Trump fails to attract courthouse protest despite all-caps pleas for support - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC

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Rachel Maddow looks at the small and steadily dwindling crowds showing up at Donald Trump's various legal appointments to show their support and object to Trump being subjected to legal accountability. Despite Trump's best efforts at all-caps rallying cries on social media, supporters outside his New York criminal trial have been few and far between. - Aired on 04/29/2024.

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1. Trump: Please don't see me as . . .

a loser and complainer, please don't think I overpromised when in the White House and underdelivered, please don't turn your back on me!
I'm bigly smart and bigly trustworthy, and bigly capable of doing bigly things!
Everybody says so, trust me on that!

And the crowd chants in unison . . . Who Dat Old Sad Man in court? We is moved on!

I'm thinking:
Just another failed Messiah - one in a long list of failed messiahs for those looking for someone to put sense and value into their lives.
(That is actually your job, don't look for someone else to do that for you.)

GOP: I hope you have a plan B, because plan A, putting TSF back into the White House isn't looking good for you.

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2. I sure hope that the deluded have learned a lesson from January 6th!

Especially since thousands have been tried, convicted, sentenced and imprisoned while their "leader" who called them there still walks free - despite his current trial and being out on bail - over three years later.

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3. In New York, Trump looks for mass protests that still don't exist

Donald Trump wanted a "circus" to accompany his trial, but the mass protests he envisioned failed to materialize — again. It's worth appreciating why.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/new-york-trump-looks-mass-protests-still-dont-exist-rcna148922

The New York Times reported that Trump was “evidently not happy” when few followed his directive, ignoring the fact that “he wanted a circus to accompany his trial.”

The scene that confronted him as he approached the dingy courthouse at 100 Centre Street was underwhelming. Across the street, at Collect Pond Park, the designated site for protesters during the trial, only a handful of Trump supporters had gathered, and the number would not grow much throughout the morning. ... [T]he streets around the courthouse on Monday were chaos-free — well-patrolled and relatively quiet.

The article added that there were some Trump supporters gathered in the park across from the courthouse, but they were “outnumbered by Trump detractors.”

To the chagrin of the former president, this keeps happening......

Yesterday, the turnout was, once again, largely a joke. So much for “PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!”

As for why, exactly, these demonstrations have failed to materialize, there are plenty of competing explanations, starting with the fact that the Justice Department’s extensive prosecutions of Jan. 6 rioters have not gone unnoticed among the former president’s most ardent backers.

But I’m also reminded of an analysis my MSNBC colleague Zeeshan Aleem wrote last year.

“It may have to do with post-Jan. 6 wariness of getting in trouble if a pro-Trump protest spirals out of control,” Aleem wrote. “Perhaps conspiracy theories about the government laying traps for peaceful protesters scared them out of showing up. Maybe Trump finally has exhausted his base with his constant hysteria. ... Whatever the reasons may be, Trump is looking weak.”