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© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Trump holds first rally after assassination attempt with his new running mate, Vance, by his side
By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and JILL COLVIN GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
47 Comments
Jimizo
Oh wait! Does everyone know this?
For some, voting for a convicted felon is problematic.
Ricky Kaminski13
There’s no way Biden is going to nor can run. He can hardly walk. Cue the music to the Hillary Clinton vs Trump rematch?
dagon
Trump clearly in full liar obfuscation mode. He has met full on Great replacement theory racists and conspiracy theorists. His policy drafters at the Heritage Foundation are severe right now?
Toblerone
For some, voting for a convicted felon is problematic.
Yeah, “some”. The rest know a kangaroo court when they see one.
stormcrow
He’s such a showboat! If he wins in November, he’ll probably. . .
give himself the Congressional Medal of Honor for the assassination attempt,
release all of the January 6th rioters,
reward those rioters with the Medal of Freedom and
send Putin and Kim invitations to visit the White House.
Jimizo
Erm…yes.
Some think it was a legitimate conviction and others disagree. Hence my use of the word ‘some’.
I honestly don’t get your point here.
asdfgtr
Vance on Donald Trump: “Fellow Christians, everyone is watching us when we apologize for this man. Lord help us.”
bass4funk
Some, but not a whole lot this time around
asdfgtr
Mr. Trump on Vance:
“J.D. is kissing my ass he wants my support so much,”
the former president said — while Mr. Vance stood by.
bass4funk
Yeah, so how do you explain 10 million illegals being allowed to cross into our country?
If El Salvador can reduce their crime rate by 75% murder capital of the world, the U.S. can do the same with illegals
Toblerone
Some think it was a legitimate conviction and others disagree. Hence my use of the word ‘some’.
I honestly don’t get your point here.
Really? You don’t? Give it some more thought, I think you can understand.
zibala
Great speech.
Great presentation by a brave and courageous leader.
GuruMick
Bass, here's an idea for reducing "illegals " into the USA.
Prosecute those American farms, businesses and restaurants, transport companies etc to the fullest extent for hiring illegals.
If illegals cant get work, and business wont employ someone without documents , the drawing power attracting "illegals " would be cut by 80%.
However, if AMERICAN OWNED businesses are making profit by employing people below minimum wage levels, and absent all the other things that go with a legit. job {health care , for example } , then arent these US citizens and employers as liable as the actual "illegal workers "
Look in your own backyard of Texas and say it isnt so.
zibala
That's why the wall needs to be completed.
plasticmonkey
Gimme a break. Cut the melodrama.
bass4funk
Let hear it.
How about sending them back first.
How about they come in legally, the way my grandparents did on y mothers side?
No
I do and we don’t have any illegals, not on our ranch, everyone is American, now I can’t speak for every single person obviously, but where I live it is definitely strict when it comes to illegals living here, California is a different story, Newsom doesn’t care one iota, and why would he? He’s so detached from reality as to how the average person lives in that state, people have tried to tell him, they had a recall and he doubled down, so the only thing left is to just leave. Now what do like and am excited about is when he reinstates Tom Homan and we can possibly get the Senate, voting laws will change and become Federal and that means all Americans have to have a form of verifiable ID, so good and sensible times ahead
lincolnman
What you'll hear at a Trump rally: "The Dems are all criminals, immigrants want to replace your blood, Hannibal Lector is a wonderful man"....
What you'll hear at a Trump meeting with his Global Capitalist donors: "Don't worry, we'll continue to play the "great unwashed" for suckers - keeping them bamboozled with fake outrage issues while we give you massive tax cuts, gut regulations so you can pollute more, and best of all, bring in more immigrants to take American jobs since you can pay them less"...
"We'll all get richer while the MAGA-masses get poorer - yet still send me all their money!"
"How's that for the Art of the Hustle?"
zibala
Good idea.
Fine those business owners and use that money to deport the illegals.
GuruMick
Zibala, dont need a wall if US people stopped employing "illegal labour "
But you'd pay more at the fruit and veg section at the supermarket.
And Trump ,did not "take a bullet for his country. "
More accurate to say, someone tried to kill him.
Two different things.
Geez....this is a long journey....are we there yet. ?
zibala
Not all those entering illegally through Mexico are coming here to work.
