GOP pundit explains why Trump's greatest hits won't save campaign: 'This time around he's fat Elvis'

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October 19, 2020
By David Edwards

Republican commentator Charlie Sykes on Monday predicted that President Donald Trump cannot win by simply repeating his “greatest hits” on the campaign trail.

“It’s inexplicable to me that he’s still campaigning against Hillary Clinton,” MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell told Sykes after Trump chanted “lock them up” at a recent rally.

“He’s playing his greatest hits,” Sykes explained. “He’s playing all the hits from 2016. The problem is that this time around he’s fat Elvis. It feels derivitive because 2016 is a different time. Nobody cares about Hillary’s emails anymore.”

“Yes, it is disturbing to have a president of the United States make it his signature line to imprison — indict and imprison — his political opponents,” he noted. “But this is again a guy who seems to have lost the narrative here.”

[Mme. Defarge]

1. Fat Elvis!

Mais ça c’est parfait!

[Illumination]

8. Remember the Elvis visuals? Not just fat...but sweaty, drugged out, etc.? 1977 was his last

concert run. Could this be Trump's last run as well?...

[bucolic_frolic]

2. How about Fat Hitler? Does it fit better? /nt

[ResistantAmerican17]

3. He's Spinal Tap, when they were opening for puppet shows.

[niyad]

4. Hey, sykes, fat hitler never HAD a narrative. And, since you were clearly not paying

attention, the "lock her up" insanity right now is about Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. You know, the governor whose kidnapping and possible assassination was plotted by some of that murdering orange traitor's sycophants??

FU


By the way, Elvis had real talent, unlike the thug you adore.

[Jimbo S]

15. Sykes is a never Trumper

but his years on RW radio led us to this point.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Sykes, as a never-Trumper, has never adored tRump. . . . nt

[Oscarthegreat]

5. I would say

More like fat Meatloaf.

[Fritz Walter]

9. This Meatloaf?

In my annual ramp-up to Halloween, I watched this movie again last week. Truly a classic, but home viewing is not quite the same experience as an in-theater performance.

[lagomorph777]

16. But Meatloaf was great when he was fat.

That was the prime of his career.

[calimary]

10. Welcome to DU, Oscarthegreat!

Fat Meatloaf would fit!

Or just plain ol' Fat Ass.

I find myself curious about what kinds of vitals we'll finally get, after donald breathes his last. Like his REAL weight, for example. As well as his physical condition. I'm curious about his blood pressure levels, his cholesterol levels, medications he's been taking, AND how much steroid usage there's been. And will that info ever be released? Or would we have to do a formal FOI request?

[Wounded Bear]

6. Most of us didn't care about Hillary's emails the first time...

[Fritz Walter]

7. In oh-so-many ways!

I’m not an Elvis fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I think that metaphor is a bit unfair to the King’s legacy.

Sure, the physical and mental declines are similar, especially factoring in alleged substance abuse. But the King actually had talent. Whereas...

And as for their fan bases, it amazes me how some people throw all reasoning aside in fanatical devotion to a “performer,” long after the performances spiral down.

[Aviation Pro]

11. More like Fat Nixon

....

[flibbitygiblets]

12. You beat me to it, AP! /nt

[Hugin]

13. Butter males!

When your rhetoric has made it into the Urban dictionary in contracted form... You are done.

[LiberalLovinLug]

14. Well, its Hunter's emails now

But even with this update in the "evil emailer" angle, its a fail IMO. Only the Trump cultists, in the minority, are gullible enough to lap up all the mud that Trump throws at the wall for them.

[lagomorph777]

18. The Hunter fake emails thing is just too complicated for a MAGAT to follow.

Besides, it's all disproven and just nutty and tenuous.

[Evolve Dammit]

19. Elvis was never a sociopath and intent on destroying everyone who doesn't worship him.