Trump Mocks The Elderly Days After Calling Seniors ‘My Favorite People In The World’ | Talking Points Memo

President Donald Trump on Tuesday night mocked the elderly and disabled when he shared a meme that appeared to show his Democratic opponent Joe Biden Photoshopped in a wheelchair inside at what looks like a nursing home.


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Trump on Tuesday night mocked the elderly and disabled

Well, at least he’s punching up.

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Trump just can’t stop himself from playing a losing hand.

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It’s like a master class in self-destruction.

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After his plea last night to suburban women to like him, I can’t wait to see what he’ll be tweeting out to appeal to them.

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And he does think that he’s being funny!

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OK, seriously, here’s the contest: Come up with a campaign plan for Pumpkin Traitor that is actually WORSE than whatever the fuck he’s doing now.

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The continuing FLAIL strategy will surely turn this race around. Memes are what the American people are crying out for in 2020 and Trump loves them because they’re cheap, like he is.

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“Look, I wouldn’t bang any of you, but I’ll cut your taxes. If you’re wealthy.”

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Less than 3 weeks now. Vote, if you haven’t already. Get others out to vote. Take back the presidency and Senate, increase the majority in the house, vote for Democrats at the state and local levels. And then get to work fixing this place.

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Can’t wait for his next great tweet or rally cry begging the old people to vote for him because he’s done so much for them. It probably will come out right after he tweets something demeaning about “suburban women,” who he seems to think are all mousy housewives with no jobs or judgment and a great fear of minorities.

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Biden showed he was fine during the recent debate with Trump. (Trump, on the other hand, showed his ass.)

So many people either saw that debate or heard about it, and/or did not hear that Biden showed any signs of cognitive decline, that the Trump campaign’s efforts in this regard fall totally flat.

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I think we’re about a week away from Trump openly mocking Biden’s stutter at his rallies.

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I’m quite sure that he’s got someone else on retweets like this. Not even Scavino is this stupid.

It’ll be interesting, in the after-times, to do some forensic investigation of who all was actually handling the Twitter feed.

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A recent NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found Biden leading Trump by 14 points, his largest advantage ever in the survey. Among seniors 65 and older, Biden led by a startling 27 points, marking a 23-point swing in his direction in one month.

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Next Trump will be posting cartoons mocking Jesus as a loser and sucker. Trump is on a roll, folks. He keeps throwing the dice and gets nothing but boxcars.

His staff doesn’t know that photos of Donald always riding around in a golf cart gives the impression of a senior who can’t walk very far? How about walking down a ramp taking teeny tiny steps? If you need steroids just to get out of bed, you’re one step away from a stroke.

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Very well said, castellano

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Two utterly expected headlines come from this:

  1. Trump demeans his supporters.
  2. Elderly Trump supporters vote against their interests.

Honestly, Trump being Trump is not news any more.

Let’s move on to something like Senate Republican intransigence toward coronavirus relief legislation so that people like Wolf Blitzer STFU.

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How about urging seniors to vote for him in order to help him kill Social Security?

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But yet again he proves that what he finds funny is always and only some variation of mockery. Like everything else, his enjoyment is a zero sum game.

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