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Donald Trump needed to go to Alabama for what ought to have been a morale increase for his failing presidency, to talk on the College of Alabama graduation handle. It ought to have been an enormous and adoring crowd, as Alabama has at all times been a stronghold of Trump assist.
Here’s a shot of the venue ten to fifteen minutes earlier than Trump got here on:
In response to journalist Ryan Phillips on X:
“When [UA President Stuart Bell] known as, it took me two seconds to say I’d go.
” This appears to contradict UA saying: “UA is honored to have been chosen as one of many universities President Donald Trump will go to to ship a spring graduation handle.”
Trump claimed on Thursday night time that the College of Alabama invited him, but it surely seems that he selected to go to Alabama and was confronted with empty seats.
Phillips additionally identified on X that facility members and college students reserved seats for Trump’s speech with no intention of going, in order that they’d be left empty.
Donald Trump is so unpopular that he can’t replenish a constructing in deep pink Alabama. The Trump mandate seems to be like a sea of empty pink seats.
The media appears terrified to cowl Trump because the presidential failure that he seems to be, which is the issue with caving to the whims of any president for entry. The media is now caught with a failure that they’re afraid to name a failure, or else they could be retaliated in opposition to by the White Home.
The empty seats are an indication that even in probably the most supportive components of the nation, individuals are uninterested in Trump.
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