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Trump Mocks ‘Serious Weight Problem’ of Supporter at His Rally

President Donald Trump ridiculed the physical appearance of a man in the crowd of his Keep America Great rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on Thursday night, telling the guy and everyone watching at home that he had a “serious weight problem” and should get some exercise.

Midway through a rally that had already featured him claiming that the stock market would crash if he weren’t re-elected, Trump’s typically off-the-rails speech was interrupted by demonstrators, and an apparent Trump supporter got up and grabbed a banner from their hands.

Trump, appearing only to spot the general commotion, saw the apparent supporter in the melee and the president took some potshots at the man after it seems he wrongly identified him as a protester.

“That guy has got a serious weight problem,” Trump yelled. “Go home, get some exercise!”

After demanding security escort the man out of the arena, the president appeared briefly self-conscious before returning to his taunts: “Got a bigger problem than I do. Got a bigger problem than all of us. Now he goes home and his mom says, ‘What the hell have you just done?’”

The Daily Mail identified the man who Trump mistakenly identified as a protester as Frank Dawson, and reported that he had no ill will toward Trump. “Everything’s good!” Dawson told Fox News. “I love the guy! He’s the best thing that ever happened to this country.” Trump also reportedly called and left a voice message for Dawson.

The interruption appeared to be led by a group of three young people holding two banners reading “Jews Against the Occupation,” according to a report from The Washington Post.

The organization behind the protest, IfNotNow, also told The Daily Beast that Trump's comments were directed at an individual who was shoving their members after they began chanting “Jews will not be used.”

Trump’s public critique of the man’s physical fitness comes after Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang made headlines Thursday for savagely ripping the president’s own athletic ability.

“I challenge Donald Trump to any physical or mental feat under the sun,” Yang said at an event in Iowa this week. “I mean, gosh, what could that guy beat me at, being a slob?”

He continued: “Like, what could Donald Trump possibly be better than me at? An eating contest? Like something that involved trying to keep something on the ground and having really large body mass? Like, if there was a hot-air balloon that was rising and you needed to try and keep it on the ground, he would be better than me at that? Because he is so fat.”

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by Anonymousreply 21August 19, 2019 10:11 PM

Yes, he does.

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by Anonymousreply 1August 17, 2019 8:02 AM

Did anyone point out to Trump the hypocrisy of him criticizing someone else for being overweight?

I want the press to tell Trump he is the most overweight President since Taft.

by Anonymousreply 2August 17, 2019 8:11 AM

I'm not from the US, but I cannot believe your President would be so vulgar and crass as to insult anyone, let alone his own supporters. What is wrong with you people that you voted for this dreadful man?

by Anonymousreply 3August 17, 2019 8:25 AM

[quote] What is wrong with you people that you voted for this dreadful man?

More than half of us did not.

It's just a flaw in the U.S. Electoral College (plus something called 'Gerrymandering' where Republicans stack the voting deck in their favor) which got him elected.

Unfortunately, the MAJORITY of the population who voted for Hillary Clinton, are still stuck with these fucking asshole.

by Anonymousreply 4August 17, 2019 9:41 AM

R3 our voting booths were hacked

by Anonymousreply 5August 17, 2019 9:46 AM

And today, like every other day for the past four years, one is compelled to ask: why can't this fat tacky racist orange motherfucker just fucking die? Jesus fucking Christ. What a cunt.

by Anonymousreply 6August 17, 2019 9:59 AM

Funny how this Deplorable still licks DUMP's asshole, even after the orange turd attacked him.

"I still love him. He's the best President we've ever had!"

What a dumb fucking asshole. He deserved to be mocked.

by Anonymousreply 7August 17, 2019 5:56 PM

This thread is just concentrated evil. The type of concentrated evil that is “life in America today.”

By the way, I don’t mean you, op. I mean the subject matter.

The obvious place to start is that we have a chief executive who is the sort of man simultaneously loutish and buffoonish enough to say this sort of gross thing about someone else, AND be wrong about it. He seems to do this on a daily basis.

Then of course we turn to the “victim.” Is this country really chockful of people so zombified to Trump that they adore him even after he relentlessly mocks them? How empty must their lives have been pre-Trump ... that they’re now so filled up with adulation that there’s no room in their skull cavities for any rational thought?