Better to be safe than sorry,
Orders for border patrol to shoot on sight any illegals would also be effective.
dagon
Gpimg to be a lot of GOP donors among them who love that government subsidized cheap labor.
Including Trump which is why he won't do it.
https://time.com/4465744/donald-trump-undocumented-workers/
MAGA
lincolnman
Like this guy...
"President Donald Trump will almost certainly bring up the issue of illegal immigration during his State of the Union address on Tuesday. When he does, Victorina Morales, a former employee, will be in the audience watching. The 45-year-old immigrant from Guatemala worked for more than five years as a housekeeper at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. She is also undocumented.
Morales washed Trump’s clothes, made his bed, and scrubbed toilets at the private villa where he stays. She continued working there even after he won the presidency and he ramped up his rhetoric about immigrants like her, blaming them for rampant crime, job losses, and a host of other social problems."
https://www.vox.com/2019/2/4/18207096/victorina-morales-undocumented-immigrant-trump
GuruMick
Bass, good for you and your ranch !
Hombre !
But like your views on gun ownership, YOU, YOURSELF, being a good citizen and responsible gun owner doesnt flow onto the multi thousands who are not you, and employ illegals or misuse firearms.
The USA is the country it is, because many, many citizens are not doing the right thing.
But good on you Hombre, anyway.
bass4funk
Would you have said that if the same thing happened to Obama or Biden?
There will be always some that slip the cracks, but 10 million, nope, not anymore.
He will
More rehashing old news? Is that what the Dems are running with? That’s so 2016
TaiwanIsNotChina
Well he is right about that, but not because of the assassination attempt.
So did any American that happened to run afoul of a nut with a gun. Zero skill demonstrated, zero suffering incurred = zero reward.
lincolnman
Ever wonder if Mike Pence ever reached out to JD? The conversation had to go something like this...
"JD, congratulations, I think... I just want you to know I was in your shoes. When Trump picked me as VP in 2016, his supporters couldn't compliment me enough - they loved me. And they continued to love me for 3 years and 364 days as I stood side by side with the President, through thick and thin. Then, when they wanted me to be an accessory to a criminal coup, they immediately turned on me - and my family. I went from God-sent MAGA-hero to "string the RINO and his family up". All I'm telling you is don't believe the adulation - and if you go to a Trump rally and see nooses, grab your family and run".....
bass4funk
Why do libs hate Democracy??
Yeah, but they’re not running for the highest office in the land, so in that sense, Trump is right.
bass4funk
I’m not your hombre
Ahh, the apples and kiwi argument, eh?
One of them would be coming in through the back door illegally
That’s what sensible people do
zibala
Trump was joined by Ohio Sen. JD Vance at the pair’s first event together since they became the GOP’s nominees at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Two American heroes.
Comforting to see Trump so full of vigor and vitality compared with the guy secluded in a dark room, who, after being described as suffering from general malaise, immediately saluted and congratulated General Malaise for his work in Afghanistan,
plasticmonkey
Yes, I would.
In the same way I would never say that Lincoln or JFK “took a bullet for the country”. Getting shot is a tragedy, not an act of bravery. Unless you deliberately jump in front of the bullet to save lives. Which wasn’t the case for any of these men.
bass4funk
Yes, I would.
Hmmm…
Technically, yes, and no, you’re right on one hand, but on the other hand, when there is a person that you put your trust in and you want that person to lead your country just that act in itself is bravery, knowing the dangerous that come with it, and knowing that you could lose your life, so it is in many aspects and act of bravery, because I would never do that, because I know the dangers and pitfalls that come with the job.
Duly noted
zibala
I, and the others here who served in the military have a different experience.
Moonraker
Civilisation ends like this, with gurning rats surrounded by adoring and uncomprehending fools.
dagon
Ask Vance's and Trump's Daddy Warbucks Peter Thiel.
They have the plan and the vision.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/11/peter-thiel-2024-election-politics-investing-life-views/675946/
bass4funk
Speaking of the end of civilization. When you look at the U.S. right at this moment that is exactly how people are feeling. There is nothing that is going fix the downslide, the Democrats had four years to change the country, that four years where they could’ve done good things, but what did they do? They focused solely on Trump and on politics, that is the only thing that this administration focused heavily on…..and to their detriment.
Calm down, there will be democracy in our Republic, but wokeism won’t be front and center and we will go back to 2 genders. If you think that’s a radical position to take, oh, well…
TaiwanIsNotChina
He shouldn't be there 1) because he is an ignorant piece of stuffing and 2) because he is a felon. Has nothing to do with democracy.
