Donald Trump’s his increasingly aggressive speaking style drew attention again over the weekend in Ohio when he delivered a 90-minute campaign speech.
The most attention was his threat that if he is not elected president, a “massacre” will begin in the United States.
He did not specify what he was referring to by the carnage. Previously, however, he had spoken about the impact of cars imported from China on the US car industry as a matter that he would intervene in as president.
Trump also said in Ohio that Barack Obama and Joe Biden would have faced each other in an election somewhere and that Biden would have won.
– Do you know what is interesting? Joe Biden defeated Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him? In every state of the scale, Biden beat Obama, but in other states he lost, Trump said.
Biden did compete with Obama in the 2008 Democratic primaries, but dropped out as soon as the first state results came out. It’s hard to know what Trump meant.
Biden later served as Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2017.
According to the US media, the fact that he had to speak without a prepared text may have contributed to Trump’s confused performance. The strong wind prevented the use of the teleprompter.
Made up story about Zelensky
In his speech, Trump also told a special story about a phone conversation he had with the president of Ukraine in 2019 to Volodymyr Zelensky with. According to Trump, the Democrats at the time were spreading “wild claims” about what was said during the call. Trump claimed in a speech on Saturday that his office would have released a recording of the call after the call and that it would have embarrassed Democrats.
News channel CNN has done a fact check to the point. According to it, the call was not recorded, as the calls of heads of state usually are not. So Trump’s story was completely made up.
The officials who listen to the calls record the contents of the calls from memory. A former army lieutenant colonel followed the call Alexander Vindman says in an interview with CNN that Trump’s speech was “a complete lie”.
Kudos to the Congress usurpers
Trump also, for example, called Biden “stupid” several times, used the Democratic governor of California From Gavin Newsom nickname “new-scum”, meaning “new-scum” in Finnish. Trump also barked at the Illinois governor who criticized him By JB Pritzker appearance, tells for example Guardian magazine.
At the beginning of his campaign events, Trump has made a habit of holding a moment of silence in honor of the people who received prison terms because of the January 6 takeover of Congress. Trump calls them “Biden’s hostages”.
Counterattacks from Biden
President Joe Biden recently took a stand on Trump’s speeches. At the traditional Gridiron Club dinner event, it has been customary to make jokes at the expense of political opponents.
81-year-old Biden has been considered too old to run for another presidential term. He made a joke out of it.
– One candidate is too old and mentally incapable to become president. That other one [ehdokas] it’s me, Biden fired on Saturday.
He also brought up Trump’s speech, says someone close to the Republicans, among other things Washington Examiner magazine.
– Don’t tell him, but he thinks his opponent is Barack Obama. That’s what he said, Biden laughed at the audience.
‘s reporter followed the event in Ohio
Editor of Jaakko Keso attended the event on the ground at the Dayton Airport in Ohio on Saturday.
Trump participated in the Republican senatorial bid for Ohio By Bernie Moreno at the campaign event as a guest speaker. According to him, there was a cheerful atmosphere at the airport before Trump’s arrival.
– Trump arrived at the event clearly late than the announced schedule. Finally, the theme music of the movie Top Gun began to roar and the audience was played a recording of the conversation between Donald Trump’s private plane and Ohio air traffic control, in which “Trump Force One” is granted permission to land.
A moment later, Trump’s plane appeared from around the corner of the terminal, and Trump walked slowly and grandly in front of his audience.
– The big themes of Trump’s speech focused on immigration and the border crisis, on how the president Joe Biden the administration has ruined everything, as well as left-wing criticism.
The themes in question also evoked the strongest reaction in the audience, says Keso.
Keso himself said that he was surprised by the massacre speeches that made headlines after the speech. According to him, incitement to violence was not at the center of Trump’s speech.
“There was a happy festival atmosphere in the area”
The official number of participants for the event has not been published. According to Keso’s cautious estimate, the ex-president of the United States had attracted an audience of about a thousand people. By the end of the speech, which lasted almost an hour and a half, about a third of the audience had disappeared.
– White men aged around 40-50 stood out among those who participated in the campaign event. There were also some African-Americans in the audience, while other minorities were conspicuous by their absence.
In Keso’s opinion, the gender distribution of the participants seemed fairly even. In terms of age structure, the audience mainly consisted of middle-aged and young adults.
During the event, Keso says that he talked with several people who participated in the event.
– All the people were really nice. There was a happy festival atmosphere in the area, but still no one was drunk.
According to Keso, people’s most common reasons for supporting Trump were that, like Biden, he doesn’t mix up his words and fall, or look tired and old to the eyes.
– Trump is seen to still have power and he is perceived to lead the country like a businessman. He is considered to be cheeky in a good way and daring to say how things really are.
In addition, Trump’s supporters feel that foreign leaders, such as China Xi Jinpingof Russia Vladimir Putin or North Korea Kim Jong-un respect him differently than Biden, Keso describes.
– According to people who followed the speech, radical left-wing values have not corrupted Trump like Biden. During the Biden administration, the US economy is also seen to have weakened significantly.
Sources: AP