No more Mr Nice Guy
by digby
He’s just losing it. He started off his rally yesterday morning pissed off at the fire marshal for refusing to let too many people into the room because these people “don’t know what the hell they’re doing” — and they might be Hillary people. The fire marshal.
Then there was this when the lock her up chant started:
“I’ve been saying let’s just beat her on November 8th. But you know what, I’m starting to agree with you,” Trump said.
The comments, which came in his first public appearance since Clinton ripped him in her speech at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night, marked an about-face for Trump, who in the last week has resisted joining in on his supporters’ chants and instead urged them to channel their anger at the ballot box.
“You know it’s interesting. Every time I mention her, everyone screams ‘lock her up, lock her up.’ They keep screaming. And you know what I do? I’ve been nice,” Trump explained to his supporters in this evangelical bastion of Colorado Springs. “But after watching that performance last night — such lies — I don’t have to be so nice anymore. I’m taking the gloves off.
Needless to say he’s lying. His Nuremburg rally speech at the RNC was the first time he ever said “lets beat her in November.” He’s been saying for months that she should be in jail:
After months of insisting that Clinton was “guilty as hell,” Trump argued in June that Clinton should “go to jail” over her email use, which Trump and Republicans allege may have compromised national security.
Meaningless, I know, to point such things out anymore. It’s actually more useful to point out the rare times when he isn’t lying or bragging or otherwise being a cretin.
Yes, he also said he wanted to hit someone (Bloomberg) for saying mean things about him and he says he takes these insults personally.
But nothing, nothing comes close to this batshit crazy comment:
I was curious to see whether she’d do a class act and not mention my name,” the Republican nominee said at a rally with supporters in Colorado. “Or mention it with respect, like, say, ‘I’d like to congratulate my Republican opponent for having done something that nobody has ever done in the history of politics in this nation.’”
“See, I thought she might do something like that. I thought she’d give me a big fat beautiful congratulations. If she did that, would that have been cool? Would that have been great?,”
Yes, he actually said that. And it wasn’t a joke. That’s the weirdest projection I have ever seen. Twisted, bizarre, freakish. He think he’s the one who has “done something that nobody has ever done in the history of politics in this nation.” And he’s angry that Clinton didn’t congratulate him for it.
The mind boggles.
By the way, here’s what John McCain did when Obama won his nomination in 2008:
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