Have Some Trumpathy…
Compare and contrast Donald Trump’s routine humanity toward anyone caught in tragic circumstances to puppet Joe Biden, who if he works a crowd (which is rare) is best known for never finishing a sentence, getting lost on stage, and sniffing the hair of little girls.
April 20, 2024–MAGA-America First Trump voters know the blue-collar billionaire Donald J. Trump, our favorite president, is a person of integrity and honor. In other words, a mensch.
But Trump’s honor and integrity is but one aspect of Trump’s populist persona which unfortunately for our country is relentlessly under fire by the forces arrayed against him.
Trump’s menschiness is obvious in his policies whether fighting inflation, creating decent-wage jobs, cutting taxes, removing burdensome regulations on business, keeping the eco-fascist green new deal in check; or, closing the southern border, not funding endless wars, addressing trade imbalances and much more, and/or his straight talk on cultural issues like abortion and the trans movement.
All of Trump’s policies are common sense. The beauty of common sense that the elites don’t cotton to is that it is free and it is can be accessed by anyone. Common sense travels far and wide. Trump’s speech – which he keeps to a fourth-grade level – is frictionless. Maybe this fact accounts for how Donald Trump spends one-third of what his opponents spend campaigning with twice the yield.
The Pennsylvania Amish came out for Trump in two elections and will again. A reporter can go to deepest Africa and ask anyone about Donald Trump and they know who he his and seem delighted by him. MAGA rally goers wait for hours to hear him speak know his policies backwards and forwards. A handful of countries in Europe and South America are electing populist leaders — all said to be in the Trump mold — most notably Javier Milei, the new President of Argentina.
Trump’s common sense combined with his empathy is his calling card. It’s a signature trait that the world has witnessed for eight years.
And we saw it writ large again this week when he went from the lower Manhattan court room where jury selection is going on in what the MSM call a hush money case but is, if anything, a bookkeeping error case to make a campaign stop uptown in Harlem.
Trump is essentially under house arrest in that court where Judge Juan Merchan has issued a gag order against him, disallowed any absence in court which means he may have to skip his son Barron’s high school graduation or risk being thrown in jail and importantly will not be able to sit in on Supreme Court oral arguments on April 25th when the presidential immunity case comes up. (Every media outlet wrote the same headline, ‘Who is Judge Juan Merchan?’ on the same day. Google search string here.)
In the first week Merchan has already fined Trump for contempt of court. Additionally, this judge, who should have recused himself due to political bias, ordered that Trump cannot use his cell phone in court.
These rulings are unprecedented for any case let alone one involving a defendant who is a former President of the United States and current frontrunner in the 2024 presidential race.
No sitting president has used the Department of Justice to prosecute a former president in the history of this country. These are the tactics of a third-world tin pot dictatorship. Trump’s civil liberties have been violated over and over by these radical Soros-backed lawfare AGs and DAs across four jurisdictions who have for all intents and purposes (that is, allegedly) been told by Biden to get Trump.
Anyone with Trumpathy would shed a tear over Trump’s fiery retort to the judge because he would miss his son’s high school graduation. From Truth Social:
Trump’s populist nationalist movement aka the Make America Great Again/America First political movement he authored in 2015 keeps growing. Some say up to three-quarters of all Americans are on board with Trump and his populist policies.
If the over-the-top reception Trump got in Harlem this week is any indication, Trump may well be adding another voter demographic this time around.
We call the special bond people have with Trump and he has with them — which is clearly founded in empathy: Trumpathy.
TRUMP TAKES HIS MESSAGE AND HIS TRUMPATHY TO HARLEM
See the video below of Trump, while mobbed in the bodega, speaking to the press at the Sanaa Convenience Store this week. (Newsweek article here and under Resources.) He met with the store owner and talked policy with him, his employees, and people in the crowd. The owner, a member of the Bodega Association, issued a statement endorsing the president from the Bodega Association.
Cheers of ‘We love Trump, we love Trump’ provide background in this clip. NYPD officers, beaming ear to ear, posed for pictures with the former president too.
