This is why trump is doing rallies

[irisblue]

Dale is a reporter for the Toronto Star, he has been following trump & live tweeting the rallies for quite awhile. As a political tactic, it is very smart and appeals to the worst of our fellow citizens biases, wants & needs.
Daniel Dale (@ddale8) Tweeted:
How these rallies work for Trump no matter how weird the content of his speeches: local media, especially TV but also newspapers, tends to cover them as "president comes to town, draws big crowd, criticizes local Democrat" stories regardless of what he says. https://t.co/K47pMQYZvw

Link to tweet

[Corgigal]

1. Oh, his babysitters put it on his schedule.

He's happy cause they clap like trained seals, babysitter get a nap. Taxpayers pay for all the stupidity.
Wins all around, except for us.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. He is a fascist and a grifter and a malignant narcissist...how could he not do rallies...

[no_hypocrisy]

3. To the people who attend Trump rallies,

this is their version of the circus, perhaps Broadway.

Perhaps a tent revival on steroids.

[Brother Buzz]

5. I'm patiently waiting for technical difficulties in the control booth

[WhiteTara]

9. I call them Republiconned. I use that term in my column

and the term Republicon for the politicians.

[Capperdan]

4. Celebrating Stupid

Clowns and Koolade

[VOX]

6. When the troll is eaten by the same entity that maintains the troll...

Then the snake is swallowing its own tail.

Flabbergasting. Every. Day.

[gratuitous]

7. Don't overlook one very important point here

Local media, especially TV but also newspapers, tends to cover them as "president comes to town, draws big crowd, criticizes local Democrat" stories regardless of what he says.

Trump bypasses the usual national filters, and gets a lot of local coverage. The people of wherever he's appearing, regardless of whether they go to the rally or not, get a full blast of undiluted, uncritical coverage of Trump from the time Air Force 1 is spotted approaching the airport to wheels up. There's lots of local excitement, local pride is stirred up, and the TV and the newspapers easily fill time and column inches with by-the-numbers reporting.

Democrats should be staging rallies, too.

[Hekate]

8. He'a also trying out new routines and punchlines before a live audience to see what works...

I admit he looks like he's having a sundowner, and he may well be doing that too.