"Pretend I'm on the ballot."
"And now here he was, using his final in-person address before the election to talk more about his chryselephantine fantasies of ballrooms and arches and Corinthian columns."
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Trump Delivers a Closing Midterm Message. Mostly About Landscaping.
On the eve of the election, the president held forth in great detail on columns, drain pipes and granite at the newly refilled Reflecting Pool.
In the history of American politics, the speech may go down as one of the more unusual closing messages on the eve of an election.
And now here he was, using his final in-person address before the election to talk more about his chryselephantine fantasies of ballrooms and arches and Corinthian columns.
I just got up to grab a bite from the fridge (which doesn't work (hasn't in, oh, mebbe 12 yrs)) and laughed out loud to myself at that last.
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The Reflecting Pool...became a symbol of the Trump administration’s dysfunction.
Trump pre-election pitch: Reflecting Pool, pipes and a new promenade
He ended his closing argument by lauding a "golden age," saying, "We were laughed at like we were stupid people."
If you did a cartoon comedy based on this guy, it would bomb, not believable.
7:50 pm:
Supreme Court quickly rejects Trump effort to target alleged noncitizen voters in California
...so quickly that it did not even ask California for its views first...
How quickly, NBC?
...so quickly that it did not even ask California for its views first...
5:41 pm:
I am not making this up
Trump Makes Final Midterm Push Promoting his Reflecting Pool Makeover
Trump Makes Final Midterm Push Promoting his Reflecting Pool Makeover
President Donald Trump opted to forgo the campaign trail and instead focused on his renovations at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, drawing attention to an expensive, problem-plagued repair job in a place far away from most of the people his party wants to persuade.
It was an unusual closing argument for Republicans to keep control of Congress.
Many, e.g. AP
