TWGB: The Thrill of the Crowd

 

Donald Trump falsely claims on Truth Social that Kamala Harris' campaign "faked" the size of her crowd at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, saying that "there was nobody there".

The crowd at the airport in Detroit was very real, as numerous videos and images from the rally prove. pic.twitter.com/mRx34gvBRe

— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) August 11, 2024

There are a handful of stories percolating around TrumpWorld that are pretty fascinating to me--for starters, yesterday, we found out that the Trump Campaign had been HACKED! Possibly by foreign actors hostile to the United States, with the intent of influencing the election! 

To which my first reaction as a 2016 Clinton voter is:

 <<<<HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA>>>>

 But no, really, that is horrible. The details are a little funky, though. The hack seems to have been an exploit due to a phishing email--shouldn't campaigns be totally training their people on how not to get "reeled in" by now? Also, Politico got a trove of docs from "Robert" from an AOL email address which included a dossier on JD Vance. 

So, let me get this straight: a hacker using a basic scammer skillset, with an AOL account, dumps docs on a Trump-friendly outfit that includes info on the Appalachian-adjacent Yale albatross that rumor has it some Trump advisors want to deep-six? And of course, having learned their lesson from eight years ago (and Trump being Republican) the very scrupulous media will not lend our enemies aid and comfort by divulging wrongfully obtained materials?

I'm just saying you could be forgiven if a little part of you wanted to believe this was an inside job. I mean, I don't doubt the campaign could have been exploited But there is exploited, and then there is....

I don't know what this is. 

Anyway-- in other news Trump is obviously going batshit over Kamla Harris' crowds: he's claiming they aren't real, but AI.

The "reflection of the mirror like finish" picture is something I saw on Twitter from D'Souza--obviously a recommended source for all your TrumpWorld bullshit needs. And cheating about CROWD SIZE is even worse than cheating about the ballot box, didn't you know? 

But of course, obliging Trump sheeple forwarded actual AI-generated crowd pictures they themselves created to get mad at. 

There's something dark here, of course: Trump always cared about crowd size. It's the first humiliating lie he made Sean Spicer insist on--the Trump inauguration was the biggest, Period. It's not the mere showman's desire for grandiosity with him--it's the narcissistic/strongman complex. The crowd size is one way to visually demonstrate strength. It's a way of saying his is the voice of the people because the people are with him. This is why he now references that his crowd on 1/6 was so great. Compared to the historic March on Washington.

But by casting uncertainty on his opponent's crowd size, he is making the game interesting again: it's a conspiracy against him! The impeachments, the "STOLLEN" election, the various criminal indictments and other court cases, the attempted assassination by "them" (Crooks and who else, it is never clear and never going to be), a hack and now the media are conspiring to make his crowds look SMALL! (They always did--he always insisted they never panned their cameras to show his true crowd size. The lying press!) 

Appalling lies are his crutch. He claims no one knows Kamala Harris' last name. She has been Kamala Devi Harris her whole life. Her last name comes from her Jamaican-born father of African descent. Maybe he is thinking of Shady Vance, his running mate, who is the real one with some authenticity questions. After all, he was never Trump, and called him "Hitler" and now he's lovey-dovey?

Maybe I should just let everyone know that now that Vance is going out to parking lots and doing uncomfortable interviews like this Sunday, some MAGAs wonder how he would do at the top of the ticket. (Don't worry Boss, he will get Fuentes back! But for whom?)

I'm just saying. People do wonder that. Since Trump doesn't want to get his ass out there, I guess the crowds will decide. 

Doesn't that make things interesting? (Watch for Trump to lie about the ballot box too. I hear he does that.)

DISCLAIMER: While I don't claim any psychological expertise, Trump seems to me to be a person with a severe psychopathology with respects to his self-esteem, and is not just a sufferer, but a carrier. As Trump descends in fortune or feels cornered, he will encourage "his people" to feel the same way. It is not a healthy dynamic for our country. This is why his loss this time around needs to be fairly thorough.