In Iowa, Donald Trump lashes out at 'media and political elite,' saying they don't know what it's...
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Robynn Tysver
SIOUX CITY, Iowa Donald Trump lashed out at the political elite and the "media" on Sunday, saying they don't know what it's like to live paycheck to paycheck.
In a clear bid to his blue-collar base, Trump told a boisterous crowd of Iowans that if he's elected, he'll make sure their jobs stay in America and that their paychecks will rise.
"The politicians don't understand what it's like, the media and the political elite don't know," said the self-described New York billionaire.
Trump was making what will likely be his last appearance in Iowa before Tuesday's election. He appeared before more than 4,500 people, who stood in line for hours to get into the Sioux City Convention Center.
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R Merm
(409 posts)Lindalouuu
(91 posts)chillfactor
(7,584 posts)in Iowa.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)It only holds 4,500 people?
bucolic_frolic
(43,308 posts)He doesn't understand what he is doing. Ever.
Look at his business record. His personal life.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)I think he might just likes the attention. A few days ago he pointed out, in a speech, that his campaign team was trying to get him to go to areas of South Florida instead of North Florida. Their argument was what you mentioned; he was going to easily win North Florida. He needed to go to South Florida in order to try to convince more people to vote for him. He said he did not want to go to South Florida because all his supporters were in North Florida.
I think Donald Trump mainly likes walking into rooms where most, if not all, the people in the room will cheer for him. It is possible that for Donald Trump campaigning is about being in a room of people and being able to say, "look at all the people who love me".
groundloop
(11,523 posts)Don-the-con has been spoiled his entire life, for him to even suggest that he has the tiniest inkling of what living paycheck-to-paycheck is like is an enormous insult to all working men and women. Don, I HAVE lived paycheck-to-paycheck, I worked my way through college, I've spent many months without a job worrying about whether or not I'd be able to keep my house, I'm attempting to help my kids through college as much as possible so they don't get screwed by the system which is now stacked against them. Donald, YOU JUST DON'T GET IT AND NEVER WILL.
Maeve
(42,288 posts)Good post and happy 5,000th!
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,933 posts)Laf.La.Dem.
(2,946 posts)Good use of that post - congratulations
bdamomma
(63,923 posts)judesedit
(4,443 posts)Trump is a fool and a coward and a liar and a cheat and a thief, etc etc etc. Apparently these Iowans are so uneducated they can't see the forest for the trees. Poor bastards voting against themselves.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)I think a number of Donald Trump's supporters are misinformed. Some of his supporters actually believe he was a regular guy who worked hard, created a business with little to no help, and became a billionaire along the way. It does not help that for 30+ the media has helped to build the myth of Donald Trump. They promoted the stories of Trump being this awesome business man who built great businesses.
Even now some in the media do very little to destroy the myth of Donald Trump. A week or two ago I saw a news reporter make the statement, Donald Trump is right, while Hillary Clinton spent 30 years working in government Donald Trump was building a business. My thought at that comment was, "No, Donald Trump did not spend 30 years building a company. His father spent many years building a company and then passed that company down to his children". Maybe the people at Donald Trump rallies would be less supportive of him and his policies if they knew the truth about him.
TimeToGo
(1,366 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)You'd think with an ego that large, he'd have some self-respect.
Arkansas Granny
(31,532 posts)These people are totally oblivious to anything outside their narrow sphere of existence.
japple
(9,842 posts)well? Didn't need that $12.00 per hour?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)... stiffing small businesses and contractors and ordinary working people by non-payment and then saying
[font size = "+1"] . . . Sue me![/font]
True_Blue
(3,063 posts)Unlike working for Trump.
neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)The man that said "Wages are too high" is going to "make sure... paychecks will rise." Did I hear him correctly?
Of course! He says that he never said "wages are too high." I get it now.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)this ASS HAT can relate to groping from one payday to the next. Right! "Right" as in GOP - Right! as in WRONG.
Birthing another Trump ->
judesedit
(4,443 posts)And doesn't pay the people who work for him, lies to them literally constantly, etc etc etc. Are their heads up their asses or do they just have their noses so far up Trump's ass they can't see the light? It's really mind boggling. Trump has brought out the worst in people and they don't even know it. They think they're independent and strong when they are really puppets of the right wing bullshit. At least we know where they are now.
Tempest
(14,591 posts)getagrip_already
(14,838 posts)The game is rigged and the refs are blind......
judesedit
(4,443 posts)bdamomma
(63,923 posts)he doesn't live paycheck to paycheck jerk
FreeStateDemocrat
(2,654 posts)judesedit
(4,443 posts)appreciate it. Check out the pictures in Esquire magazine of the inside of Trump Tower. It's disgusting. He's stiffed so many people no one will work for him anymore.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)you have to sue him to get your paycheck.
kimbutgar
(21,206 posts)He has no idea. Someone gave him those fake lines.
keithbvadu2
(36,933 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)But a lying, cheating businessman does.
Sometimes, I wish there was an alternate universe that would FORCE these idiots to live under the regimes they think they covet.
Would be terrific to see them perish in a hell of their own making.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)its was so hard.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)Donald Trump does not know what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck. In addition, he is one of the guys that moved American jobs to foreign countries. He also hired illegal workers and paid them less than American workers.