Unfortunately, this particular image is a fake. Not sure why someone felt the need to fake it. So none else posted an actual photo in the comments and it is pretty easy to spot the differences.
It wasn’t a rally, it was a deeply weird press conference where he rambled on mostly pretending relining the reflecting pool behind him was some kind of triumph of his presidency.
Can you guys stop electing old decrepit people for your government, country, locally, or otherwise? Please?
All the young people have to work 60 hours a week to make ends meet. How do they find time to run for office?
Sadly not unique to America :/
And of course he couldn’t do it without name-dropping Obama and Biden, and making outrageously false claims
Saw a lot of articles about Trump that were exactly like this right before Kamala lost.
That was more about the stupid shenanigans Biden tried to pull when he knew he couldn’t handle another term. Running Kamala was a last resort that might have even worked if they didn’t force her to take on the team that lost the election for Hillary.
What lost the election for her was Gaza. The Biden/Harris Admin was perfectly happy allowing Israel to do anything they wanted, as long as the campaign money kept flowing.
Then they realized too late how outraged people were about the obvious genocide in Gaza, and yet she still couldn’t bring herself to condemn it. Genocide is a red line that many, many people won’t cross, and won’t ignore, especially when it’s OUR tax money paying for it.
The Democrats actually thought that Americans would be okay with an entire oppressed population being systematically murdered by our proxies, which says a lot about them. That situation helped push me even further Left/Socialist.
I’m speaking more to the “crowds don’t show up to Trump rally, can’t fill seats, leave early” sorts of articles. I’m sure a lot of blue voters who stayed home thought they had it in the bag.
I’ll be honest, I’d love for him to get shot. I’m not saying someone go Kirk him, I’m saying wouldn’t it be fucking hilarious if it happens when he’s out? No way he becomes a mindhive martyr
He is so going to game it to a win in his favour. You are fucked America. Vote like your life depends on it and after he steals it from you fight. Finally get off your collective asses and do something.
I talk to people and no ones fucking paying attention. People are like frogs in a boiling pot. No idea what’s going on and just watching tic tok and Instagram.
I know a lot of black people who are listening to far right podcasts
Hispanic voters are suicidal with their votes because they think they’re considered white
American minorities are going to be beaten down to back to before the 60s
Murikkkans, lololololololololololololol! You know they will fuck this up. Always have!
Ha, no.
He’s going to lose.
I also encourage you to get off your collective asses and stop using the US dollar to trade, stop using the US military to train and support your military, stop accepting US aid, and stop enabling the USA.
Your country is likely smaller and definitely has a much weaker military and police force, so this should be as easy as pie for you, no? Do the right thing and stop being so lazy!
Hey don’t be mad at me your country is a shithole that’s not on us that’s on you.
i remember when presidents didn’t have rallys regularly while they were in office.
It’s like they had another important job to do besides campaigning…
Designing a ballroom?
If only it was just the ballroom! If you have 24 minutes, there is this great history run down on Trumps ballroom and how in the grand scheme of things is actually one of the most normal things of his presidency. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUxdsySDsUw
It is just everything else that he does is a wild typhoon of cruel stupidity.
A lot of the things Trump does bother me, but the constant rallies are the thing that I worry might set a precedent.
Most presidents and former presidents call it a “speaking engagement” or a “fireside chat” this sports team mascot maga cult nonsense is decidedly abnormal behavior.
I actually don’t mind it. Regular direct communication with the public? That’s an improvement from Biden, who disappeared and rarely spoke to the press.
Don’t get me wrong: I hate what Trump SAYS at his rallies. But the rallies don’t bother me.
Town halls are better, though.
What bothers me about rallies is that they’re about rallying people, not conveying information. They’re about making a group of people feel stronger and more powerful. When he’s at a rally, he isn’t being the president for the whole country, trying to bridge divides and unite people. He’s instead trying to tell one group of Americans that they’re the real America, and that the rest of the country is full of evil.
You could theoretically have rallies that tried to make Americans be their best selves. But, most of the time rallies are about inflaming one group against another group, so I’d rather there be no rallies.
What bothers me about rallies is that they’re about rallying people, not conveying information.
That’s why Trump loves them, he has never conveyed anything resembling information in all his time. A lot of dog whistling hurtful things, but not information.
I get that, but these are also a tool for political revolution.
Bernie Sanders and AOC hosted a series of nationwide rallies against oligarchy in 2025. When they started, the political pundit class ridiculed these as out of touch. Oligarchy? That’s just a thing in Russia. Americans don’t even know what that is.
… cut to today. Oligarchy is a mainstream concept. They rallied people – not just folks like you and me, but a lot of normie #resistance liberals who were convinced in 2018 that Trump was an aberration on a well-functioning meritocratic American government – to shift political consciousness and organize in their communities to resist fascism.
Rallies are a tool to educate, motivate, and build public pressure, and can absolutely be used for good.
