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People Shocked at Sweaty Trump’s Behavior During Vegas Rally, ‘This Man Is So Broken and So Deeply Unstable!’

It's getting pathetic at this point.

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You can see it in his face: Trump is tired.

Yes, some of that is age, and some of it is a hectic schedule (that’s exacerbated by his age). But it’s beginning to look like a death pool in news rooms across America — How much longer can Trump keep all of this up?

His demeanor at the debate was subdued, even for a guy whose face told a different story every time his opponent spoke.

His press conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California was downright bizarre, even by his standards. He spoke quietly while saying all of the same completely insane stuff he normally does. He’s using the same phrases — “At levels never seen before,” etc. — but he’s doing everything a little bit quieter.

The only time he shouts now is in all caps on Truth Social.

Things have gotten so bad for the crowd-size-obsessed former president that in advance of his Las Vegas rally, his campaign decided to use curtains to make the event space look smaller.

Not that they said it this way, but they told reporters to expect less than half the number of people that even fit inside The Expo at World Market Center. They just cordoned off the area so it LOOKED full.

Much fewer than even that showed up, however.

The caption is perfect on that video, though. My oldest daughter played volleyball from 7th grade through college, and I’ve been in a room with that many people at least 150 times. The year she led her high school team to the State tournament, the crowd dwarfed this one. In a city of less than 85,000 people.

The curtains thing isn’t just a rumor, either. Here is the video that shows them, taken inside the rally last night:

It wasn’t just the crowd, though. Trump has changed completely from his days of running on border walls and banning Muslims. He is simply no longer the firebrand he once was.

Everything that sounded like policy in 2016 has been replaced with crazy conspiracy theories and odd behavior 8 years later.

At one point, Trump told the crowd, as he promised them utopia if he’s elected for another term, that he wouldn’t use a specific word since Kamala Harris uses it:

“Everyone will prosper, every family will thrive, and every day we will be filled — you know the word they use, “with joy” — so I’m not gonna use that word, if you don’t mind.”

You want conspiracy theories?

Trump said Kamala was wearing an earpiece during the debate and was given the questions beforehand:

She couldn’t possibly win a debate without cheating, right? That’s what he’s priming his voters to believe about the election in general.

He baselessly claimed that Harris wants to “bring back the draft,” something no politician anywhere has ever since since the draft ended:

He literally said that he’s going to deploy the Border Patrol to “liberate” an American city from illegal immigrants. LIBERATE. As in, “We’re in a war against immigrants” kind of liberate:

And how did The Biggest Debate Loser wrap up his long-winded, boring, lie-filled speech? With an attempt at a nursery rhyme, apparently:

The saddest thing about that last part is that someone he pays good money to told him that was a good idea. Some hack advisor convinced the failed vodka entrepreneur that he just needs a chant for people to remember, and then made it so long that there’s no way Trump could even remember it if he hadn’t had a teleprompter.

One thing is certain. In Las Vegas, Sin City, the Entertainment Capital of the World, you’re supposed to look like you’re having fun. Trump does not look like he’s having any fun anymore.

Watching him implode like this is just the beginning of the fun for democracy. And people on Twitter agreed:

Andrew Simpson
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Andrew is a dark blue speck in deep red Central Washington, writing with the conviction of 18 years at the keyboard and too much politics to even stand. When not furiously stabbing the keys on breaking news stories, he writes poetry, prose, essays, haiku, lectures, stories for grief therapy, wedding ceremonies, detailed instructions on making doughnuts from canned biscuit dough (more sugar than cinnamon — duh), and equations to determine the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow. A girlfriend, a dog, two cats, and two birds round out the equation, and in his spare time, Drewbear likes to imagine what it must be like to have spare time.

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