'This is What I Want': Why Trump Needs a Packed Convention

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A flurry of confetti, 150,000 balloons and nonstop applause stoked the New York developer’s need to be the man on stage.

By MICHAEL KRUSE

05/28/2020

Donald Trump wants crowds, people packed tight, showing shoulder-to-shoulder support, cheering and chanting and sporting shirts and hats and waving banners and signs with his name when he makes his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention the last week of August in Charlotte. The president kicked off this post-Memorial Day week with tweeted demands of a “guarantee” of “full attendance” or else.

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Roger Stone, Trump’s earliest and longest-running political adviser, had spearheaded that trip, [1988 gop convention] ferrying the 42-year-old real estate developer and casino owner from event to event, setting up interviews with reporters, all in an attempt to stoke his interest in a prospective electoral bid. And on the last night of the extravaganza, August 18, 1988, Stone asked an associate to take Trump down to the floor of the Superdome to watch George H.W. Bush accept the nomination.

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“So we went down there, and the speeches were made,” Gay recalled, and Bush capped his remarks by placing his hand on his heart and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, and then Barbara Bush joined him on the podium, and the rest of his family, and their families, and Dan Quayle, his pick for vice president, and his family, “and there’s 25 people out there, and with that, the band strikes up, the confetti starts to fall, the balloons are rising and falling,” 150,000 of them, red, white and blue, and there were 15-plus minutes of sustained, ecstatic sound.

And in the middle of this scene, Trump said something, not quite to Gay, who was immediately to his left, but loud enough for him to hear.

“This is what I want.”

“I’m sorry,” Gay said.

Trump looked at Gay.

“This,” Trump said again, “is what I want.”

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Once a megalomaniac always a megalomaniac.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. He should have such a convention. With coffin-shaped balloons bearing names.

[Initech]

2. OK he can have his rah rah rally.

Then quarantine all attendees inside the venue for two weeks.

[Phoenix61]

3. And that's all he wants. None of the

Responsibility that goes with all that.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. I suspect it takes ever larger crowds to feed the Pig's pathology.

That is why he covets having the power Putin or Un has.

[gratuitous]

5. Cacophony Base here; the Ego has landed

Needy Amin MUST be catered to.