Trump angrily denies planning to move the Republican National Convention to his Miami golf resort
Donald Trump tweeted a warning to North Carolina’s Democratic governor earlier this morning that he would move this year’s Republican National Convention from Charlotte if the state didn’t start to relax its pandemic restrictions, using his Ukraine-scandal quid pro quo negotiating techniques to push his deadly priority of valuing the economy and his own need for mass adulation over people’s health and safety.
…full attendance in the Arena. In other words, we would be spending millions of dollars building the Arena to a very high standard without even knowing if the Democrat Governor would allow the Republican Party to fully occupy the space. Plans are being….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020
…to find, with all of the jobs and economic development it brings, another Republican National Convention site. This is not something I want to do. Thank you, and I LOVE the people of North Carolina!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020
As much as many may relish the thought of “many thousands of enthusiastic Republicans” gathered together in close quarters in the midst of a pandemic, the collateral damage that such a super-spreader event would cause has cooler heads realizing that only Donald Trump could be promoting such a spectacularly deadly idea.
Trump’s insistence on conducting the Republican Convention with all its traditional trappings in conventional form as a mass gathering reveals not just his magical thinking that the virus will somehow miraculously disappear — a notion that defies all available scientific evidence — but initiated speculation that the president was looking to move the convention to one of his failing resorts like the Trump National Doral Miami where he suggested that the next G-7 summit meeting (or G-8, if he manages to convince the other six countries to allow Russia to attend) be moved to the condemnation of government ethics watchdogs everywhere.
Trump saw the speculation and tried to head off any further controversy by denying the speculation.
I have zero interest in moving the Republican National Convention to Doral in Miami, as falsely reported by the Fake News @nytimes in order to stir up trouble. Ballroom is not nearly big enough & would like to stay in N.C., whose gov. doesn’t even know if he can let people in? https://t.co/nqBBPv4VXS
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020
Unfortunately for the president, his denial only served to confirm the fact that his earlier tweets were indeed a form of political extortion against a Democratic governor who is merely trying to safeguard the people of his state and follow the guidelines published by scientific and medical experts, including Trump’s own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The response to his post on Twitter denying the rumor was brutal.
Or, he can have the crowded convention in an ultra #MAGA city and let natural selection run it's course!
— Kushbreath416 (@kushbreath416) May 25, 2020
#MorbidlyObeseDonald pic.twitter.com/lh9OWxZQ8c
— Dexter (@DexterBoiGenius) May 25, 2020
https://twitter.com/glamelegance/status/1264991555754000390?s=20
— Pantomath (@pantomath__) May 25, 2020
Amen!#VoteBlueToSaveAmerica2020 https://t.co/GgtMiw8dbJ
— LibTees (@LibTees) May 25, 2020
Majority North Carolinians elected @NC_Governor … obviously #gop doesn’t respect the majority of NC. 😐
— AJ (@smartlyjoan) May 25, 2020
Pack the Republicans in a closed building, the more the merrier. For weeks at a time. No masks or social distancing allowed.
For the survivors, it’ll be good practice for federal prison, after the GOP loses the election & faces real penalties for their crimes.
MAGA & whatnot
— Martin Neiman (@Tackspayer) May 25, 2020
Yup. SHowing how it's done!
Unlike these guys: pic.twitter.com/jWwevVYjG7
— Tad Macy (@tadmacy) May 25, 2020
Trump keeps WHINING about the "fake" news, but…
Trump is gonna FREAK when he sees this. So let's make sure he does.
ORANGE CRUSHED: More Americans Trust CNN than Either Trump or Fox Newshttps://t.co/u0EBHVfhfq
— News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) May 25, 2020
Trump has already made it plainly obvious that he cares not a whit about the health and safety of Americans, even his most rabid — and potentially contagious — supporters.
His extortionate demands to North Carolina’s Democratic governor drives his indifference home even further.
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