Donald Trump’s recent campaign rallies reveal a troubling decline in political coherence and public credibility. Despite being in Republican-leaning states, he faces growing disapproval, with polls showing his approval rating in the low 30s. His speeches are marked by incoherence, absurdity, and inappropriate content—such as discussing opponents’ bodies, making false claims about Mexico funding the border wall, and suggesting renaming the Gulf of Mexico as payment. These remarks are factually inaccurate and widely perceived as out of touch, especially when delivered to children or in public discourse. Trump’s lack of policy ideas, frequent memory lapses, and reliance on speechwriters further signal a loss of leadership credibility. While a dedicated base remains loyal, the majority of Americans appear disillusioned, with polling and public reaction indicating a weakening Republican foundation ahead of the midterms. The content of these rallies reflects not only poor governance but a disconnect between Trump’s messaging and real public concerns like inflation, war, and economic stability. Despite this, the political momentum among MAGA supporters remains, emphasizing the need for voter engagement in close, competitive races.
This is the clearest indicator yet of how much trouble Republicans are in in the upcoming midterm elections.
Donald Trump had a rally today in Kentucky.
We are three weeks away from the midterm elections,
and Trump is campaigning in a Republican state that they should be winning by a lot,
but clearly him and his political operation feel like things aren't as certain in this state as they'd like it to be.
And this has been a trend for Donald Trump.
He's been doing these campaign rallies across the country,
but the location of these rallies has been very interesting.
They've either been in very Republican states or very Republican districts
because he's falling behind in areas that he shouldn't be,
and he's trying to shore up the vote.
So I want to talk about this story.
I want to talk about the midterm rally he held today
with a lot of the weird talking points that he decided to use.
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And here's another indicator that things are not going well for Donald Trump and the Republicans.
He's been heckled in every single speech he's done so far for the midterm elections.
And today was no different.
He got interrupted by a protester as he was trying to finish his thought.
So here in Kentucky's 4th District, we're going to send Ed Gowrind to the U.S. House of Representatives.
And he's going to be, he's going to be a perfect man.
Now, I needed somebody good, and this guy walks through the door.
I said, look at this beautiful guy.
He shook my hands.
He is, he is. Take him back home to mom.
Back home to mom.
That protester, that protester right there is a real American patriot.
All of these freaks in the crowd who get angry at people standing up to this wannabe dictator, wannabe fascist,
um, are just. It's so backwards.
They're so anti-American.
I mean, this guy has violated the law, the Constitution, and he does it over and over again.
He brags about doing it.
And these people in the crowd get upset when somebody calls that out.
They get upset when somebody calls him out for not releasing the Epstein files.
It's so backward inside of these Trump rallies.
But nonetheless, you can see how annoyed he gets and how annoyed his crowd gets.
But that is how the American people feel.
Poll after poll shows Donald Trump and his approval rating sitting at around 30%.
Low 30s, even some polls having him in the high 20s.
Which. Is really disaster land if you're going into the midterms.
And, uh, these. All these freaks in here, these robots, as I like to call them,
because they clap for anything that Donald Trump says,
they are the minority of the country.
The majority don't like Donald Trump and don't like Republican leadership right now.
And speaking of not liking Republican leadership, this could be a reason.
Because Donald Trump at his rallies recently has been just incoherent, rambling nonstop.
There is no policy coming out of him.
But also, he's been making really weird comments like this.
So he's speaking in Kentucky.
And he decided to speak about the Republican senator running for re-election in Ohio.
And instead of talking about policy ideas he has, he decided to talk about his ass.
That's not. You didn't mishear me.
I didn't misspeak.
A-S-S.
He spoke about his behind, his hands, his feet, his jawline.
This is a very weird clip from Trump's rally today.
Just check it out.
Certain people.
Look at the crowds we have.
And he came up and he was talking very nicely.
And I stood right over here.
And I examined his ass.
I never did that.
No, I never did that with a man before.
I examined his ass.
And then I looked at his shoulders.
I looked at his feet.
I looked at his hand.
I looked at his jawline.
Studying.
He's got a jawline.
This is. You would be very unfortunate if you picked a fight with him at a bar someday.
Wow.
You know, once again.
I think my robot point remains true.
Because all these people just laughed at that.
What is. What's funny?
I'm just missing the joke, I guess.
