The president tried to get the crowd to repeat after him — but he kept getting sidetracked.

President Donald Trump concluded his Republican midterm convention on Thursday by leading the audience in a pledge … to himself.

Trump asked the crowd to raise their right hands and begin: “I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States.”

The crowd dutifully repeated the line, calling Trump “the greatest president in the history of the United States.”

Trump added: “that loves us so much he can’t even breathe.”

The crowd again repeated the line, but then it got a little harder to follow.

“That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it anyway, I don’t care if I’m registered or not. I’m going to try and cheat like hell like they do,” he said. “There’s never been bigger cheaters, they don’t care. I am going to go out and I am going to get my friends, my family, and we are going to vote on November 3rd or we are going to vote before that.”

Unable to repeat all of that, the crowd cheered.

Trump realized he lost them and reset.

“Are you ready?” he asked. “Here’s the way you ― “

But he wasn’t ready himself as he got sidetracked by people in the audience. He tried once more to finish, with the crowd repeating after him, but left them behind as he went off on another tangent.

“So help me God,” he concluded.

The crowd repeated that part heartily.

“You know what happens if you don’t vote?” Trump asked. “You go to hell!”

So much blasphemy that he’s telling his supporters they’re going to hell!

  • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
    37·
    10 hours ago

    So, a direct pledge to him as god-king-emperor in which he claims moral authority over their previous god, and that he has the old god’s power of final judgement.

    Sigh, I wish with all my heart this were actually binding. I can think of nothing better than these creatures getting an eternity in a pocket universe of trump’s creation with him as the supreme power.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    66·
    11 hours ago

    I think that headline missed the plot.

    “That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it anyway, I don’t care if I’m registered or not. I’m going to try and cheat like hell like they do,

  • bobjones1665@lemmy.world
    47·
    11 hours ago

    So he just authorized conservatives to openly cheat.

    The projection is just…

    I can’t with these people.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    12·
    11 hours ago

    I’m grateful I accepted myself as a godless atheist long before this shit came up. If I was a Christian, a real Christian anyway, I’d be so fucking pissed off by this guy.

    I mean, I’m pissed off by this guy anyway, but not in a divine way at least.

    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 hours ago

      I’m in the same boat, sort of. I was a true believer, but the words-in-red kind, not like this lot. Got all the way out just in time, and I could not be more relieved. I literally do not know how I’d still be functioning if I were still a believing Christian and this was somehow my own twisted circus-mirror faith being reflected back to me.

      Knowing it’s all a lie is a VAST relief.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    12 hours ago

    The 33% who are too stupid and too racist to care what he says. They just love pulling off his diaper and giving him a sloppy rim job.

  • Kowowow@lemmy.ca
    4·
    10 hours ago

    Feels like an easy way for him to lose people is to try and get them to “repeat after me”, like there is no way helps people think he’s snart

  • GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world
    81·
    12 hours ago

    So now the question becomes if we KNOW by their own words they’re going to cheat, why allow them the chance? Why not just eliminate the possibility by eliminating their right to vote? If not, I guess we have to cheat then - we’ve seen what happens when we try to play fair and they don’t, and we can’t afford even a single step more in that direction as it would be the last.