Trump's Pennsylvania rally yesterday. He really does think he's Superman now. Where's Lex Luthor when you need him?
From Washington Post:
Triumphant on his second day back on the campaign trail since contracting the coronavirus, Trump polled his rally crowd on how many had also had the virus and then celebrated a supposed immunity, even though that’s not guaranteed.
“Who has had it here? Who’s had it?” Trump asked, as some in the Pennsylvania rally crowd shouted. “I know a lot of people, a lot of people. We are the people I want to say hello to because you are right now immune. You’re right now immune.”
Reinfection is believed to be rare, but there’s still a lot unknown about immunity and how long it lasts.
Trump reasoned he could kiss everyone in the crowd, a recycled line from the previous night’s rally.
“I’d start kissing everybody. I’ll kiss every guy, man and woman, man, woman. Look at that guy. How handsome he is. I’ll kiss him, not with a lot of enjoyment, but that’s okay,” Trump said.
Trump also defended his controversial behavior during the months-long pandemic, during which he has continued to hold large political rallies and White House events with crowds. He and many of his closest aides contracted the virus about two weeks ago.
“I got to get out and have to meet people, and I have to see people,” Trump said. “And I know it’s risky to do that, but you have to do what you have to do.”
Trump lamented his souring support among suburban women voters, begging them during a Pennsylvania rally to like him.
“Suburban women, they should like me more than anybody here tonight because I ended deregulation that destroyed your neighborhood. I ended the regulation that brought crime to the suburbs,” Trump said, referring to an Obama-era anti-segregation rule that his administration ended.
“So can I ask you to do me a favor? Suburban women, will you please like me? I saved your d--- neighborhood,” the president said.
Trump said he’s heard that suburban women don’t like how he talks, but that he doesn’t have time to be nice.
“You know, I can do it, but I got to go quickly. We don’t have time,” Trump said. “They want me to be politically correct.”
Trump predicted that more suburban women, a crucial voting bloc especially in voter-rich suburbs around Philadelphia that tend to be a bellwether for the mood of the country, will vote for him than expected as happened four years ago when pundits predicted he wouldn’t get support from women.