Climate, Covid, insults … Trump signs his return during a meeting in Alaska – The HuffPost

Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesSaturday, July 9, during a meeting organized in Anchorage, Alaska, to support Sarah Palin, Donald Trump made Trump, multiplying exaggerations, mockery and tendentious exits.UNITED STATES – A big family reunion. Saturday, July 9, former US President Donald Trump gave a meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, to support Sarah Palin, perhaps the one who drove the great reactionary and populist turn of the Republican Party in the United States. A town hall meeting that saw Trump… do Trump. Faced with a conquered public and alongside the one who had been chosen to be vice-president by John McCain during the 2008 election that was finally lost to Barack Obama (and a certain Joe Biden), the 45th president of the United States actually reviewed all its flagship subjects: the Covid pandemic and vaccines, global warming, its Democratic (or Republican) opponents, the media landscape or even the electoral system…“I am for arms, God and the oil”And confirming half-word that he will indeed be a candidate for the next presidential election, in 2024, without making an official statement, he thus summed up his project for the United States: “I am for arms, God and oil.” All to thunderous applause. “We may have to do it again.” Donald Trump hints at a 2024 run for President during a #SaveAmerica rally in Anchorage, Alaska. #TrumpRallypic.twitter.com/LH7mBbS5i6— Newsmax (@newsmax) July 10, 2022“Chinese virus” and rising watersBecause the public got what they came for: a former head of state convinced of victory to come up with his ideas, ready for all the excesses (including pronouncing the word “fuck”, a great taboo in American public life) and hammering home the speech he will have held throughout his presidency. Thus, on the subject of climate change for example, Donald Trump did not hesitate to say that there were “bigger problems than that at the moment” and that at worst, the rising waters would offer “some properties with additional sea views, which isn’t the worst thing in the world.”Trump, speaking in Alaska, dismisses climate change and rising sea levels: “We have bigger problems than that. We’ll have a little more beachfront property. That’s not the worst thing in the world.” pic.twitter.com/gXpjaE5pFn— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 10, 2022Same tone on the coronavirus -“or as some aptly call it the ‘Chinese virus’”- topic on which the former president has bragged about his record . And the one who had been booed at previous meetings for having pronounced the word “vaccine” in front of an audience very opposed to vaccination to continue on his crest line: “And in terms of treatments, there is a word that I can’t pronounce, but even that, we did it in nine months when we were told it would take five years, twelve years… We did a crazy job!” Trump: But we did so much in terms of therapeutics and a word that I’m not allowed to mention. But I’m still proud of that word… We did that in nine months, and it was supposed to take five years to 12 years. But I’m not mentioning it in front of my people, pic.twitter.com/uiNoExjUmL— Acyn (@Acyn) July 10, 2022 Major political victory in November? A long session of self-congratulation during which Donald Trump also ventured on societal paths, again to the delight of his audience, such as when he spoke at length on the issue of trans women in top-level sport. A projection that amused the room a lot when he spoke of “exploded 38-second records” or mimed a weightlifting competition easily won by a trans athlete. pic.twitter.com/rqfUw8DTcj— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 10, 2022Ditto when mocking Ketanji Brown Jackson, the black and progressive judge appointed to the Supreme Court by Joe Biden, or attacking Elon Musk, the man who just gave up buying Twitter. Donald Trump, who explained that he had anticipated this retreat, actually sent a spade to this “fucking liar”: “The other day he said he had never voted for a Republican, when he m assured that he had voted for me…” A good opportunity for the billionaire to advertise “Truth”, the competing social network he launched after being banned from all platforms following the invasion of the Capitol. A logorrhea which we will know in November if it will have allowed Sarah Palin to be elected. During the midterms that will serve to renew all of the 435 seats in the US House of Representatives, the former governor of Alaska will seek to succeed Republican Don Young, elected for 49 years until his death in March. last. An election would certainly allow Sarah Palin to regain national stature, and Donald Trump to gain a loyal ally. See also on HuffPost: After abortion, sodomy and contraception in the sights of the Supreme Court?