Skip to main content

A Donald Trump Rally in Georgia Goes Dark and The candidates Like it

On a darkened stage, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump gives the thumbs up after his speech at Georgia World Congress Center on Sunday. Hyosub Shin, hshin@ajc.com
On a darkened stage, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump gives the thumbs up after his speech at Georgia World Congress Center on Sunday. Hyosub Shin, hshin@ajc.com
History books are replete with cults of personality. Mao Zedong, Eva Peron, Charles DeGaulle, even Vladimir Putin. In Georgia, Gene Talmadge had one going back in the day.
But modern Georgians have had no chance to glimpse one – until Sunday, when Donald Trump came to Atlanta and the Georgia World Congress Center, one day after his victory in the South Carolina presidential primary.
All revolves around the leader. You might have thought that Sunday’s rally of Trump supporters was a public event. Not so. All in the very large room were invited guests, who could be just as easily disinvited. As was made clear when a disembodied announcer explained how to deal with demonstrators.
“This is a private event paid for by Mr. Trump. We have provided a safe protest area outside the venue for all protests. If a protester is demonstrating in the area around you, please do not touch or harm the protester.”
If non-believers were encountered, members of the standing crowd (there are only a few seats) were advised to “Please hold a rally sign over your head and start shouting ‘Trump, Trump, Trump!” until law enforcement arrives.
Writing about a Donald Trump speech is like trying to describe the whiplash that comes with a roller coaster ride. Ninety-degree turns in the middle of a dependent clause, trains of thoughts that dart into tunnels and never return. One can only hope to grab the tail of one thought, and hang on. One crowd-pleaser was a long paean to winning:
‘Our country does not win any more. We don’t win against ISIS. We don’t win with health care….We don’t win at the border with Mexico. We don’t win anywhere. But we’re gonna win. Oh, are we gonna win. You’ll get so tired of winning, you’re gonna get so tired, you’re going to say, ‘Please, please, Mr. President, we can’t stand it anymore. We don’t want to keep winning. We can’t stand it.’ And I’m going to say, ‘I don’t care, we’re going to keep winning, we’re going to make America great again.’”
But the point of cults of personality is to empower followers, by permitting them to imagine that their success can be channeled and accomplished through a single human being other than themselves. A beautiful example jumped up during one of many, many Trump tirades against illegal immigration. In the middle of a sentence, the bright lights focused on the podium blinked off. A spokewoman for the GWCC blamed protesters.
“They didn’t pay the electric bill,” Trump quickly quipped. The glaring head beams aren’t there for the candidate. They are there for the TV cameras, and for the many smart phone videos in so many hands. But again, it was the candidate who counted here.
“Oh, I like that much better,” Trump decided. “Oh, that’s so much better. Those lights were brutal. They come from the dishonest press. Don’t turn the lights on. Plus, we save on electricity, right? And because the lights didn’t work, I won’t pay the rent. So we get better lighting, and we don’t pay the rent, right?”
GWCC officialdom had begun hustling as soon as the lights blinked off. And quickly the lights came on.
“No! Get those lights off. Off! They’re too bright. Turn ‘em off!” Trump shouted. And then he brought the crowd in. “Let’s go, ready? Turn off the lights! Turn off the lights! Turn off the lights!”
The crowd joined in. And the fellow at the light board surrendered. He flicked the lights off. Trump and the crowd had joined together and accomplished something.
“That’s the way we have to negotiate for our country,” the candidate said.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

ONE LITTLE GIRL: an interesting story of a shoe Addict

 I find Imelda Marcos story very interesting. Thought of sharing. Enjoy ONE LITTLE GIRL  Once upon a time there was a little girl. She was a beautiful little girl, everyone agreed. She had dark hair, pale skin and almond eyes. And she sang like an angel. Everyone agreed on that too. Until she was 10 our little girl lived in the big city. It was a sprawling, bustling, filthy place. She lived in a hovel. Well, it wasn’t so much a hovel as a rundown garage. And, when the wind blew at night, the doors and shutters creaked and banged and she was very afraid. And every year when the fierce monsoon rains wreaked their vengeance on the earth the floor of the garage flooded and the little girl’s bare feet were cold and wet. One night in a fearsome storm our little girls’ mummy died – “of pneumonia”, they said, but our little girl didn’t understand. And so she and her widowed father and her five brothers and sisters left the garage in the big city and went to live on a tropical ...

HOW TO GET 100 SUBSCRIBERS ON YOUTUBE

Hi Lovelies, My video on how to get 100 SUBSCRIBERS on YouTube is out and ready. In the video, I showed every process I did (WITH SCREEN RECORDING TUTORIALS) to gain subscribers. I talked about the app I used. The exact pages  I went to attract subscribers etc. Watch here 👇  Road to 100 SUBSCRIBERS I wish you MASSIVE GROWTH IN YOUR CHANNEL. Cheers 🥂

NBTE Fires 13 Lecturers, Demotes 16 Others at Auchi Polytechnic over Sex-for-Marks Scandals

The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) on Thursday announced the dismissal of five lecturers and the termination of appointments of eight others in Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi. The dismissal and termination of appointments are in connection with sexual-related offences. The Executive Secretary of the board, Dr Masa’udu Kazaure, who made this known at a news conference in Kaduna, said 16 other lecturers were demoted, while four others were warned. He also said two others were advised, another two cautioned, while one lecturer would be mentored. He said the development was the outcome of an investigation following a publication by The Punch newspaper of April 9, 2016 with the title: `School Where Prostitutes Assist Male Students to Get Marks’. He said: “The summery of the publication indicated that students hire prostitutes or beg their girl friends to sleep with lecturers on their behalf in order to earn higher grades in their courses. “The lecturer chooses a hotel ...