Donald Trump went to Pensacola, Florida on Friday night. I thought I might let you know in case you missed his three tweets about it during the day, since, you know, apparently everyone else missed them.
They were good tweets, too! Or wait, no — they were pretty standard Trump fare:
Big crowd expected today in Pensacola, Florida, for a Make America Great Again speech. We have done so much in so short a period of time…and yet are planning to do so much more! See you there!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2017
On my way to Pensacola, Florida. See everyone soon! #MAGA pic.twitter.com/ijwxVSYQ52
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2017
Just arrived at the Pensacola Bay Center. Join me LIVE on @FoxNews in 10 minutes! #MAGA https://t.co/RQFqOkcpNV
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2017
So let’s see, we’ve got a great big lie, two MAGAs, and a shoutout to the least trustworthy news channel on television for showing his rally on air.
It’s important to note here that nestled in the middle of those tweets was another one, with a voting recommendation in it. Trump had insisted that he wasn’t going to campaign for notorious teen mall employee stalker and child molester Roy Moore, who wants to be the next US Senator from the state of Alabama. And he’s not, he promises! Except:
LAST thing the Make America Great Again Agenda needs is a Liberal Democrat in Senate where we have so little margin for victory already. The Pelosi/Schumer Puppet Jones would vote against us 100% of the time. He’s bad on Crime, Life, Border, Vets, Guns & Military. VOTE ROY MOORE!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2017
That would be Trump’s very first tweet explicitly telling his followers to vote for the future Hell-dweller. Oh, and Pensacola? It’s, um, right next door to Mobile, Alabama. The same media market, in fact. So the rally that Donald Trump threw Friday night in Pensacola was pretty much a campaign event for the Senate seat in Alabama that will be decided on December 12, less than a week away.
And for all the bad stuff I could say about Trump, the man knows how to throw a rally: Plenty of signs handed out to the crowd, rowdy music, incitements to violence, overt racism, and apparently (since it’s Christmastime) some fake snow. In Florida.
As Trump left the stage, there was fake snow blowing from the ceiling. I'm not joking. pic.twitter.com/6FTl2Z5nbE
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) December 9, 2017
But the big story was the fact that all that just didn’t seem to be enough. The multiple tweets, the promise of an over-the-top speech, the indoor weather — it just didn’t add up to a crowd. Trump supporters belong to a special cross-section of society that thinks it’s much bigger than it actually is, but unfortunately, they just can’t fill a stadium. Not even one as small as the 10,000 seat Pensacola Bay Center, an “arena” that hosts KISS concerts whenever there are no minor-league hockey games going on.
.@realDonaldTrump had a little trouble filling the Pensacola Bay Center (capacity 10,000) pic.twitter.com/tpsFgxXecZ
— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) December 9, 2017
Then Saturday morning rolled around, and Donald Trump did exactly what we all expected him to do. First, he confirmed that it was intended to be a rally for Roy Moore, even though he promised he wasn’t going to campaign for Roy Moore, since he’s, you know, a child molester:
GREAT EVENING last night in Pensacola, Florida. Arena was packed to the rafters, the crowd was loud, loving and really smart. They definitely get what’s going on. Thank you Pensacola!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2017
I think all Donald Trump wanted for Christmas was a tax bill to sign and a great big crowd. This rally looked a little more like coal in his stocking.
