White House weighs tapping substitutes for Trump on the road after affordability rally veers off-script: 'He's stubborn'
Source: Independent
The White House may lean on surrogates to drum up support for President Donald Trumps economic agenda ahead of next years midterms, according to a new report, which comes after the president veered off script at a recent rally on affordability.
While many Trump supporters are glad to see him back on the campaign trail, some allies acknowledged the president is an imperfect messenger when it comes to his ability to quell voter concerns about the economy, Politico reported.
The White House may lean on surrogates to drum up support for President Donald Trumps economic agenda ahead of next years midterms, according to a new report, which comes after the president veered off script at a recent rally on affordability.
While many Trump supporters are glad to see him back on the campaign trail, some allies acknowledged the president is an imperfect messenger when it comes to his ability to quell voter concerns about the economy, Politico reported.
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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-affordability-rally-economy-white-house-b2882875.html
travelingthrulife
(4,463 posts)Which liars will be chosen to rally MAGA?
OldBaldy1701E
(10,226 posts)Get some actors, pay them a lot of money, plastic surgery, and then start touting his 'recovery'.
As crazy as it sounds, the faithful will still buy it.
ck4829
(37,426 posts)no_hypocrisy
(54,322 posts)MAGA only has eyes for their orange God-King.
J.D. Vance? Yawn.
Ivanka in a tight skirt with a side-slit? Nice for five minutes.
It's DJT or nobody.
Leghorn21
(14,023 posts)nope, NOBODY
HA HA
hoosierspud
(214 posts)He's so charismatic!
AZ8theist
(7,104 posts)Big Blue Marble
(5,666 posts)Expect to see more retirements. So sad Trump has lost his mojo.
MyOwnPeace
(17,446 posts)he doesnt even know what the fuck hes talking about!
Great job, GOP!!!
Nictuku
(4,567 posts)FakeNoose
(40,238 posts)Whether we pay for the other staffers, I'm not sure. They're supposed to do campaigning on their own time, you know, off the clock. Is that really happening? I doubt it.
not fooled
(6,608 posts)for these desperation rallies--wouldn't be the first time.
11 Bravo
(24,279 posts)then I have to agree.
PatSeg
(52,226 posts)I can easily imagine what they were really thinking and I think you nailed it.
sop
(17,492 posts)Must be really hard working for an insane, demented old man who won't listen to anyone.
Deminpenn
(17,301 posts)Javaman
(65,135 posts)The Roux Comes First
(2,156 posts)There are obviously plenty of brain-dead cadavers available - even without putin propping them up full time.
MLWR
(783 posts)are covering for a mentally deficient whom THEY decided should run the country.
Prairie Gates
(7,216 posts)He's too sick and old to continue.
ShazzieB
(22,227 posts)I've been following the news about his condition too closely not to know what bad shape he's in. When the plan for these rallies was announced, i was very skeptical that he'd last long. Doping him up could work for an event here and there, but it's not sustainable. Sooner or later, he'd collapse completely or maybe even drop dead, possibly in from of a crowd of his adoring fans. We wouldn't mind that at all, but even Repubs aren't stupid enough to think their pathetic excuse for a party could survive that.
They must be getting really desperate if they think sending out surrogates will do any good, and I for one will applaud when they fall flat on their lying faces.
lonely bird
(2,779 posts)He is both the perfect Republican messenger in that he lies and rambles and is also mentally damaged
Blasphemer
(3,579 posts)moose65
(3,440 posts)When an article like this says The White House does this or that, what does that even mean?
Trump IS The White House isnt he??
highplainsdem
(60,105 posts)reACTIONary
(6,987 posts)There are "signs" and "people close to the White House" saying things....
People close to the White House see value in other messengers like Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent helping to carry the White Houses affordability message, while the president focuses on motivating his die-hard supporters who might not otherwise vote when he isnt on the ballot.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/10/never-going-to-be-pitch-perfect-trump-loyalists-see-an-imperfect-messenger-00685649?utm_medium=bluesky&utm_source=dlvr.it
Deminpenn
(17,301 posts)The people who will go to his rallies will probably fit inside a drive-thru Dunkin' Donuts.
lonely bird
(2,779 posts)Oh, please, please, please!