Neither Bernie Sanders nor AOC are the president (yet). Rallies are fine by a political party or politician. It’s different once you’ve won the office and are supposed to be governing on behalf of all the people.
you think talking at a bunch of morons constitutes communication?
exactly - spewing lies to head-bobbing morons isn’t “communication” any more than throwing dried corn to chickens.
He is rapidly losing political power. His only hope of holding onto power is if he cheats or uses violent force, and both those things require him to have some allies
I like the aquarium they put him in.
If you look at the camera footage of him rambling on there are people walking by at the other end. So presumably it’s to stop some passer by taking pot shots at him from behind.
Nah, it’s an aquarium, his species needs warm, moist air.
Be better if it was full of water.
full of
wateracid
Awesome idea Cdr Straxx.
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What a pathetic little pedophile
Ain’t nothing little about that man except his hands and penis according to Stormy.
Doesn’t Matter. Go vote. The bigger the numbers, the harder it is for them to cheat a victory.
Well said
Congratulation to the bell-end below this comment -322 and counting. Good work
And when they do still cheat a victory fight harder than you ever had
Nah, every arm is attached to the same monster. Participation feeds the monster.
The only reason to want to vote is to be able to live in blissful ignorance again.
Shit I feel like an evil piece of shit just having a job under their systems.
Real change will never come from voting.
Ignorant peace might come, but not real change for real authentic humanity.
Our modern society exists from the “rape” of honest human beings. I’m not going to vote to continue that.
Edit: the responses here worked? I’m voting Republican.
The very informative and educational responses here worked! I’m voting Republican.
You didn’t need to add that edit, we knew that you were voting republican from your both sides posting
This is, by far, the most downvoted comment I have seen in three years on lemmy. You win… something? Best at being the worst?
“It ain’t honest, but it’s much.”
I said this elsewhere but I’ll repeat it for you.
If you’re unwilling to commit tax crimes to prevent your money from funding full blown fascism, then the absolute least you can do is vote against the full blown fascists spending that money.
Write your own name into the ballot if you want to be a dumbass about it, but at the very least that would be a better protest than sitting on your hands while yelling at people how effective your hand sitting is.
Write your own name into the ballot if you want to be a dumbass about it,
I do, whenever there’s only one unopposed candidate, or in the rare case it’s two Republicans against each other. And I get a few others to write me in as well.
Who knows? Maybe one of them will happen to die right before the election, and that will leave me (with all of 3 write-in votes) as the remaining winner.
Wow, you’re so smart. Instead of participating in democracy I should just stay home and post smugly on the internet. That’ll make the revolution happen.
How is americas democracy real when it’s all marketed and bought and sold to people?
Goddamn you must be the smartest human alive to see that.
I don’t think anyone has ever noticed that before.
I take that as forfeiture of this debate.
dEbAtE mE bRo
Go back under your rock, cretin.
No one at all that responded even tried to educate me. I don’t know how you all see it… But that looks bad for your cause.
How could a mere mortal such as myself possibly debate an intellectual titan like yourself?
I, for one, would never attempt to debate FartMaster69.
“Debate”? What you said made no sense, and what you were trying to say didn’t refute the comment you were responding to in any way. Only you could spew out emotional arguments and mistake it for a debate.
if it wasn’t real, why would musk spend $500m + to fuck with the election?
no really?
Why would an extremely rich, extremely stupid man burn cash on a vanity project that backfires stupendously?
Idfk.
But it’s beside the point.
How is americas democracy real when it’s all marketed and bought and sold to people?
The fuck kind of dumbass non sequitur is that? Potatoes are marketed and bought and sold to people. How can potatoes be real?
Hard question that will get your screamed at by people who prefer easy answers
What about this is hard to understand or answer in any way? People are dunking on him because of the opposite-- the question is so easy to answer that to think bringing it up is a good point is laughably naive.
the question is so easy to answer
:-/
It is, but not for the reasons you’re willing to stomach
It seems pretty obvious that two things are true:
- The votes people make are used to determine who gets elected
- People try very hard to influence how people vote
That makes it fake how exactly? Surely a fake democracy would not have the first property?
Don’t worry buddy, we all figured out you were a shill from sentence one.
No this is moronic. Go vote!
No, hear him out!! Participation feeds the monster! Peace is ignorance! Voting is rape!
Foreign propagandist that doesn’t want people to vote in the US midterms. Seems legit.
You’re the reason nothing ever changes, and history repeats itself.
Says the person doing literally nothing except blocking positive change lmfao
Non sequitur asshole
Block these morons and move on.
Your a slave that lives for the progression of the slave master. Indoctrinated, groomed and living your one single life existence under Stockholm syndrome.
American success is not measure of human worth.
You’re a fool that lives for the progression of the slave master. Indoctrinated, groomed and living your one single life existence under the guise that your neighbour is your enemy.
American failure is not a measure of human worth.
That’s not what his paycheck tells him. It’s likely the company motto of the person that pays him to post things like this.
Can I hear the next part of your script please? Clearly the messages you’re responding to don’t enter your context window, so just post it.
