Rescue us, America
Five days to go.
For some years now, I haven’t liked to put up Trump speeches.
Firstly, he’s not a talented or interesting orator — mostly he spews forth mean, sneering, repetitive dumps on the trigger points that serve his populist agenda. The words he chooses to mangle are not interesting or well chosen. His delivery style is a soft, condescending sing song, better suited to a mafia boss ordering a margherita than a leader of people. A lot of the time, he doesn’t make sense. But he knows the words that trigger what Orwell would call the Two Minutes Hate — ‘immigrant’, ‘Marxist’, ‘socialist’, ‘woke’, ‘inflation’, ‘dirty’, ‘criminal’. It’s been reported that former Chief of Staff John Kelly says Trump admires Hitler. Well whatever Hitler’s failings (genocidal maniac, murderer, worst person in history?) he was a skilful orator. Trump isn’t that at all, to my ear.
I always imagined that the great fascist threat would come from somebody who cast a spell, who had immense skill with words. But here he is, a bully and a coward, a disrespecter of soldiers, a cheat and a swindler, an insurrectionist and a traitor, and a bloody awful orator to boot. Here he is running 50-50 to be the next president of the United States.
It’s part of the unfathomable sadness and frustration of this election cycle, that the men who cowered in their offices when a mob was coming to lynch Mike Pence, now cower in their offices, hoping to be promoted to Secretary of State in a Trump administration.
How did it happen? Why this man? This horrible man. This man of few talents?
Was it because the Clintons and Obamas with their silken words and social graces didn’t solve the problems of America or the world? Is it because the GFC happened on their watch and the bankers were bailed out and barely slapped on the risk and left to collect another multimillion dollar pay-check while ordinary people lost homes and farms and jobs, as well as their faith in people spouting silken words and social graces?
It’s been argued that the stream of incoherent nonsense serves his political purposes, that it makes him hard to pin down and reporters tend to clean up Trump’s talking points for him, so they themselves aren’t spouting nonsense in reputable national publications. Some even claim it’s deliberate, that obfuscation, deflection and malapropism are part of the magical jam for the Kids in the Cult, that you don’t really have to listen because there’s nothing to really listen to.
There are some speeches from Trump that people should listen to, and to believe as statements of his intentions, should he win next Tuesday. There’s the one from the Washington Mall when he incited the insurrection on January 6th. There’s the closing address at CPAC where he said ‘I am your warrior, I am your justice, I am your retribution’. There’s the one at Madison Square Garden last week, which I’ll put on Speakola one day as a historically significant nadir in the history of the United States. It was written about by
last week. It’s one of the great accounts, of one of the worst days in American history:Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden began in the early afternoon. The hateful performances of the early participants set the tone for the rally. Early on, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who goes by Kill Tony, delivered a steamingly racist set. He said, for example: “There’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.” He went on: “And these Latinos, they love making babies too. Just know that. They do. They do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside. Just like they did to our country.” Hinchcliffe also talked about Black people carving watermelons instead of pumpkins.
The speakers who followed Hinchcliffe called Vice President Kamala Harris “the Antichrist” and “the devil.” They called former secretary of state Hillary Clinton “a sick son of a b*tch,” and they railed against “f*cking illegals.” They insulted Latinos generally, Black Americans, Palestinians and Jews. Trump advisor Stephen Miller’s claim that “America is for Americans and Americans only” directly echoed the statement of Adolf Hitler that "Germany is for Germans and Germans only.”
Trump took the stage about two hours late, prompting people to stream toward the exits before he finished speaking. He hit his usual highlights, notably undermining Vance’s argument from earlier in the day by saying that, indeed, he believes fellow Americans are “the enemy within.”
Americans have the chance to rescue themselves and the world from more of this madness. I think they will, but I worry they won’t. I’m reading everything in a state of panic, from
’s beautiful ‘For my sons’ to Sarah Longwell’s plea on for the likes of Bush, Romney and Republicans who served under Trump, to step forth now before it’s too late:Choose honor. It’s the choice you’ve made again and again in your professional lives. It would be a sin to stop choosing it because of a mountebank like Donald Trump.
To finish with, I’ll put up a ‘speech’. It’s not really a speech, it’s Trump responding to a Q & A in Pennsylvania. The New York Times and The Washington Post chose to publish it word for word, and many have celebrated this new era of ‘Transcript Trump’.
Rescue us, America.
