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© Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Trump says Democrats' convention was 'gloomiest' in history
By ZEKE MILLER, KEVIN FREKING and DARLENE SUPERVILLE ARLINGTON, Va©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
71 Comments
SimondB
I don't think Trump, speaking of Obama, realises how stupid this sounds. Yes, we know you are obsessed with Obama, but what have you done? Apart from 3 miles of new wall?
Haaa Nemui
Trump saying that should be seen as a seal of approval.
PTownsend
Trump sees the US differently from the majority of Americans.
Trump lives in luxury being waited on for his every need and spends time at his luxury resorts where he golfs on the taxpayer's moneys while adding to his own personal wealth.
Trump only deals with his rich family and his fellow 'elite'.
Trump's completely out of touch with Main Street USA and always has been. He's loved by Wall Street.
Bob Fosse
Well, that’ll need some padding out.
Peter Neil
I can't wait to get back to a world where the nonsense and lies of Trump is not continuously forced on us. I never want to hear his voice again.
sunfunbun
Obama states the obvious. Trump does not believe in democracy, he's an autocratic demagogue, who is a traitor to the constitution of the United States of America.
sunfunbun
Well of course there is anger at the ubiquitous failures of the worst president the United States has ever had. Rainbows and sunshine, your administration is not.
Racist country. Racist you. That's the point, Donald, you nailed it.
sunfunbun
The truth eludes the lies of Trump. No truth. No critical thinking. Dumb Trump. Dumb followers...that's why a lack of educated voters is his cult, and they support an idiotic fascist.
He's done. A complete failure, unfit and unhinged.
The Avenger
I guess any DNC would be gloomy if you're an arrogant narcissist and you stand to lose everything.
ramses68
He (Donald Drumpf) also jabbed at former President Barack Obama, saying, “You can’t be a great president when much of what he has done we have undone.”
Yeah like undoing the infectious diseases pandemic playbook... Not necessarily Obama's idea to begin with, but a great example of many of the good things he has undone.
Moron.
Politik Kills
Oh, this tinpot dictator will soon know the meaning of gloom, as he is ushered into his prison cell.
SuperLib
OK, loser.
Ah_so
After one term the economy is worse that when he started and he has made the country a laughing stock.
Instead of "MAGA", just focus on leaving the country how it was when he started office.
Jimizo
Trump’s approval rating on the economy and his response to Covid have both taken a battering. Best focus on the positives. Look at what he said he’d do when campaigning:
Get rid of the debt
Give people great healthcare at a fraction of the cost
Build a wall and make Mexico pay for it
Throw out all illegal immigrants
Ban all Muslims from entering the country
Hire only the best people
Plenty to shout about there.
u_s__reamer
Trump has turned on the gaslight again: he would have us believe that the innovative, optimistic and upbeat Democratic Convention was "gloomy" and packed with "American Darkness", but his gaslight is clearly growing dimmer by the day as his energy wanes and his momentum goes into reverse. The Democrats' message succeeded in instilling some hope in the hearts of Americans and shining some light in the dark night that has descended on America after four years of "carnage", humiliation and shame inflicted by Republican Trumpism.
lincolnman
We all know what Trump sees - mostly Stormy Daniels DVDs...
The rest of America sees;
An economy that is a smoking hole with 10 million unemployed...
Over 175K American deaths, estimated to top 200K before Nov - all due to a President that thought the virus was "a hoax"...
Tattered Alliances and retrenchment from being the world's leader promoting freedom and democracy...
Tax breaks for the Top 1% paid on the nation's credit card - the highest national debt ever....
Race relations at their worst in over 50 years...
China and Russian stronger and more resurgent, North Korea and Iran farther along with their nuclear ambitions...
On and on....
And starting tomorrow you'll see real despair and depression - watching Trump trying to pronounce "Yosemite"...
Jimizo
Trump said he’d get rid of the debt.
Trump said he’d give great healthcare at a fraction of the cost
Trump said Mexico would pay for the wall
Trump said he’d throw them all out
Trump wanted a ban on all Muslims entering the US
Bob Fosse
Not necessary. The RNC is their opportunity to showcase, or will the fake media edit that too?
trump, keeping factcheckers and snopes in business since 2016. They’ll get a lot of new hits next week.
SimondB
Correct. They are trying to contain Covid 19 by preventing Americans from entering their country. As is most of the world. But I guess you also believe that Trump has world leaders calling him on a daily basis to praise his handling of Covid-19 and seeking his advice. Remember when the world laughed at Trump at the UN? The world does not laugh at the US anymore. They pity them.
donburi
Vice President Mike Pence said in an interview Friday that the Republican National Convention next week will focus on what Trump has accomplished, including on the economy and with his coronavirus response.
Don't blink or you'll miss it. It's going to be a very short convention.
