POLITICO Playbook: Trump won't get the convention he wants

[brooklynite]

Politico

DESPITE WHAT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WANTS, the idea of a large-scale, celebratory 2020 political convention is a fantasy.

-- IF YOU’RE A COMPANY, a law firm or a lobby shop, why would you ever consider putting any money behind a political convention this year? Would you want your logo anywhere near Jacksonville, Fla., or Milwaukee during Covid-19? Would you want your executives anywhere close to a gathering that has a chance to be a super-spreading event? Would you throw a party? You’d have to be nuts.

-- SENATORS are saying “no thanks.” FIVE SENATE REPUBLICANS taking a pass on the RNC convention this summer: SUSAN COLLINS (R-Maine), per CBS’ CAITLIN HUEY-BURNS; LISA MURKOWSKI (R-Alaska), per CBS’ ELEANOR WATSON; MITT ROMNEY (R-Utah), per WaPo’s MICHAEL SCHERER and JOSH DAWSEY. CHUCK GRASSLEY (R-Iowa) and LAMAR ALEXANDER (R-Tenn.) previously bowed out.

-- TV NETWORKS are vowing to stay away.

-- READ MARC CAPUTO and GARY FINEOUT on this topic: “Trump’s convention bash upended by Florida’s coronavirus crisis.” Perhaps most importantly: “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a close Trump ally, refused to say on Tuesday whether he would lift a rule mandating that indoor gatherings stay under 50 percent capacity — which would hold the Jacksonville convention to 7,500 people.”

[procon]

1. He'll still put on a show of some kind, his ego demands it.

Maybe Trump can do a combo rally and convention starring himself for 2-3 days of nonstop monolog of fun filled faux facts, fear, hate and grievances. He could probably get some low brow entertainers... Religious choirs, some old has-been movie star to do a dramatic reading with an empty chair, or bring back those cute baton twirlers, the family cloggers, a parade of farm implements.

MAGA!

[Luz]

2. Lol. Bigly.

[Hotler]

3. Get the clogging family from the Geico comercial.

I see those guys and I think of the joke, "The Aristocrats" .