And before we leave him, let’s not forget there were some Jewish protestors at the rally, people of enough principle and morality to be protesting Trump’s support for Israeli apartheid — NOT an easy thing for American Jews to do. And yet, this mouthbreathing hillbilly still decided it was fine to use physical violence against them to deny them their right to free speech.

Finally we get to Democrat Yang, who decides it’s totally fine to climb down into the gutter with Trump, to roll around in the rat feces with him in order to make some political points.

America is richer and more powerful than it’s ever been, right now. Is all this crude embarrassing behavior some sort of compensation for that? If so it doesn’t bode well for the human future.

by Anonymousreply 8August 17, 2019 6:22 PM

Turns out he was mocking a Trump supporter, not a Protestor

by Anonymousreply 9August 17, 2019 6:36 PM

nice spoiler r9!

by Anonymousreply 10August 17, 2019 8:01 PM

[quote]"I still love him. He's the best President we've ever had!"

Trump called it himself back in 2016 when he said he could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot someone and they would still support him.

As vile as Trump is, he was smart enough to figure out the mindset of his supporters way back in the 2016 GOP Primaries.

by Anonymousreply 11August 17, 2019 9:34 PM

I'm pretty sure the audited financial statements of his child-trafficking business could be posted to a website and his approval rating would remain eternally between 40% and 45% of the American public.

by Anonymousreply 12August 17, 2019 10:16 PM

[quote]Funny how this Deplorable still licks DUMP's asshole, even after the orange turd attacked him.

I finally understood Dump and his supporters when I realized he was more a cult leader than a politician or businessman.

by Anonymousreply 13August 18, 2019 12:10 AM

I agree with you 100% R8. Particularly about Yang. I don't know how those comments helped Democrats, in the least bit.

It scares the fuck out of me that Trump's words about how he could literally shoot someone on 5th Avenue, and his supporters would still support him, are never more true.

It's like people are willing to DIE for him.

I have never seen a cult of personality like this, in American politics. EVER. And we have had some very popular and charismatic leaders.

trump is neither. But his followers are rabid, nonetheless.

by Anonymousreply 14August 19, 2019 8:26 PM

It's terrifying. These people are happy to be mocked by him, because their idol is at least acknowledging them. It's like when the high school nerd is all too happy to write the popular jock's term paper for him, because he thinks that, maybe one day, it'll lead to him getting into his inner circle. It'll never happen, people. Trump doesn't care about you. I don't even think he feel pity for you. He thinks you're nothing but a bunch of dumb cockroaches.

by Anonymousreply 15August 19, 2019 8:37 PM

[quote] He thinks you're nothing but a bunch of dumb cockroaches.

Why do you think he keeps doing it?

He recognized early on, how STUPID the Deplorables really are.

He SAID it. "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and not lose any voters."

HE SAID IT. But nobody listened, nor believed him. But he knew exactly what he was saying. And he was right.

by Anonymousreply 16August 19, 2019 8:41 PM

He's building up some bad karma. In fact, a whole lifetime of it. When his comeuppance finally hits- it will be yuge.

by Anonymousreply 17August 19, 2019 8:48 PM

It's true. He's going after the uneducated and the ones who think they need a savior. Someone who doesn't tell them that their views are offensive or outdated, who promises them better jobs, more money, and no threat to their precious Christianity.

by Anonymousreply 18August 19, 2019 8:49 PM

[quote]I have never seen a cult of personality like this, in American politics. EVER. And we have had some very popular and charismatic leaders.

Indeed. Good summary.

There have been cults around leaders in other countries and in other times in earlier human history, but this is a first in modern American politics.

There have been charismatic Presidents (eg. Franklin Roosevelt winning 4 terms, JFK, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, etc.) but none of them had a cult like group of followers that were obsessed with them and worshiped them on this level.

by Anonymousreply 19August 19, 2019 9:16 PM

Even after Dotard is gone, we're still going to have to deal with the sickness that his reign uncovered. This is a very troubled country.

by Anonymousreply 20August 19, 2019 9:50 PM

Indeed, R20.

Trump is a bad man in a position of power, but he's still only one man and will be gone some day.

The bigger problem is what he leaves behind -- he turned over a rock in America, and thousands of racists have now come out. What will that lead to in the future?

by Anonymousreply 21August 19, 2019 10:11 PM
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