Those two idiots would fuck things up even worse.
murielm99
(32,707 posts)Someone involved in the hearings kept getting phone calls from "the White House." He told his staff to reply that he was busy and not able to speak with Mr. House at that time.
BaronChocula
(4,044 posts)"Sorry guys, Chucky Manson couldn't make it, but here's Larry."
Who else would they bother to go see lie?
ck4829
(37,426 posts)Mawspam2
(1,085 posts)...bumbling, stumbling, rumbling Pennsylvania casino rally. Who do they think is going to show up at some JD Couchfucker rally?
Deminpenn
(17,301 posts)The ballroom's capacity as configured was only reported at 600 or so,
KPN
(17,146 posts)More importantly, any crowd that does show will probably do so to run them out of town.
twodogsbarking
(17,592 posts)twodogsbarking
(17,592 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,191 posts)Where they cant chance putting him in front of a live mic anymore.
SheltieLover
(76,924 posts)Cirsium
(3,389 posts)The only thing Trump could ever do was his bizarre cult rallies. Everything else is a product of his deranged imagination. If he can't do his idiotic rallies, he is done.
Who knew dictatoring would be so hard?
C_U_L8R
(48,897 posts)ck4829
(37,426 posts)BigmanPigman
(54,603 posts)Until he drops dead of a stroke while on live TV telling us how the news of his health is just a game Dems play.
Vthestate
(43 posts)The fluff article is a nothing burger. The chumps on the second string will convince no one.
it's all over but the crying.....Trump has no clue what to do once the insurance bills start rocking his world.
Uncle Joe
(64,254 posts)Thanks for the thread highplainsdem.
Nasruddin
(1,178 posts)Take it away Roger & Pete!
Substitute your lies for fact
I can see right through your plastic mac
I look all white, but my dad was black
My fine looking suit is really made out of sack
Martin68
(27,089 posts)Skittles
(169,667 posts)ugh
rsdsharp
(11,801 posts)that the way they were going to win the midterms was to have Trump campaign like it was 2024.
Oh, wait. It WAS only yesterday!
Martin68
(27,089 posts)Drum
(10,570 posts)Send out cray-cray Donald and roll the dice, or present the surrogates and have attendance of about 50 per gig.
GusBob
(8,136 posts)Hed better better even
Marie Marie
(10,900 posts)the venue's 4 front rows.
PortTack
(35,815 posts)Make no mistake he got the biggest infusion of his hate filled energy ever. I give him a week before he says ther quiet part out loud, that he alone was able to destroy the biggest accomplishment of the black man filthy fucker!
ck4829
(37,426 posts)Deminpenn
(17,301 posts)Let's be honest, this is a guy who is busy plastering his name and face on everything he can to satisfy his egomania. Suzie Wilds and company think that guy is going ceded the limelight to Vance or Bessent? No way.
Not only is Trump not going to quit this campaign tour, but he'll probably insist on doing multiple rallies a day. It's conventional wisdom that the more Americans see of Trump the less they like him. The more public appearances, the better.
There was a story in the local paper that quoted one guy at the rally saying this was the 50th time he'd travelled to see Trump. At some point even those cultists will be heading for the door.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,584 posts)He'll be criticizing and tweeting the speakers. Saying how he should have been there. Especially if there are empty stadiums, or gawd help him, boos.
ShazzieB
(22,227 posts)I'm not saying, it definitely WILL, just that it could. People know how much they are paying for groceries, gas, housing, and utilities. They know how much they're having to skimp on Christmas presents. The ones who have lost or are about to lose things like SNAP benefits, Medicaid, and/or ACA health care subsidies know or are going to know that they don't have enough to eat, that they can't afford to go to the doctor or fill prescriptions.
All Schlump has to offer are lies and more lies. People can't live on lies. People can't eat lies, fill their gas tank with them, or wrap them up and give to them to their kids for Christmas. Only the most brainwashed diehard MAGA morons, the numbers of which are dwindling daily, are going to fall for these affordability rallies or whatever they're calling them.
Surely there's a tipping point somewhere, a point when the number of true believers will no longer be sufficient to outweigh the rising tide of those who are aware of how bad off they are and mad as hell about it. I don't know where that point is, but I think we will all know when it happens, and I am really looking forward to it.