The Circus Trump Wanted Outside His Trial Hasn't Arrived

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/us/politics/trump-trial-protests.html

https://archive.is/jQdWs

The Circus Trump Wanted Outside His Trial Hasn’t Arrived
With support from demonstrators in Lower Manhattan spotty so far, Donald Trump issued a call to “rally behind MAGA,” and suggested the poor turnout was a result of a plot against his supporters.
By Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Nate Schweber
April 22, 2024 Updated 5:35 p.m. ET

Donald J. Trump was evidently not happy with what he saw out the window of his chauffeured S.U.V. as he rode through Lower Manhattan on Monday morning for the beginning of opening arguments in his first criminal trial.

The scene that confronted him as he approached the dingy courthouse at 100 Centre Street was underwhelming. Across the street, at Collect Pond Park, the designated site for protesters during the trial, only a handful of Trump supporters had gathered, and the number would not grow much throughout the morning.

Mr. Trump has portrayed his legal jeopardy as a threat to America itself, and he has suggested that the country would not put up with it. But the streets around the courthouse on Monday were chaos-free — well-patrolled and relatively quiet. As his motorcade made its way to the courthouse, the few Trump supporters gathered in the park were outnumbered by Trump detractors, who waved signs about his alleged liaison with a porn star.

Mr. Trump had tried to gin up something noisier. Shortly after 7 a.m., he posted on his social media website that “America Loving Protesters should be allowed to protest at the front steps of Courthouses” and he followed this lament with a call for his supporters to “GO OUT AND PEACEFULLY PROTEST. RALLY BEHIND MAGA. SAVE OUR COUNTRY!”

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The RNC should round up volunteers and pay them $100 apiece to hold a sign or something

[Irish_Dem]

1. He is the three ring circus and shit show.

[ms liberty]

2. It has to bother him that his crowds have been shrinking

And he can't command a few thousand idiots into a mob. Bless his heart.

[tblue37]

3. Trump has coopted the RNC's money to pay his legal bills.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Donnie Jr not out there with a bullhorn stirring up the crowd?

[democratsruletheday]

5. he's the village fucking idiot....

and then some!

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Ha! You mean that Trump's alleged BFFs at WABC can't summon their loyal

listeners to come rally for their Boy? John Catsimatidis and Sid Rosenberg, you're losing your touch!

[BigmanPigman]

7. He'll blame it on the guy that set himself on fire

last Friday.

[FSogol]

8. It is too hard to park a super-duty truck or u-haul full of

Nazis in Manhattan.

[Joe Cool]

9. Two reasons

His most ardent supporters and organizers have been dying off the last few years (not just from COVID, but that helped) or have been affected in some way by January 6.

There just isn''t the support for Trump as has been in the case in 2016 and 2020. I live in a predominantly Republican area in western PA. The Trump signs/flags/bumper stickers/attire/other simply are not there as they were in the past.

Enough Republicans might finally be coming to the realization that Trump is a loser and soon-to-be convicted criminal.

[yardwork]

10. Trump is a loser.

This is sinking in. Trump as a loser means that Trump isn't any of the things he's advertised himself as being: strong, smart, outwitting the libs. Trump the vulgar strong man who will save them. But no. Trump can't help them. He's just a loser.