Best wishes
Tony Wilson
Donald Trump: 'We were doing numbers like you wouldn’t believe, for the farmer', Town Hall ramblings - 2024
14 October 2024, Pennsylvania, USA
This ‘speech’ was delivered during the Q & A of a staged Town Hall during the last weeks of the 2024 election campaign. Speakola is interested in historically significant speeches, and we think this is historically significant because two weeks before a presidential election, this mentally incapacitated person is equal in the polls. The vetted question came from an African American woman behind Trump on the stage. Reading from a card, the woman mentioned her conversion from blue collar Democrat to Trump loving MAGA Republican and then said:
Woman: “Like my fellow Americans, my grocery bill has not gone down. Everything is still so very expensive. What steps will your administration take to help American families suffering from this inflation?”
Trump: So, you know, it’s such a great question in the sense that people don’t think of grocery. You know, it sounds like not such an important word when you talk about homes and everything else, right? But more people tell me about grocery bills, where the price of bacon, the price of lettuce, the price of tomatoes, they tell me. And we’re going to do a lot of things.
You know, our farmers aren’t being treated properly. And we had a deal with China, and it was a great deal — I never mentioned it because once covid came in, I said, that was a bridge too far because I had a great relationship with President Xi [Jinping]. And he’s a fierce man and he’s a man that likes China and I understand that. But we had a deal and he was perfect on that deal, $50 billion he was going to buy. We were doing numbers like you wouldn’t believe, for the farmer. But the farmers are very badly hurt. The farmers in this country, we’re going to get them straightened out. We’re going to get your prices down.
But you asked another question about safety and also about Black population jobs and Hispanic population in particular those two. So when millions of people pour into our country, they’re having a devastating effect on Black families and Hispanic families more than any others. I think it’s going to spread to a lot of other places.
I think it’s going to spread to unions. I think unions are going to have a big problem because, you know, employers are just not going to pay the price. They’re going to—and it’s going to be—it’s a very bad thing that’s happening.
So they’re coming in. Many are coming in from jails and prisons and mental institutions, insane asylums. That’s like, you know, step above, right? Insane asylum. And whenever I go, Hannibal Lecter, you know what I’m talking about. They always go—the fake news. That’s a lot of fake news back there, too.
They always mention—you know, it’s a way of demeaning, they say, ‘Hannibal Lecter, why would he mention?’ Well, you know why, because he was a sick puppy, and we have sick puppies coming into our country. I figured that’s a lot—that’s better than wasting a lot of words. You just say, ‘Hannibal Lecter. We don’t want him.’ But. But they always sort of say, ‘Why would he say that?’ I do it for a lot of reasons.
But I do it because we are allowing some very bad people into our country. And they’re coming as terrorists. You know, you saw the other day, last month they had the record number of terrorists. I had a month — and I love Border Patrol.
Did you see they gave me a full endorsement two days ago? Border Patrol.
The Border Patrol. And they’re great. And, you know, they want to do their job. They don’t want to let these people come in. They look at them. They can tell. They can look at somebody, say good, bad. They say what’s coming into our country now, it’s having a huge negative impact on Black families and on Hispanic families and ultimately on everybody.
And we’re going to close that border so tight. It’s going to be closed. And I said the two things I’m going to do, first, we’re going to close that border—and people are going to come in. You want people to come in. We need people to come in. People are going to come into our country legally.
You know, it’s so unfair. You have people that are waiting on a system, in a line and they’ve been waiting in this line. You know how long? For years, 10 years, 12 years and they study and they take tests. And then people come. I actually say, ‘Why don’t you just go and just come on across?’ I tell people that it’s terrible, right? I said, ‘Go out. You’re incredible.’ They say, ‘What can I do to speed up the process?’ I say, ‘You know what, go to the southern border. I’ll see you on the other side.’ It’s so unfair.
But we’re going to have them come in legally. You have to see what they have to do. They take tests on, you know, who was the first one here? What date was this? What does 1776 mean? All this stuff.
And these other people are coming in and they’re affecting the school systems and they’re affecting the hospital system. I mean, if you take a look at what’s going on in Springfield, Ohio, a town of 50,000 people, they’ve just added 32,000 people. Illegal immigrants. And we’re not going to put up with it.
And we’re going to take care of your costs are going to come down, and you’re not going to have a problem with — because the biggest problem, and I’m hearing it from Black people and to a lesser extent right now, but it’ll be the same, Hispanic people.
And I’ll tell you what, our poll numbers have gone through the roof. With Black and Hispanic, have gone through the roof. And I like that. I like that. I like that. So we’re going to take care of it. You will be — I’ll tell you, if everything works out, if everybody gets out and votes on January 5th. Or before.
You know, it used to be, you’d have a date. Today, you can vote two months before, probably three months after. They don’t know what the hell they’re doing. But we’re going to straighten it all out. We’re going to straighten that out. We’re going to straighten our election process out, too. That’s going to be important, also. So thank you very much, darling. We’re going to get it straight. Thank you.