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Maeve

(43,350 posts) Sun Jun 21, 2020, 06:18 AM Jun 2020

Perhaps the lowest bar for applause ever set [View all]

On the glass of water, he indicated his arms were tired from saluting cadets, which he compared to lifting weights, and said he didn’t want to risk getting water on his red tie: “I just saluted. Six hundred times like this.”

He then drank water at his podium in Tulsa, with one hand, and the crowd cheered.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/20/takeaways-tulsa-trump-rally/

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Perhaps the lowest bar for applause ever set [View all] Maeve Jun 2020 OP

OMG what a pathetic loser. captain queeg Jun 2020 #1

Wouldn't lifting all those cans of coke and double cheeseburgers sarge43 Jun 2020 #2

"tired from saluting cadets" rurallib Jun 2020 #3

Poor Marco. He didn't even get any applause. lpbk2713 Jun 2020 #4

I watched that part and laughed mercuryblues Jun 2020 #5

I'm inactive, so saluting 600 times might be mpossible for me, I don't know. rainin Jun 2020 #6

There's no requirement for him to salute at all. sarge43 Jun 2020 #7

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