What is funny about the President of the United States saying that he was examining another man's ass?
I just. I don't get the joke.
Nonetheless, this is something he continues to do.
He continues to talk about other men and looking at them, examining their bodies,
or saying that they're studs and they're attractive.
I don't know what's going on with Trump recently.
I keep saying in these videos, like, maybe he's discovering something about himself later.
And if he is, you know, we in the Democratic Party say love is love.
That's no problem.
You can do that.
But saying this in front of a crowd and talking about how you were looking at a man's rear end or behind,
I just don't think is appropriate at a campaign rally.
And then on that same point, he says that ever since he started making this point about John Husted,
the Republican whose ass he was examining, he's picked up nine or ten points in the polls.
Wow.
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Give me that seat.
No, I'm not going to give you the seat.
And I then patted him on the shoulder and it was like a piece of steel.
I sort of, I'm still recovering my hand.
I was like, and I explained it to the crowd.
I said, this is unbelievable.
And, you know, he's picked up like nine or ten points since I talked about that.
And he's got a really good chance of beating. So just to be clear, Donald Trump's closing campaign message for not only Kentucky, I guess,
but more specifically. Ohio, is that the candidate he's endorsed, you should vote for him because according
to Donald Trump, he is a rockin' bod.
I just don't think that's the most convincing thing.
You know, when people are thinking about gas prices, when they're thinking about grocery
prices, the fact that the United States is in another war somewhere in the world that
I imagine many of these Trump supporters could not point to on a map.
I think that's what a lot of people are thinking about, not whether their representatives have
a rocking bod or not, and whether the president of the United States is examining their behind.
But, you know,
maybe I'm just a crazy liberal.
I don't know.
And also, for the record, it's absurd on face value what he's saying.
But just to point out, John Husted has not gained nine or ten points since Donald Trump
started talking about his body.
He still remains down in the polls.
According to some new polling in Ohio, local polling, Sherrod Brown, the former senator
from the state, now running for the seat that John Husted has, is sitting at 49%.
Husted is sitting at 43%.
So maybe like the MAGA approval rating of John Husted.
Husted has gone up since Donald Trump started talking about his body, but certainly not
for normal people.
This is not the first time he's done this, I want to point out, on October 12th.
So around, you know, five days ago, before this rally, he, you know, for the first time
ever, debuted this point.
And he has, I guess, landed on it.
He thinks this is effective.
He's going to continue to say it, which means we are going to get continually weird clips.
So here's another one I wanted to show you.
He's moved off of John Husted and started talking about his opponent, Sherrod Brown.
And he forgot his name.
Didn't even remember his name.
A failed senator, I guess, Sherrod Brown.
A very bad, very bad, they say a bad, he's been in for years and they threw him out.
We had Bernie.
Just doesn't even remember his name.
Doesn't even remember his name.
He's campaigning against somebody that he doesn't know anything about.
You know, it's his speech writers, you know.
Speech writers are directing whatever Donald Trump says.
He has no thoughts anymore.
He just says whatever the teleprompter says.
And then when he goes off the teleprompter and starts speaking for himself, well, then
we get clips like this, where he starts talking about a senator's body.
Here's another one.
A very weird, you know, just in this line of like relationships or talking about attractive
people or men or women or whatever.
Another weird clip in this saga where Donald Trump says all of these people have gotten
jobs in the private sector and now their wives like them so much more, they get more turned
on by the fact they almost become violent in their love.
What is he talking about?
Many of these people have gone out.
They've gotten private sector jobs, a job they like much more.
Their wife likes them much more or their husband.
They like them much more.
They get much more turned on by the fact that the husband's got a better job than he used
to.
They became they become almost violent in their love for their husband.
And there's a kid right there.
There's a kid right there as Donald Trump is speaking about husbands or wives getting
more turned on by somebody having a job in the private sector.
Remember when the Republicans were like, oh, the Democrats are trying to do sex ed in front
of like five-year-old children or four-year-old children.
They're trying to infiltrate our schools.
You know, that lasted for like a year and then they kind of moved away from that.
They still sometimes bring it up.
But this is Donald Trump talking about relations in a marriage in front of children.
So what where did that go?
Where did that?
You know, we got to keep it away from the kids.
You don't want to be talking about in front of the kids.
Where did that go?
I guess it just disappeared.
