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!

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    109·
    23 days 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,

    • bcgm3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      22 days ago

      Pretty sure this is not the first time he’s openly admitted to/advocated for cheating, while framing it as “because that’s what the left is already doing.”

      • blargh513@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        22 days ago

        Isn’t this the same party that wants to send voter fraud criminals to a gulag?

        Go ahead then, get to it.

  • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
    48·
    23 days 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.

    • nickiwest@lemmy.world
      2·
      22 days ago

      It’s been nearly 30 years since I fervently believed that an afterlife was real. This comment made me wish it were true.

      Dante could add a whole extra ring of Hell for the MAGA faithful.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    23 days 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.

  • josephmbasile@lemmy.world
    172·
    22 days ago

    I’d like to make this very clear to all the religious folks out there. Hell does not exist because why would an almighty God allow such an abomination? They wouldn’t. There, relax already.

    • obvs@lemmy.world
      81·
      22 days ago

      Hell absolutely exists.

      It’s what Republicans put others through.

      And it’s what Republicans strive to put others through.

      Republicans will straight up tell you they’re trying to protect you and prevent you from going through hell, while the whole time they’re working hard to make sure you’re going through the hell they’ve created for you your whole life.

      And after torturing you, they claim “No, no, no, you don’t understand. You were torturing me!”

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
      71·
      22 days ago

      There is no god and religion is a mental illness, and BY FAR the greatest threat facing humanity. We will never progress with this defect among us.

    • aceshigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      22 days ago

      Also I’m pretty sure hell doesn’t exist in all religions, so just switch to one that doesn’t have it. People convert all the time.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        3·
        22 days ago

        At least in catholicism their god is believed to be omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. Idk how someone can consider themselves a Christian if they don’t believe all three

    • Sunflier@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      31·
      22 days ago

      Maybe, but the religious right needs to burn and suffer in hell. It’s what they f*cking deserve, especially since they’re wearing the mark of the beast upon their brow in the shape of a red hat.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    13·
    23 days 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
      5·
      22 days 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.

  • SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
    101·
    22 days ago

    That’s as close to a Nazi salute as he can get without even the American media catching on.

  • GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world
    81·
    23 days 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.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    5·
    22 days ago

    Go to any backwards town and get 4 people to stand behind you smiling in an extremely tight shot and pretend you’re loved by everyone.

  • Kowowow@lemmy.ca
    4·
    23 days 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