WHO...

...THE FUCK CARES...??

...