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Donald Trump says people with little boats wanted to go out into the storm during Hurricane Harvey to show their wife how great they are.
Watch the Trump rally in Texas here, courtesy of @NBCDFW. https://trib.it/1BY
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peekaloo
(22,977 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)one of the 'little guys who think they have a great boat"....is one of his enemies or friends who isn't one anymore.
Botany
(70,567 posts)Little boats??????
dawg day
(7,947 posts)It's not even clear that he has a purpose for making these things up. He just... makes them up. Just because he can.
And the Trumpists there in Texas, who KNOW he's just making things up-- something that makes them look like idiots ("little boats in a hurricane" -- they just nod and cheer, because the diarrhea is falling out of THAT mouth.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)2naSalit
(86,775 posts)...but you're probably right!
irisblue
(33,020 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,594 posts)Didn't he go off on this riff earlier? I don't have the patience anymore to look it up.
I'm not dissing your post, but I think this is turning into one of his themes, not just a one-time brain salad dropping.
deminks
(11,017 posts)exboyfil
(17,865 posts)in the Cajun Navy and other organizations like that who actually do rescue people trapped by the flooding?
Why can't we make campaign ads of this stupid crap?
DinahMoeHum
(21,806 posts)2naSalit
(86,775 posts)RobinA
(9,894 posts)he insulted the Reserves last week when he said that if the "caravan" tried to get into the United States he would get the military involved, "not the Reserves, the United States military..." I was surprised that didn't hit the fan.
area51
(11,919 posts)Op-eds in the Houston Chronicle excoriated him for it. Here's a link to a Politifact article on it.