Hochul says Trump's Madison Square Garden rally is a 'white flag of surrender'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

10/27/24 2:49 PM ET


New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said she thinks the Madison Square Garden rally former President Trump is hosting Sunday is a “white flag of surrender.”

“I think he’s waving the white flag of surrender,” Hochul said Sunday on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.” “He’s coming back to a city that he knows well. He’s comfortable here. Maybe he’d like to sleep in his own bed.”

Hochul contrasted Trump’s rally with Vice President Harris’s itinerary. She’s campaigning in the critical battleground state of Pennsylvania. Trump will be going to his “known, familiar” environment, but it won’t serve him on the campaign trail, Hochul argued.

“He’s giving up, because why else would you come to New York City? You are not going to find undecided voters walking the streets of Manhattan today.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4955966-hochul-trump-madison-square-garden-rally-white-flag-of-surrender/

[Ocelot II]

1. More like a white hood of surrender.

[pat_k]

3. Kicked off by a deeply unfunny racist warmup act

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219616217

[peppertree]

12. Hear, hear - Gov. Hochul's was a very generous interpretation

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Who seriously doubts that Jabba-the-Trump was deliberately trying to recreate the 1939 Nazi Bund rally?

Least of all - a New Yorker who should know better.

[Jack Valentino]

18. More like a white hood of defiance, IMHO....

or perhaps an orange hood--- bah.

If he wants to waste time in New York, I salute him! jajajajajaja

[spooky3]

32. Chef's kiss! Nt

[Mopar151]

2. The last Red Meat Supper! nt

[Blue Owl]

4. Even worse than the historic Nazi rally

[Evolve Dammit]

5. I think she may be underestimating the support. At least I sincerely hope so. nt

[Scrivener7]

7. New York doesn't like the vile thing. We know him too well.

[Drum]

8. Right on.

We do.

[Jrsygrl96]

17. Absolutely!

Too many New Yorkers are aware of his slumlord days and using union workers and then not paying the contractors. The hatred goes back decades!!!!!

[Evolve Dammit]

6. This isn't just MSG. It is being broadcast to all 50 states on MSM

[Scrivener7]

9. That's good for us. For a change.

[Evolve Dammit]

10. not sure about that. There are millions that eat this Nazi shit up.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

16. I'd like to

Feed Trump and his Nazis shit.

[Jit423]

22. I agree with you.

What is repeated often gets rewarded. This Maga cult is a self-flagellating, self-aggrandizing, ignorant group of dangerous bigots who despise women and people of color and anyone who would dare to embrace our humanity. They are responsible for the sense of dread and depression that fills the atmosphere around us all.

[3825-87867]

11. He's comfortable here. Maybe he'd like to sleep in his own bed!

He's comfortable here. Maybe he'd like to sleep in his own bed!

Does she mean beside a rolled up magazine and copy of Hitler's Speeshes with Mein Kampf tucked between his...?
Is she audtioning for a job at the Times or Post?
Or maybe as a contributor to Fox?

[DENVERPOPS]

13. The only bed he deserves

is one in Colorado SuperMax. Where we would never hear from him ever again because they are not allowed any form of outside communications what so ever.....................No internet, no cell phone, no tweeting or texting, no visitors, no contact with other prisoners, ........ no nothing.........Absolutely no way for his Trumphumpers to contact him, and no way for him to contact his Trumphumpers......

[3auld6phart]

25. Damn straight

Florence Super Max. I’ve posted this way back . They would save coin on. secret Service Guards.. A big win or Leavenworth military prison . vote BLUE all the way.

[slightlv]

35. Oh, please...

don't wish him here to Leavenworth! There'd be a constant string of protestors and rabble rousers all up and down Metropolitan Avenue, and I only live a few blocks from there!

[3auld6phart]

40. Sorry

:d Sorry, . .. A least Florence is kind of isolated. Take care…

[Zambero]

21. And the gold crapper

"There's just no place like home!"

[Layzeebeaver]

39. that's about right

he'll never go to prison. maybe house arrest.

only poor people go to actual prison.

[elleng]

14. ' You are not going to find undecided voters walking the streets of Manhattan today."'

[Aussie105]

15. Fascism on full display.

Voices of HATE from members of an imploding cult.
Unbridled, desperate.
Voices of frustrated old white men who promised themselves unachievable levels of power and influence.

It will only serve to spread the disgust NY feels towards Trump and his followers to the rest of the country.

[samnsara]

19. but just look at the coverage..across all states..hes just wanting to be seen

[Ligyron]

28. They're going to wish no one had ever seen this.

Even the organizers I would bet are cringing at the racist jokes and nutball christian garbage. Even the nazi crowd had a hard time laughing at some of it.

This won't play well in Preoria.

[multigraincracker]

20. The only politician to lose his own hometown

and home state twice. They know who he is.

[Skittles]

23. * lose

(loose is like, for example, these pants are too big, they are loose around my waist)

and damn straight, he DID lose his home state because those folk were already on to him and his corrupt ways, yes INDEED

[multigraincracker]

24. Thanks. Fixed.

[Deuxcents]

26. I was surprised to see Malania with him..she didn't have to travel far

[RockRaven]

27. I will grant her this: she knows how to get under his skin. Those comments will

cause some rage-posting, if or when he hears about them.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

29. Time wasted there is fine.

Beats him doing it where it might help

[HereForTheParty]

30. No good reason to go into solid blue New York

I think he's feeling it's out of reach.

[Roxi]

31. Maybe, maybe not

I read somewhere that he’s hoping to incite violence (again) by riling up his most ardent supporters there tonight.

They’re going to leave that rally absolutely convinced that he’s going to win, and when he doesn’t, they’re going to be out for blood.

The rest of the world, meanwhile, is watching in horror at that disgusting display of hatred.

[sheshe2]

33. He went home to grab his binkie and blankie.

His brand (hate and fear) isn’t selling anymore.He knows he has lost and is going down in flames. 🔥

[ailsagirl]

34. We should be so lucky

Somehow, i don't think that our party will get off that easy. It's as if we're sitting on a powder keg-- Hope I'm wrong.

[relayerbob]

36. Definitely white

[Metaphorical]

37. The problem is that most people were not alive (or were very young) when MSG had its Nazi Rally

Part of the reason that he can do what he does is that most people don't really know what the Nazis were. World War II was eighty years ago (hell, Vietnam was sixty). For too many people alive today, a Nazi is just a particularly repellent form of cosplay.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

38. Crowd Numbers?

I have not seen any reports on the crowd size, but I wonder if his people booked him there with the thought of playing to a packed house, and one that might have emotional value to Trump.

The thing about New York is that it has so many people that even if only a tiny fraction care enough about Trump to come to the event it might still be enough to fill the arena.

That and it is easy for the media to get there and cover it. As others have pointed out, he was not just playing to the Manhattan crowd, but the whole country via the media. More coverage than if he had made the same speech in Harrisburg or Erie. Which, knowing him, he probably has.

I would love if this was his last hurrah. It would make me very happy. But I somehow doubt that will be the case.

Get out the vote!

[Novara]

41. More like the Nazi flag of hate.

It's the most blatant hate rally he's held, and that is saying something.