The ex-president continued to whine over his rival’s presence in the GOP primaries
Following Nikki Haley‘s vow to fight on with her campaign after her second consecutive defeat to Donald Trump in the GOP primary race, the former president threatened anyone donating to his Republican rival.
A day after Trump’s win in New Hampshire, he took to social media to paint Haley as “very bad for the Republican Party,” and “not the one to take on world leaders.” His words appeared to contradict statements he made in 2017 while in office, after nominating Haley to be his ambassador to the United Nations — a role that required the former South Carolina governor to work with world leaders.
Yet despite previously praising Haley as having a “track record of bringing people together regardless of background or party affiliation,” Trump resorted to name calling in his Truth Social post Wednesday night and claimed he would not accept funds from anyone donating to his opponent’s campaign. “Anybody that makes a ‘Contribution’ to Birdbrain, from this moment forth, will be permanently barred from the MAGA camp,” Trump wrote. “We don’t want them, and will not accept them, because we Put America First, and ALWAYS WILL!”
Trump’s super pissed he has to spend his campaign money on campaigning and not himself or his legal defense.
I’m fine with this, still. Let the local and state parties go broke since everyone is giving it to Trump instead.
Basically the GOP brand is self-destructing. They finally found their peacock and won’t take anything else.
Banned “from” MAGA?
Ok. So MAGA is a political party now. Great. Good job America.
Been that way since 2016. They need to make it official and kill off the GOP name since it’s been dead since McCain passed
Please hurry up and die old man.
If Haley is smart, she’ll sell cards certifying that the bearer is banned from MAGA.
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I want one of these certificates now.
…did he just abolish the Koch Brothers?
I think “cancelled” is the word you’re looking for.
We don’t want them, and will not accept them, because we Put America First, and ALWAYS WILL!
Directed at members of his own party that don’t fall in line. That’s not fucking creepy at all. Nope.
Never forget what that slogan actually means and what sort of people use it.
He really puts the me in aMErica
Donating to Haley is trying to move the party past MAGA. Saying they are permanently banned from the thing they are trying to stop is a little redundant. Like a “oh yeah well you can’t quit because YOU’RE FIRED!”
This man needed to be behind bars years ago.
Like in the 80s.
How will he know? Do they keep a register of folks that donate?
If so is that public knowledge? If it is… How do you keep redhats from getting it and locating folks that donate to her? Seems like this is a call to violent action from him.
It doesn’t need to make sense. It just needs to rouse nationalism in the hearts of fascists.
And yes, violent action. Seems like that will certainly follow.
Nobody is checking the financials of everyone throwing $5 at his campaign, and he’s not turning down 1000’s of dollars from big donors. He’s talking out of his ass as usual, but his base won’t think that far, and love the tough-guy schtick.
Will they start outing each other? “That guy Bob down the street, he’s got a maga sign up. But last month he had a Haley sign. He can’t do that.”
They’ll leave a burning “T” for Trump on Bob’s front lawn. They’ve got the supplies already, just have to take a saw and cut off the cross above the horizontal beam.
He sounds more and more like that famous character with the famous mustache…
You mean Hitler? Trump is pretty similar in regards to amassing a strong base of followers since he is in touch with his supporters. It’s impressive actually how much of a movement he has created whether you like it or not. The hysteria around Trump on Lemmy and how much he lives in the lefts head and consistently gets free press around here is proof of that. Pretty lacking in similarity however in the mass murder of innocents and other terrible things Hitler is actually remembered for. Keep trying though!
He is also similar in making an enemy of the press (Lügenpresse), of fomenting ethno-nationalism (poisoning the blood of our country), blaming and threatening The Other (LGBTQ+, illegals, immigrants, blacks, etc), subverting democratic norms, among other things.
But I guess if he’s your guy you don’t see anything wrong with any of that and instead cheer it on. People like that are pieces of shit.