Must see how the kids cheered for Donald Trump. They chanted USA, USA, USA, and later the crowd broke out singing The Star Spangled Banner, watch:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C57LcbpNfXN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Trump says ‘success will be his revenge.’ Success right now for the people’s president — trapped like an animal as he is eight hours a day in a Manhattan kangaroo court — is to campaign in New York City in his after hours. He’s moonlighting just like millions hurt by the Biden economy. After court, he springs into action, back to campaigning, his real job.
“We’re making a big play for New York. We think we can win New York…look at the unemployment. The unemployment is good for migrants now that went up ten percent,” he declared. Trump hinted at more campaign stops in NYC – still his home town – in the weeks to come.
Donald J. Trump, West Harlem, New York (4/16/24)
Steve Bannon called the appearance a ‘tour de force’ and a ‘stroke of genius’ and reported it was apparently cooked up by New York Young Republican Club head, Gavin Wax (follow him on X here), and Trump’s former campaign aide, Jason Miller, now head of GETTR.
Wax, a self-proclaimed populist, said Trump got a heroes welcome with almost no boos. “Thousands lined the streets, they were hanging from fire escapes,” he told Bannon the other day. Wax is becoming an influential figure in New York Republican politics. He organized a well-attended highly successful gala fundraiser at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan late last year with Trump as the keynote speaker. For more, see link.
The photos from this event – now being labeled historic and iconic – are going viral. The New York Post, a Murdoch paper, did a great article on this event. It’s accompanied by wonderful photo gallery too. Click here. A few included below — all from The New York Post:
Politico even posited that Trump worked the crowd “smiling his ass off” as if he might be ‘running for mayor or governor of New York.’ Wow! Not a bad idea IF the powers that be steal it again that is.
The media really works overtime getting their lies straight, don’t they? Here is the lede from the Politico article. Believe it or not, Bannon thought it was rather positive.
“There was Donald Trump, the former president, back in his element and enjoying himself in a crowd, posing for photographs, overstating his standing in the polls and suggesting that he is serious — truly — about winning an impossibly Democratic state.”
“Maybe it was calculated. The setting, a bodega where a man was fatally stabbed in 2022, certainly was. And maybe Trump’s freewheeling performance was, too.”
Politico, 4/17/24 – Link here.
Politico can try to poke fun all they want, but the media and ‘the other side’ know Trump pulled off a campaign win with this ‘calculated’ campaign stop and they know that not even a judges shackles can keep him from his appointed rounds.
Come here, let me hug you!
Here’s Trump hugging Michaela Montgomery, a Chick-fil-a employee who shocked the media by telling Trump ‘black people love you, Mr. Trump!’ and then Trump moved in to hug her. The visit was another surprise stop he made after a Georgia rally. Montgomery did a segment the other week with Jesse Watters to talk about that moment.
Trump and his team are telling people to watch for more campaign events to pop-up in and around New York City. After the jaunt to Harlem, Trump met with Polish Prime Minister, Andrzej Duda at his New York Trump Tower home on Wednesday – his ‘day off’ from court. A rally is scheduled in Wildwood, at the Jersey Shore, for Saturday, May 11. For tickets, click here.
Many observers believe Trump might try to hold a mega MAGA rally at either Madison Square Garden or Yankee Stadium. We hope the rumors are true.
TRUMP TRUMPATHY VISITS ARE ALWAYS MOVING THOUGH
Even though the MSM tried to portray his Harlem stop as an anomaly, we know it was anything but. Trump habitually reaches out directly to people who are impacted by dire events and tragedy.
He went to East Palestine, Ohio in February 2023 right after the Norfolk Southern tank car derailment that caused the biggest, most dangerous hazardous chemicals spill in our history. He called the lack of response to the accident a ‘betrayal.’ Biden visited that town a year later and no one showed up for his appearance. After dragging its feet, Norfolk Southern offered the town and its citizens a $600 million settlement just last week.
Video from that visit here.
On March 9, 2024 Trump Met with Laken Riley’s parents before a rally in Rome, Georgia. Joe referred to her Lincoln, not Laken and never called the parents to offer condolences. Trump said of Biden’s lack of response, “He’s got no remorse, no regret, no empathy.”