You’re
I’d tap the breaks here.
“Random guy on the Internet is responsible for everything” is always a simple minded take
You know, I at least respect your willingness to try to engage in good faith with this lunatic.
Your reasoning is so faulty that, given the choice between being forced to eat 1kg of shit and 10kg of shit, knowing that no choice made it more likely to be the latter, you would say ‘It doesn’t matter, we’re being forced to eat shit!’ then end up eating 10kg of shit, because protesting did not disempower those who would do that to you.
If you had preferential voting, you could vote for no shit over any, and less over more, but you don’t, so you can’t.
With his edit it’s even like:
"You make fun of me for eating 10kg of shit instead if 1kg? That’s it, I will keep eating shit for the rest of my life and throw some of it at you while I am at it. "
AI:dr - “Don’t vote and don’t try to encourage others to vote”
If the worst you can do by voting is nothing, you should probably still do it.
I doubt billionaires would spend the amount they spend on elections if they didn’t have the capacity to do anything.
This has to be satire. Otherwise, I’m glad it only took getting roasted in comments on Lemmy to completely change your edgy view about the merits of voting. Since you’re gonna be voting after all, I guess you want to live in blissful ignorance again.
I particularly like how your last two lines work so well together.
Our modern society exists from the “rape” of honest human beings. I’m not going to vote to continue that.
Edit: […] I’m voting Republican.
Never in my life have I ever encountered such intentional stupidity. I pray to never encounter such again.
Respectfully.
Fuck.
Off.
Why respectfully?
Memes mostly.
Wannabe anarchist throws grenade believing it’s a laser pointer.
They’re a loser, or a right-wing troll
I mean, what’s the difference?
All right-wing trolls are losers, but not all losers are right-wing trolls.
Super obnoxious, I’m surprised they’ve been around for 9 months without me blocking them.
I’m an anarchist, and I don’t want to have anything to do with that fucker.
Most of the ones I see arguing like that are .ml tankies, anyway, not anarchists.
I’m an anarchist, and I don’t want to have anything to do with that fucker.
Average Anarchist Opinion
Guilty as charged, I guess.
Damn anarchists, they ruined anarchism!
Say it with me, diversity of tactics. You will achieve nothing by simply NOT voting either
Diversity of tactics, I like that. I’ll have to try that out sometime next time I’m arguing with a non-voter
You fucking Americans get the government you deserve. Unfortunately, so do the rest of us.
Haha, good one.
…oh, wait, you were being serious? How unfortunate it is for you to be you.
Funny how creatures like this always come crawling out from whatever festering pile of putrefaction they were hiding under, wherever anyone mentions voting. Almost as if there was some kind of coordination happening there.
Particularly whenever there’s a US election coming soon.
thank you! I’ve never seen someone more unpopular than me.
Thanks for the user block recommendation. It’s nice when y’all make comments this fucking dumb that I don’t even need to think if it’s worth seeing anything else you have to say.
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Those billionaire-owned media companies will always have their people there to keep that train rolling for as long as possible.
I don’t know what you mean, its jam packed in there!
With his stupid fucking visual aids. He looks like a timeshare salesman
It looks like it’s all reporters still. Those guys are literally getting paid to be there.
Soros bussing in the rioters! /S
This happened on the National Mall in front of the reflecting pool. He spoke about his “success” renovating the reflecting pool, including a bunch about the pipes. Utterly disconnected from reality. A true “emperor has no clothes” moment.
He’s “kept more promises than he’s even made”, you guys. All of them and then some.
How is it not news that he’s “giving serious thought to renaming it the Trump reflecting pool”?
Cause we all got bigger fish to fry than the ramblings of a demented old rapist.
Do we really, though?
Because he says/attempts to rename everything after himself, so it’s not really news.
And he media gives him so much free air time, most of the time it only helps him.
I thought that was an AI meme, jeez you cant tell anymore whats real whats fake whats just fucking idiotic
Wait, I thought that image was a complete meme, not that he actually greenscreened the reflecting pool for the broadcast!Edit: I’m a bit of an idiot, it’s not a gray wall, just the water reflection. It looks a bit miserable, someone really should paint it blue or something
I think that’s just the grey sky reflection you see on the photo. Looks weird due to the tele lens.
The video shows him walking around and driving around the pool in his limo
Oh, yeah, you’re absolutely right. That makes way more sense. I thought he might have been so paranoid he shot in some parking lot 😅
Honestly, it looked like a parking lot or airport tarmac to me as well. Still a bit weird how uniform grey the reflection appears to be
I love that he knows he’s hated enough to need a bulletproof wall all around him.
Someone could chuck a grenade over the top, so it needs a layer on top. Someone could use gas, so it needs to be absolutely airtight. When they make these improvements, I’d be keen to attend the rally and enjoy the show.
Jail bars would have been better but this will do for now.
It’s a solid wall, just needs some mortar, if you know what I’m saying.
What a cruel, selfish person, and all those who freely chose him and others from the trash party.
