It turns out that Donald Trump did not run for president because he wanted to “make America great” — he just wanted to be showered with balloons and confetti as thousands of morons cheered for him.
The revelation comes from GOP strategist Alex Castellanos, who relayed the story of Trump attending the 1988 Republican National Convention at the Superdome in New Orleans when then-Vice President George H. W. Bush became the party’s presidential nominee.
Trump was not really interested in running for president at the time, but Trump’s longtime associate Roger Stone brought him there for the purpose of stoking Trump’s interest.
“My friend Laury—Laurance Gay—Laury got a call from Roger: ‘Hey, there’s a young business guy who wants to be on the floor,’” Castellanos told Politico. “‘He wants to be there when the balloons drop, the confetti falls, the band strikes up. He wants to see all that.’”
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And all it took to capture Trump’s interest was a bunch of balloons and fanfare.
‘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,” Trump reportedly said.
“Those were his exact words. I will never forget them. ‘This is what I want,’” Gay said. “And at that point, there was only one thing in mind that he could’ve wanted, which was to be president of the United States. I mean, he wanted to be up on that stage …”
Sure he did. But not because he wanted to make a difference in people’s lives. As it has always been, it’s all about him. Trump didn’t want to be president until he saw George H. W. Bush being adored by thousands of cheering supporters and being showered with balloons and confetti instead of Russian pee.
And when Trump took the stage at the 2016 Republican convention, he got those balloons — 120,000 of them — which just happens to be nearly the same number of Americans who have died from coronavirus under his watch.
This presidency has never been about people or the country. It’s always been about Trump and his ego. And that ego has only been getting more inflated since 1988.
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