Here is what Trump said to the crowd that day about the tragedy of her murder at the hands of an illegal alien, Jose Ibarra, who was a known felon:
“I met her beautiful mother and family backstage,” Trump told the crowd in Rome. “They said she was like the best. She was always the best to us. They admit that she was the best, and she was the first in her class. She was going to be the best nurse. She was the best nursing student. She was always the best. She was the brightest light in every room, they told me.”
Donald J. Trump, Rome, GA (3/9/24)
Screenshot of Trump hugging Laken’s mother from Instagram:
Story and video here.
Jonathan Diller, an NYPD traffic officer, was slain March 25th. According to reports, “The assistant DA said Diller approached Jones’ vehicle parked illegally at a Far Rockaway bus stop. The passenger in Jones’ car, Guy Rivera, allegedly shot Diller in the stomach, just below his vest, killing him.”
Trump went to a service held in his honor a few days after his funeral on Massapequa, Long Island and met with his wife, Stephanie, and other family members and mourners along with a large contingent of NYPD officers.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul made an appearance at the church and was shouted down by the crowd. Biden only offered a statement.
Compare and contrast: The optics of a former president at a slain officers funeral on Long Island — in a his home town but a city that is now prosecuting him on bogus charges — to three president yukked it up on stage later that day at a pricey fundraiser at Radio City in Manhattan.
Two former presidents headlined the event, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and appeared on stage with the current occupant. Tickets went from $5,000 to $100,000. The event reportedly raised $26 million and was the highest amount raised by a campaign at a single event…UNTIL….wait for it…
(Photos: The New York Post.)
…A week later when Trump raised $50.4 million in Palm Beach at an event hosted by billionaire investor John Paulson at his home. It broke records for single day fundraising.
Good report on that event here:
Open the ABC News video for their snark. See the anti-Trump comments for fun.
Compare and contrast: Biden can’t draw 50 people (left) in Scranton, his home town in PA to a campaign event. On his Pennsylvania campaign swing, Biden (right) stopped at a Wawa and no one cared. Trump goes to Chick-fil-a and the place is mobbed. Biden is a free man; Trump is locked in a courtroom eight hours a day as if he is Gulliver tied down by Lilliputians.
Trump has Trumpathy for us…we need to have Trumpathy for him!
Donald Trump needs our thoughts and prayers more than ever as Democrats are reportedly hoping to remove his Secret Service protection if he is convicted in one of these trials. The Democrats are, as we speak, a hair away from taking over the majority in the House of Representatives.
RESOURCES
The New York Post: “Mourners gather for slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller’s funeral on Long Island,” by Georgette Roberts, Larry Celona, and Olivia Land (3/30/24): https://nypost.com/2024/03/30/us-news/slain-cop-jonathan-dillers-funeral-set-for-1030-on-long-island/
NY1: “Trump headlines New York Young Republican Club event in Manhattan” by Staff (12/10/23): https://ny1.com/nyc/manhattan/politics/2023/12/10/former-president-donald-trump-headlines-new-york-young-republican-club-event-in-manhattan-matt-gaetz
Politico: “Smiling his ass off: How Trump used the New York bodega to return to form: Trump is campaigning locally. It’s almost like a “Trump for governor†or “Trump for mayor†campaign that never was” by David Siders (4/17/24): https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/17/trump-trial-new-york-bodega-00152892
Newsweek: “Trump Visits New York Store where Clerk Fatally Stabbed Man in Self-Defense” by Staff (4/16-17/24): https://www.newsweek.com/trump-visits-new-york-store-where-clerk-fatally-stabbed-man-self-defense-1891058
AP News: “Trump goes from court to campaign at a bodega in his heavily Democratic town” by Jill Colvin and Bill Barrow (4/16/24): https://tinyurl.com/43yv79za
The Gateway Pundit, “Creepy Photo Op: Joe Biden Emerges from his Childhood Home in Scranton Holding Hands with Children (Video), by Christina Laila (4/16/24):
The Elegant Trump blog: “Will Success Unite Us as Trump Promises?” by Claudia Logan (2/22/24):
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Special thanks to friend, Wendy Yorke Augustyn for tracking down this week’s featured article image. I had lost it and it perfectly illustrates this article.
