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It Appears a ‘Tent’ Was Built Over Ship Ramp So Cameras Couldn’t Catch Trump Walking Up/Down the Ramp

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At some point over the last week, a team of – we’re guessing – five to six people, using supplies that might have cost one-thousand dollars, built a ramp to the U.S. Navy battleship that Trump toured today in Wilmington North Carolina. It was not a difficult engineering matter, it’s just ridiculous that it ever occurred to anyone that this was very important.

Someone, whether it was someone in the Trump campaign, or Trump himself, figured out that there was a fairly long, gentle ramp, to and from the ship. That person’s thoughts immediately went back to the last time that Trump had to navigate such a daunting physical challenge. Trump is still hurting from the video and mockery that resulted from him needing a general to guide him by the arm down the ramp at West Point. And the person made a determination that no camera was going to get a picture of any difficulties this time, damn it!

Obviously there is no official statement that the tent was built to shield Trump’s walk from the cameras. We are inferring it because … because that tent looks built for a president and there would be only one reason we can think of to build it. Trump would be more exposed to possible attack while on the ship or in the area than the ramp. Of course, it was built to keep the video from getting out if Trump had a problem.

Just last week Trump came infuriatingly close to having his political career end with a fall on some stairs to a stage. Given the pattern and the chronic problems that Trump appears to have, we suspect we’re going to be seeing far more of this type of thing. There will be increasing attention to shielding Trump from accidents. We suspect it’s been going on for some time. Trump is generally already sitting in a chair when the media is allowed in, or he stands at a podium gripping it for dear life, very little in between.

We contacted the man who sent the original tweet showing the ramp, and asked him his background and how he knew the ramp was new, etc. Here is his response:

Some folks had some other observations:

We suspect we’ll be seeing a lot more tents, a lot more covers, hidden entry/exit ways, a lot more “seated interviews” with all risk of a fall taken out.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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