‘Whoever Had This Idea Is Getting Fired’: Trump Mocked After Disastrous Speech
Republican met with merciless booing at Libertarian convention
Although Donald Trump’s campaign seems to have thought an appearance by the former president to win over Libertarian voters would be some kind of political masterstroke, all it got him was merciless mocking both at the event and online.
In a highly unusual move, the presumptive Republican nominee for president addressed the convention of a rival political party, in this case, the national Libertarian gathering in Washington DC.
It did not go at all well for Trump, whose speech was nearly continuously punctuated by loud catcalls and booing from those in the room.
One attendee even suggested, “I’d like to propose that we go tell Donald Trump to go fuck himself.”
Trump’s humiliation didn’t end in the room, as it quickly spilled over on social media.
Well-known journalist and Democratic influencer Ron Filipkowski just kept tweeting jabs at Trump all night and into the next morning.
“Trump didn’t go to the Libertarian Convention because he ‘had the courage to speak to people with opposing views!’” Filipkowski posted on X (formerly known as Twitter). “He thought he was going to roll them, con them, manipulate them - just like with his cult. But it backfired. Trump is despised outside his cult. That proved it.”
He also posted a brutal headline from the news site, The Drudge Report:
After getting booed for 20 minutes Trump finally gets pissed and snapped, repeatedly, at the hostile crowd, Filipkowski reported.
“This is a disaster for Trump. He’s sweating like a pig. Reading his speech five times faster than normal trying to get the hell out of there while being loudly booed and heckled the whole time. Whoever had this idea is getting fired,” he added.
Filipkowski hardly was the only one trolling Trump online.
A popular social media user called Dave Ryder posted: “Trump tried to crowd out Libertarians with MAGAts at the Libertarian Convention, it didn't go well for him: they booed him mercilessly, he turned beet red, started stuttering, and looked like he was going to start crying 😢 What a PAB snowflake ❄️”
And Kyle Griffin, a producer at MSNBC, posted: “Trump was booed and heckled — several times — during his speech at the Libertarian National Convention: One member of the crowd shouted, ‘Lock him up!’ and another yelled, ‘Donald Trump is a threat to democracy!’
“Moments later, someone yelled at Trump, ‘You had your shot!’ Others yelled at Trump, ‘Fuck you’ and ‘You already had four years, you asshole.’”
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