Haaa Nemui
that’s gonna happen either way. The thing is people will do it in support of Biden and in opposition to Trump.
stormcrow
Put the Q conspiracy theorists and the KKK together and you've got the 2020 Republican National Convention.
It should be both an interesting and disturbing spectacle to watch.
Graham DeShazo
Only if you are the patriarch of a family of grifters, born with a platinum spoon in your mouth, a failure in school, a failure in business (lost a billion in the 80s!) looking at a landslide defeat and the rest of your life in court and/or jail.
Then it’s pretty gloomy.
zurcronium
Trump and his corrupt buddies will lose in November badly and his business will be bankrupt, again,
in 18 months after he leaves office. All the loony blind supporters of Trump can start a go fund me campaign to bail out Trump, but we have seen that story before with the Build the Wall scam Trump and his cronies ran to take advantage of the MAGA rubes.
Seapig
If Trump “rebuilds” the economy any more like he has so far the U.S. economy will even make his bankrupt businesses look like they were doing great!
The U.S. can’t take another four years of Trump’s MAGA. It’s true Biden will be a one term president, but with the major role of helping the U.S. get back on a track of normalcy after the disaster of the last four years!
Dr Maybe
Even numerous right wing commentators praised Biden's speech. For example:
On Fox News, the anchor Chris Wallace said Biden’s was an “enormously effective” speech, adding that Biden “blew a hole” in Donald Trump’s repeated characterization of him as a candidate in decline.
“It seems to me that after tonight Donald Trump is going to have to run against a candidate, not a caricature,” Wallace said. “The Democrats have had a good convention, now it’s the Republicans’ turn.”
Karl Rove said, and others, said similar.
Desperate attempts to paint Biden as old, out of touch, and all the rest don't fly in the face of reality. Sorry Serrano, I wrote a dirty word (reality).
ulysses
Klansmen, NRA lunatics and witch doctors seem to be the on the speaker list at the RNC convention.
ulysses
10 trump associates Convicted and more on the way.
If all of them turn speakers the RNC convention will not be gloomy at all.
kohakuebisu
I'm surprised anyone believes Trump actually watched it. It's a pity no journalist will get to test him on what he actually saw.
iraira
Trump also said that an ID was required to attend the DNC which was virtual
"To get into the Democrat National Convention, you must have an ID card with a picture...Yet the Democrats refuse to do this when it come to your very important VOTE!"
Sycophants willfully believing or not caring about the constant lies is "gloomy".
ArtistAtLarge
You know what's really gloomy? 175,000 dead Americans because of a failure of a president.
lincolnman
Trump asks the question in his speech next week; "Aren't you better off now than four years ago?"
175K Americans to include Herman Cain - nope...
10 million unemployed Americans - nope...
George Floyd - nope...
A Post Office and Goodyear worker - nope....
Clorox, Mr Pillow, and Vladimir Putin - Heck Yes!
ulysses
The irony is mind boggling.
The good Christian pence announcing his lying, in advance.
ulysses
Since trump’s administration has more criminals than any in history, that’s a topic his supporters should stay away from.
Dr Maybe
If you can quote the words to a Rick Astley song, you're even sadder than I thought.
SimondB
I know that song! "Man, Woman, camera and TV". Plus I guessed correctly that is a picture of an elephant, and not a turkey as others would have said. I'm a stable genius!
ulysses
Not a surprise trump found it gloomy, it doom and gloom for him now onwards!!!
Toasted Heretic
Quite. Biden is a centre right candidate, who seeks to maintaim the status quo. But Trump and the other crooks are so far right, I guess he's the better choice. Just.
Dr Maybe
Can he start answering actual questions about his policies?
The debates are coming up. If Trump will shut up for a minute (you can be sure he'll be constantly interrupting) you will hear Biden's policies in more detail.
Simon Foston
Other breaking news:
tantanmen4life
What is their economical plan? Foreign stance on China? Solving nationwide unrest? Saving the economy? Education reform? Health Care reform? Is there whole platform, We are not Trump!?
Blacklabel
Chris Wallace, a right wing commentator? Hilarious.
ok good now that Biden has shown he can come out of the basement -And- read a speech someone else wrote....can he stay out of the basement and start answering actual questions about his policies?
so far we have lockdown again and national mask mandate. What else?
bass4funk
And what could Biden do differently?
bass4funk
Biden is nowhere near right or even center. Biden is left, his policies are inherently left to radical far left. There is absolutely nothing that makes Biden even remotely close to being conservative.
The Dems will do that for sure, this is true.
Law and order is a thing liberals are allergic to it seems.
Zaphod
He understated. I could not suffer through the whole thing, but from what I saw it was a cringefest beyond belief.
bass4funk
Now the way the polls look, probably not. When you're the challenger, you really don't want a close race. better for the incumbent.
Doubt it, too many properties.
Yeah, lol, that probably won't happen, but I wonder what will Dems do when Trump wins? Move? Hmm.....
bass4funk
Democrats had Linda Sansour, give me a break.
