This is from Aug. 20, 2022:
When on August 8 the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida in search of classified documents, the ex-president of the United States decried the episode as “an assault [that] could only take place in broken, third-world countries”. He continued to lament that America had “now become one of those countries, corrupt at a level not seen before”.
Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr, chimed in on Twitter with the assessment: “This is what you see happen in 3rd World Banana Republics!!!”
This is not the first time Trump has likened the US to a “third-world country”, which was also his epithet of choice when he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. ...
Nor would it be the last time.
Feb. 18, 2024:
"We are worse than a
third world country":
Trump claims his
"persecution" will lead to
demise of US
March 5:
Former President Donald Trump stuck to his typically pessimistic stump speech when declaring victory on Super Tuesday...
The U.S. is “in some ways . . . a third-world country,” Trump said in a speech late Tuesday from Mar-A-Lago, referencing border security—a key issue in the 2024 campaign—and later adding “frankly our country is dying.”
This was Couch this week:
[Vance] seemed to scoff at the idea that happiness could be enough to win a presidential election.
“Most people in our country, they can be happy-go-lucky sometimes,” Mr. Vance said. “They can enjoy things sometimes, and they can turn on the news and recognize that what’s going on in this country is a disgrace.”
Gloom
and doom? That's not America! The soul of America is the pursuit of happiness. Third world country, banana republic? Nobody in the world
thinks of America as a third world country. Americans don't think they live in a third world country. That is insulting to Americans.That's what trumpie-Couch want us to dance to!
Make America Gloomy Again!
Ms. Harris’s joyful-warrior approach has so far not been substantive from a policy perspective, said John G. Geer, a political scientist at Vanderbilt University.
But Dr. Geer said elections were often decided on valence issues that could generate broad voter consensus. The ideas are not complicated: then and now, better or worse, happy or sad.
It's a FEEL, a vibe.
In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt adopted the song “Happy Days Are Here Again” to offer a promise of a bright future to Americans stricken by the Great Depression.
Kamala should ask viewers in the debate:
"Do you believe with Donald Trump that America is a "third world country"? Or do you believe with me that America is the greatest country and can become a more perfect union?"
