Former president Donald Trump called Melania ‘Mercedes’ as he praised his wife during a speech in Washington DC. The crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gave the former First Lady a standing ovation as Mr Trump described how “people love her”. “Oh look at that Mercedes, that’s pretty good” he said as the audience stood and applauded. The GOP presidential hopeful was making the keynote speech on 24 February on the same day as voters head to the polls in the South Carolina primary.
    • omgarm@feddit.nl
      21·
      9 months ago

      I am continually amazed by the USA. How does he get so much support? Why are all your candidates walking corpses? How did it get to this point?

      • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        532·
        9 months ago

        Look around.

        How did Modi get so much support?

        How did Johnson get so much support?

        How did Le Pen get so much support?

        How did Meloni get so much support?

        How did Erdogan get so much support?

        How did Orban get so much support?

        How did Netanyahu get so much support?

        How did Wilders get so much support?

        Awful leaders with popular support are by no means unique to the USA.

      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        172·
        9 months ago

        Foreign-funded propaganda masquerading as legitimate news and foreign-funded legislators have a LOT to do with this, as well as manipulated social media.

        If it were still illegal for a media outlet to call itself news without holding itself to journalistic standards, we would not be having nearly the problems in the US we are having today. “Divided we fall,” and so it is.

        And if you look around, that was also the case with Brexit in 2016, and with the rise of other far-right demagogues around the world since then.

        • Rickety Thudds@lemmy.caEnglish
          71·
          9 months ago

          One of the real reasons I want to see regime change in Russia. They’re too good at fucking with us.

    • hOrni@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      There is no word yet. In a couple of decades we will be calling obvious stupid liars a “trump.”