And of course Hitler worked up to the Final Solution, it didn’t start at scale from the beginning. Did you want to wait to see if he mass murders entire groups before maybe thinking about changing your view of him or what?
But comparison isn’t even needed. Based on his words and actions alone, Trump shouldn’t be anywhere near power, as is obvious to many, but not enough.
He’s not “my guy”. Just putting things in perspective around here. This is fat and content America and not Weimar Germany so good luck putting together a path to a “final solution”. Almost hysterical. Trump seems to be the only one against war unlike almost all establishment politicians. Biden is slinging bombs and artillery like our GDP depends on it…oh it does. I’d love to see some examples of these threats towards “The Others” because I don’t see them. Illegal immigrants, sure, they can gtfo, we have laws for a reason.
We can agree that Trump should not be the President. That is obvious but we should not fear whoever holds the position. The foundational structure of our branched government with functional checks and balances along with the constitution are the reasons America has and will continue to persevere.
I’m going to engage against my better judgement, hopefully you’re open to a civil conversation.
I used to feel like you do a bit, especially before he got elected. My worst case scenario in my head was he would flail around and yell about random things but congress and the judiciary would keep things ore or less the same for the country until the next guy could take over and organize once again. I remember the day he was announced as the winner my wife was freaking out and I chuckled, pointed at these checks and balances, and went on with life.
That lasted maybe a few weeks before I started seeing state reps shift their message to align with the guy no matter what they had done or said in the past and it seemed a little off the rails for America as I knew it. Then senators. Then judges. Now it’s the norm that you toe the line with him if you’re in the party or you don’t stay around to vote otherwise. Checks and balances dont exist unless everyone in power agrees to keep them. The party strategy for years now is simply “do what the guy says” under threat of losing your position or violence. It’s only balanced in theory, and the fact people like you don’t seem to acknowledge it is the concerning thing to me. America WAS great when people could debate civily and slowly move things over a long period of time to what was popular, not when sweeping policies that directly harm immigrants, the poor, and other countries are the hot new thing that everyone jumps on while giving tax breaks to donors and throwing more fuel on the firesof hate and fear. Our country has become an international joke, believe me I traveled a lot over the last 20 years and we really slid off the moral high ground after MAGA became a thing. Make America great again man, I miss it.
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The media’s wall to wall non stop coverage that got him elected in 2016 hasn’t learned anything.
This is an excellent piece that’s related. It’s more about the Harvard president incident, but it applies all the same.
The problem is that whenever a new huckster on then Right emerges, the New York Times falls all over itself to amplify his lies.
When are they gonna start wearing little red armbands?
They do. Red hats.
Thats great. He seems truly threatened.
Democrats in leadership need to start flipping the script and talking about “cancel culture” and “conservative snowflakes” that have no grit and can’t handle a little competition.
That would mean stooping down to their level. One party is comprised of 10 year olds, and one is comprised of 20 year olds. Both are still very immature, but there’s a big difference between them.
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This made me laugh.
I wouldn’t support any presidential candidate who was actively and brazenly trying to force another candidate out of the race, especially one they refuse to debate. I just can’t imagine the irrational thoughts and imaginary fictions going through nearly half this country’s minds. It’s depressing to me that there are humans on this earth who fall prey to these cults. This man is straight up lying to you in one sentence after the other.
It’s Donald Trump and those who support him who hate democracy and this country.
Having re-read my statement here, I can totally see MAGA interpreting this as an equally fair statement about “Biden” and “his efforts” to disqualify Trump from the election. I’m aware of the lies you have been told and continue to regurgitate on your own. Yes, if it were literally Joe Biden and his election campaign (never mind the DNC, the “media”, et al) trying to force a Trump who was not twice impeached and disqualified by a state court to be on the ballot, I would still be opposed to that bullshit. If you qualify to be on the ballot, let the voters decide. Let the voters vote for Haley. Trump has nothing to lose… or does he? Barring people from your cult for giving some money to someone else certainly sounds like someone who’s afraid of something.
Sunk cost fallacy