A homeless person could run for the highest office in the land and would probably be better qualified. Does that make that person a super brave warrior?
bass4funk
Ok, so he won’t get your vote, gotcha
If you can convince 75 million and growing he doesn’t believe in democracy, I’ll buy you a vegan burger.
Reality check, a homeless person could never run, because they would need $1 billion minimum to even be allowed into the race, I just don’t understand the anger, it’s not that bad, I’m looking for to cheap gas prices again and more importantly really looking forward to drilling again!
Moonraker
It's nice we all agree on that then. But all those who put their faith in political left or right to halt the slide are terribly misguided and actually part of the problem. Same with those who put their faith in Christianity or any other bronze age religion. We really have to get beyond all that BS now in the 21st century. But we can't so we are done.
GuruMick
Bass...hombre !...cant we all just get along ...{Rodney King }
The Dems had "4 years to fix " things.
Took 3 of those years to undo Trump's childish petulance in international meetings .
Trump is no statesman.
Hombre !
plasticmonkey
Sorry to break the news to you (since Fox doesn't report inconvenient facts), but oil production under Biden is the highest in the history of the country. That certainly hasn't made Biden a favorite among climate change activists, but the idea that Biden has stopped drilling is pure nonsense.
bass4funk
So you want to be a jerk now? What did I tell you? I told you politely, I’m not your hombre, just leave it’s not that hard to do.
And the country is worse off for it
Voters disagree
plasticmonkey
That doesn't sound like democracy. Banning books and the teaching of anything in American history that makes white kids "uncomfortable", demonizing LGBTQ teachers and trans kids, putting the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms, and the deportation of people who have spent their entire lives contributing to the US economy back to their "home" country, where they're never set foot in or can't speak the language -- these are not democratic practices.
plasticmonkey
Don't stereotype.
bass4funk
Yes, for now. The last three years he didn’t do anything, then he depleted our oil reserves, and now is trying to fill them back up and it increase all production because there is, an election coming up if Biden were to win, that would stop immediately, and every liberal knows it, but as of right now, of course, and that’s the reason why when Trump wins that’s gonna stop, it’s not an election campaign slogan is going to be here to stay.
I know. They just have to see if they can win this election, which looks like they’re not, he doesn’t have to lie anymore about stopping drilling and push those crazy EVs
well, not really, because he’s not doing this because he wants to, of course, he knows he’s gonna get flack for it, but he also knows that most Americans want oil, that’s why Trump has been campaigning on it and on his part, it’s kind of a smart move, if you believe in that, but if you are a savvy voter, you can see right through with Biden is trying to do. as soon as he wins election, that will stop, and then it’s going to be pushing those EV again, which no one wants or can afford the vast majority of people.
bass4funk
you already have that, what’s wrong with teaching all American children about American history the good and the bad, even I learned that when I was in college and back, then those were the great days when teachers were relatively normal, you had some liberals, and we laughed at them, but they weren’t pushy with their personal agendas they were quite decent.
I see, so how is that going to help me in my future in my career learning about LGBTQ issues and trans kids, I can learn about them talk to them, but that has nothing to do with education or my degree, so I don’t need to study their lifestyle in depth, it doesn’t help me, it doesn’t help my wallet.
What’s wrong with it? What is wrong with knowing what is right and what is wrong the basic tenants of the 10 Commandments, has nothing to do with religion, since it was started by the Jewish religion, I think it’s kind of common sense, you can do what you want to do but to have that foundation I don’t think it’s a bad thing, no one is promoting you you have to become a Christian, or you have to become a Muslim or you, it’s just basic this is how you should conduct yourself in life and nothing more, if liberals want to attach a religious component to it, that’s on them.
DACA, they’re not going anywhere, they’re already here and they can wait a little bit longer, that will come up eventually one day, and I’m not talking about them, there is a case to be made, but I am more concerned with the 10 million that came in, they do need to go back, not if they apply for political asylum, or they entered in legally, that’s different, but that’s not what happened. People are tired of it, they’ve been expressing for years that Biden should stop it, they didn’t listen, and here we are with Trump ahead that is a message to Biden and the Democratic Party. They failed, we won’t.
rzadigi
the only true words he’s ever said.