But, you know, just making stuff up really.
I mean, I would be shocked.
I'd be shocked if there's a couple out there a marriage where the man or the woman is now
more interested in their marriage because instead of working for the federal government,
they now work in the private sector.
And if they're I mean, look, plenty of relationships out there that I don't quite understand.
But I would just be shocked if that is the reality.
He then moves on.
want to talk about his tariffs, and he
still talking about the Mexico wall. He's saying that Mexico actually did pay for the wall because
I charged them tariffs. Now, Donald Trump has been claiming for years, even in his first term,
that Mexico paid for the wall. He gave a different explanation then, but I guess that one fell
flat and so he's come up with a new explanation for how they paid. Just watch. I built 2,000 miles.
I built 2,000 miles of wall I built 2,000 miles remember when I first said we will build a wall
and by the way by the way Mexico did pay for that wall just so you understand because
I charge them tariffs and I charge them costs like they have never paid ever in history and
Mexico has paid for that wall many many times over believe me I can't believe it is the year
2026 and he's still doing the same bit he you know he was talking about this in 2016 2017 during his
first term he said he got Mexico to pay for the wall he didn't build 2,000 miles they didn't pay
for it he's still talking about it now I would like to point out there's actually a proposed
fact check on that tweet that included that video that says U.S. importers not Mexico pay
tariffs on goods from Mexico so in actuality we paid for any wall that he built now he only built
I think the number is around 50 miles of new wall any other parts of the wall he built was reinforcing
existing wall because yes contrary to what MAGA believes it's not just land there is a wall there
is a barrier that already exists at the Mexico America United States border but it was us that
paid for it so all these people in the crowd that are cheering once again they are robots they are
cheering for their taxes getting used to pay for the wall when they actually believe their you know
Mexico paid for it he's lying to them and they're clapping isn't it just it bothers me so much when I
see that it bothers me so much then Donald Trump goes on to say that actually renaming the Gulf of
Mexico to the Gulf of America is also a form of pavement for his border wall so I guess Mexico
paid in like 1,500 different ways for this wall that he didn't build I mean not only did they pay
I even called the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America okay that's a that's a form of payment
okay um you know there's so much that bothers me right now about the United States under Donald
Trump's leadership I mean the list is extensive you could write a bible-sized book about the
problems with the United States under Donald Trump but one of the ones that bothers me the
most is not only the robots in the crowd but also the stupidity of the United States under Donald Trump
is stupidity everything is so dumb everything is so dumb we're renaming the Gulf of Mexico Google
Maps is changing it Donald Trump is claiming that's a form of payment for a wall that never got built
it's everything is so dumb and the fact that there are people out there and this is not the majority
of the country but the fact that there are people out there who are like yeah this rocks everything
is great I love it is so mind-blowing to me I just I can't get over it I don't think I'll ever be able
to fathom it I really don't I still to this day every day I wake up I'm like I can't believe this
guy is president he's been president you know once before and this is almost two years into his term
um it's just so embarrassing and then on the topic of Google Maps he goes on to say you know
I called Google Maps they wouldn't have taken my call my first term but now they kiss my ass
this is a much more powerful term I can do stuff that's unbelievable
I don't think I could do it
so I put it in I called Google Google Maps see Google wouldn't have taken my call in the first
now they kiss my ass
I hope all the tech CEOs out there who have bent the knee to Donald Trump are happy
because this is what he thinks of you so you you give to his inaugural fund you give to his
campaign you give to his ballroom you hang out with him and and JD Vance and Marco Rubio you're
doing all this stuff and then this is what he says about you that you kiss his ass that you
bend the knee to him isn't it humiliating are they not you know taken aback sometimes by the
situation that they put themselves in I would be embarrassed if I were any of these guys who
bent the knee to Donald Trump and I'm changing the names of bodies of water to satisfy him and
donating money to him you know but that's what they've done that's what they continue to do
then Donald Trump decides to go on his stupid rants as he does so often he continues to bring
up the dumb talking point like he is really fascinated with the word
dumb but dumb and most people don't know it has a b I don't even need to say that because
the media always changes that one around so I won't say it too much but most people don't
know dumb most people think dumb is filled wow uh most people don't know that the word
dumb has a b in it now I've pointed this out before I feel the need to say it again
when Donald Trump says most people or they say or everybody says
that is code in Donald Trump's language for I say it I'm just learning this right now so when
