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careful to say they ve never done that officially, they ve never actually said it was because of that. but certainly, he talks a lot about how he doesn t like the the washington times washington post, doesn t like amazon, when he says it in speeches people in the government listen and take action. so you ve seen a lot of the companies that he names in speeches later on, their cases brought against them in the ftc, the federal trade commission, or other areas. so it is something that you clearly, there s a link between the politics and what he s saying even if it s a nonofficial, if it s a not political event, it s a white house event. it is something that he doesn t really have any distinctions here. what donald trump says is what donald trump says, and it doesn t matter what the event is. that s clear on twitter, and it s also clear in real life. today the president is tweeting about the pavillioned protests that are happening now in portland involving white supremacists and coun
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anyone on the trump staff. but we do know how much the president cares about crowd size. and he often talks about people standing in long lines for his events. was this all to curry good favor with the president? i don t think we know for sure, but i think you can make an assumption that when people are putting together these events for the president, whether they re explicitly political events or whether they re official white house events, there is enormous pressure on anyone putting an event like that together with this president to generate a crowd that, you know, that won t look like the place is half filled. you know, i think what this underscores is what we are going to see for the next, you know, 12, 16 months, 18 months before the next election, which is an increasi increasing likelihood that whether it s a rally organized by the campaign or an appearance by the president organized by the white house, they re all going to be political.
this president doesn t stick to the script. he doesn t stick to the teleprompter. as we saw, you know, at that event and at so many other events recently, he veers off of whatever the official topic and subject is to talk about everything on on in front of him, much. which is political. in fact, this is something he had to say at the event, let s listen. i m going to speak to the union leaders and say we have to support trump. and if they don t vote them the hell out of office because they re not doing their job. it s true. vote them out of office. jay, there is a real fear of how this president retaliates. absolutely. you ve seen him retaliate on on a lot of levels. whether it s going after amazon because they own the washington post, to some degree, they ve never done i should be