Meanwhile, Harris has aggresively hit the campaign trail, hoping to fire up voters in battleground states across the country

On Thursday, former president Donald Trump attempted to — yet again — recalibrate his campaign, this time with a press conference at his property in Bedminster, New Jersey.

The appearance at his beloved golf course comes exactly one week after Trump tried to put the spotlight back on himself amid Vice President Kamala Harris’s surging poll numbers, with a press conference at his Florida home of Mar-a-Lago. He used the event to grumble over crowd sizes, at one point stating incorrectly that his speech before the January 6 riot at the Capitol had more attendees than Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington.

It’s noteworthy that both of these “press conferences” happened at his own properties — the safest of spaces for the former president.

  • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    76·
    3 months ago

    He also complained about Obama golfing (at Air Force bases close to the White House). Trump nearly doubled his count (mostly at private/expensive golf courses).

    Republicans are nothing if not hypocrites.

    • worldwidewave@lemmy.world
      60·
      3 months ago

      Mostly at his own private + expensive golf courses, where he was billing the secret service at exorbitant rates, which we all paid for in our taxes. That’s fucking bullshit, and reason #27564 that you shouldn’t vote for the guy.

    • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
      14·
      3 months ago

      Obama golfing (at Air Force bases close to the White House).

      Golf courses specifically designed and built for heads of state and dignitaries to golf at because of house safe and secure they are. Mar-a-lago was allegedly a nightmare for the secret service to secure.

    • APassenger@lemmy.world
      131·
      3 months ago

      I agree. And I think that assassination attempt has him scared, whether he admits it or not.

      • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
        4·
        3 months ago

        If he’s so terrified, just ensure everyone there has a gun. I’m sure there’s plenty of good people with guns to stop the bad ones.

      • barsquid@lemmy.world
        151·
        3 months ago

        People are saying it was a weak and low energy crowd of 24. Repubs have been telling me for years to use the “people are saying” standard for fact checking.

    • Eheran@lemmy.world
      131·
      3 months ago

      Was that a thing or are you referencing the picture that was taken 1.5 hours before the event began?

  • mommykink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    275·
    3 months ago

    I was reading an article the other day (will try to find it) that said Trump almost 100% has PTSD after the assassination attempt. According to someone with the campaign, every night he’s just been watching and rewatching that ~10 second clip showing how close he was being killed. His speeches have gotten a lot darker in tone (even compared to how he’s always been) and as this post says, he’s not really been “out” since then.

    • Nougat@fedia.io
      31·
      3 months ago

      I think it’s more likely that he’s reliving a moment where all attention was on him.

      • Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        11·
        3 months ago

        I saw this take in that thread too, and I have to say it seems to be the more plausible of the two. Someone told him that he was basically guaranteed the presidency in that moment, and now it’s all slipping away from him. He’s trying to go back to the moment where he was sure he’d won.

        Of course, it could also be trauma. Who can say? If he even knows for sure (and I personally doubt if he has that level of self awareness), he’ll take it to his grave.

    • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 months ago

      that said Trump almost 100% has PTSD

      Send him to the VA to deal with his PTSD, see the real life nightmare all his budget cuts and slashes and how it impacts veterans the repubs claim to love.

    • ccunning@lemmy.world
      42·
      3 months ago

      I was reading an article the other day (will try to find it)

      If you do find it, you should share it at /c/politics and/or /c/news. It sounds interesting. I will try to remember to look back here but to be honest my memory sucks.

  • InternetUser2012@lemmy.today
    18·
    3 months ago

    Maybe getting shot at made him realize he’s not as liked as he thought he was, especially considering it was one of his team that shot at him.

  • barsquid@lemmy.world
    9·
    3 months ago

    Old man suffering from dementia and too frightened to go outside. He’s always been too frightened to actually answer any questions from the press. Just flees home and puts on a lid.

    • barsquid@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      This is subjective, of course, but I recall Trumpanzees saying “time for a lid” (about Biden, with no sense of irony that Donald literally fled from reporters when the questions hurt his feelings) throughout the entire 2020 election. I don’t think it was specific to having covid.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 months ago

      yes but you’re normal. We’re talking about a demented sociopathic malignant narcissist who also happens to be a convicted fraud and rapist in a wig, makeup, and heels.

      Not . . . not that there’s anything wrong with a wig, makeup, and heels - only if you’re pretending to be a dictatorial strongman asshole.

      • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip
        3·
        3 months ago

        It’s like Vance’s eyeliner: Makeup for men should be perfectly acceptable, if it helps them feel more comfortable. But when your base regularly hurls f-slurs, it’s just hypocritical.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 months ago

      Did they release a statement or something? Or is that like an extrapolation they’ve made from the ‘hacking by Iran’ thing?