he says most people don't know that the word dumb has a b he's talking about himself like he
recently discovered this and he's trying to make himself feel better and validated in his
intelligence intelligence reality reality of stupidity but he's trying to make himself feel
validated by assuming that everybody else around him doesn't know that the word dumb has a b in it
now everybody knows that you kind of learn that when you're learning the English language as a
or you know as you've grown up um and he's just the odd one out he's just that dumb it's really
you know this this clip is a perfect encapsulation of the uh stupidity in the oval office right now
but anyway I just wanted to show you some clips from the campaign rally looking at Donald Trump's
closing message with just three weeks away from the midterms and I am not impressed there's really
not a part of me that is worried by what he's saying at these rallies to believe that people
and I think President Obama just said this um this doesn't matter in the long term like the polls can
be great the polls are great Donald Trump can be as stupid as we'd want him to be there are still
MAGA people that are going to get out there and vote and so we have to too we have to get out there
and vote we have to early vote or vote on the day or vote by mail whatever you got to do make your
voice heard and be part of it because a lot of these races in competitive districts we are winning
but they're within the margin of error so you know only a thousand people not voting could be the
difference between controlling the senate or controlling the house and not so please make
sure to do that but I will leave the video there thank you so much for watching please make sure
to subscribe down below drop a like on the video comment let me know what you think about this
story and everything we just talked about have an amazing rest of your day and we will talk soon
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Donald Trump is actively campaigning in Republican-leaning states like Kentucky, signaling growing uncertainty in Republican electoral prospects.
Trump has been heckled at every rally, including a recent protest over his comments about another candidate’s body, highlighting public disapproval.
His rallies feature increasingly incoherent, off-topic, and inappropriate content, such as discussing political opponents’ physical appearance and marital dynamics.
Trump falsely claims Mexico paid for the U.S.-Mexico border wall and suggests renaming the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America" is a form of payment—claims contradicted by facts and evidence.
Polls show Trump’s approval rating in the low 30s, with no credible policy messaging, indicating weak public support ahead of midterms.
Trump appears to rely on speechwriters, with little original thought, and frequently forgets opponents’ names or makes absurd, factually wrong statements.
His comments about private sector jobs increasing marital passion are presented as fact, despite being unrealistic and inappropriate for public discourse.
A significant portion of his base remains loyal despite the content, suggesting a deeply entrenched but ideologically disconnected political movement.
Summary:
Donald Trump’s recent campaign rallies reveal a troubling decline in political coherence and public credibility. Despite being in Republican-leaning states, he faces growing disapproval, with polls showing his approval rating in the low 30s. His speeches are marked by incoherence, absurdity, and inappropriate content—such as discussing opponents’ bodies, making false claims about Mexico funding the border wall, and suggesting renaming the Gulf of Mexico as payment.
These remarks are factually inaccurate and widely perceived as out of touch, especially when delivered to children or in public discourse. Trump’s lack of policy ideas, frequent memory lapses, and reliance on speechwriters further signal a loss of leadership credibility. While a dedicated base remains loyal, the majority of Americans appear disillusioned, with polling and public reaction indicating a weakening Republican foundation ahead of the midterms.
The content of these rallies reflects not only poor governance but a disconnect between Trump’s messaging and real public concerns like inflation, war, and economic stability. Despite this, the political momentum among MAGA supporters remains, emphasizing the need for voter engagement in close, competitive races.
FAQs
He is campaigning in Republican states to shore up support in areas where he is falling behind, indicating uncertainty in key districts and an effort to boost voter confidence.
Yes, he has been interrupted by protesters at every rally, including today in Kentucky, which reflects strong opposition to his rhetoric and policies.
He reportedly examined the body of a Republican candidate, John Husted, and called it a 'rockin' bod,' which drew criticism for being inappropriate and out of touch.
Trump claimed that discussing the candidate’s body boosted the Republican candidate’s poll numbers by nine or ten points, but actual polling shows no significant improvement.
It is seen as inappropriate and out of alignment with campaign standards, especially when spoken to children or in public forums, raising questions about his judgment and relevance.
This claim is factually incorrect; U.S. importers, not Mexico, pay tariffs, and the wall was only about 50 miles long, with most being reinforced, not built by Trump.
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