Sorry, we love our second amendment and not ashamed to want to uphold it.
The DNC had strand dancers, loudmouth Cardi B and the uneducated John Legend, in other words....more Hollywood fools that no one cares about.
bass4funk
Not as long as the Dems hold the House.
Yes, until McCain blew that up.
Dems continued to block the effort. Heck, they wouldn't even talk to the CBP, you know the experts, the people that work alongside the border. I thought we are supposed to listen to the experts. Build it by any means necessary.
Which he has been doing a lot, but for some main reason you're not hearing it on the liberal networks.
No, just the violent ones, Indonesians are always welcome, Iran is not.
Zaphod
zurcronium
I am not making predictions. Afaics, this depends entirely on how much the "democrat" side can cheat in the election.
Blacklabel
‘There’s Never Been Anything We’ve Been Able to Accomplish When We’ve Done it Together’
Kuya 808
Maybe Trump found it gloomy, and maybe the Right found it cringe worthy, but the whole thing and especially Biden's acceptance speech clearly have had an energizing effect of Democrats.
So much so, that right after Biden's speech, some of his followers took immediate action to begin to "build back better". First step was to attack a 7 year old boy wearing a MAGA hat holding a pro Trump sign, the next step was to destroy the kid's sign and steal his hat. These warriors weren't deterred by the cries and pleas from the 7 year old and refused to return the hat. In response to the protestations of the 7 year old's mother the Biden supporter's physically assaulted her and a passerby. That's the way to "go get some", Go Dems!
Harris/Pelosi 2021
8T
It was, and that was a very polite way of saying it.
Serrano
Trump’s approval rating on the economy and his response to Covid have both taken a battering. Best focus on the positives. Look at what he said he’d do when campaigning:
Get rid of the debt
Yeah, the U.S. military had to be rebuilt since Obama neglected it. And let's not forget that Obama accumulated more debt during his eight years than every president before him combined.
Give people great healthcare at a fraction of the cost
Go ask Congress about that.
Build a wall and make Mexico pay for it
The USMCA is bringing many jobs back to America, and the Mexican government is doing more for border security than the Democrats.
Throw out all illegal immigrants
That's a tall order all right.
Ban all Muslims from entering the country
It's not a Muslim ban, it doesn't affect most Muslims, only those in high-terrorism risk countries.
Hire only the best people
Yeah, he's made some mistakes in that regard. At least he didn't hire Mitt Romney for Secretary of State. As if Biden is going to hire only the best people, look at his first hire, Kamala "It was a DEBATE!" Harris. LOL
vanityofvanities
Do Americans want to go back to the time of Obama? Trump's America is America. I do not want America becomes another Europe.
Texas A&M Aggie
Have to agree with our POTUS. The democrats non-stop dystopian view of America was on full display at their convention this week. The U.S. regressive liberals are among the most unhappy people you’ll ever meet.
Blacklabel
It was dark and gloomy. Claiming all kinds of problems, yet offering no solutions. Whole lot of pretending that Biden hasnt been in government for half a century, including as VP to the first Black President, yet did nothing.
bass4funk
From the Marxists most definitely.
Then you must hate Washington as a whole.
As do the Democrats
So in essentially what you are saying is, you don't like Washington because in your words both parties pander to the rich.
bass4funk
No, it was on steroids until the Chinese let the virus loose
In bad shape.
bass4funk
If we look more closely....
As if Dems care about the national debt! lol
Healthcare, if Dems cared about affordability then why did they want to keep the mandate in place and keep premiums high?
If Democrats block Trump from building the wall at every turn, I don't think it's wrong for Trump to use every trick to outsmart Democrats and play their game to build a wall even if Mexico doesn't pay for it.
Illegals shouldn't be in the country...illegally-period.
Not all muslims are banned, Indonesians are not banned, why do liberals continue to tell that myth?
What's wrong with hiring the best qualified American over a qualified foreigner? Makes No sense, of course the American should get the job first over any foreigner.
Serrano
Democrats' convention was 'gloomiest' in history
It certainly was the cringiest.
Joe Biden, in his acceptance speech promised to:
End covid
Prevent all threats, seen and unseen
End racism
Never give you up
Never let you down
Never run around and desert you
Never make you cry
Never say goodbye
Never tell a lie and hurt you
Sure, Joe. Tell us another one. No, don't. Just retire and enjoy your tax payer paid life of luxury as much as you can with your deteriorating mind.
ohara
Its instructive watching the Dem meltdown and denial.
People, Joe Biden has been in public office for almost half a century and achieved nothing. Now at 78 years old and in obvious decline he is suddenly America’s saviour and “bringer of light”.
You couldnt make this stuff up!
bo
Biden will make the country kneel for protests, looting and civil disorder, trump will rebuild the economy and MAGA