Having vanquished his Republican foes, presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump must turn his attention to the general election. But reading a dull teleprompter'd speech in front of a wall of crushed aluminum cans seems to have left him with a very bad taste in his mouth, because by the time he hit Maine, yesterday, he was back to the seething ball of hair and bitterness that got him where he is today.
The result: Yet another long monologue about the all Republican bastards who have wronged him. Buckle in, all you poor saps who showed up to a Donald Trump rally, because we're locking the doors and you're not allowed to leave until Donald Trump lodges his complaints against every last person, group or deciduous tree that isn't showing him the proper deference as King Of All Republicans.
I'm not going to knock them because it's useless to knock them. These people signed the pledge. They all wanted me to sign the pledge. I signed the pledge and they did, too. They don't honor the pledge. Amazing what can happen when you lose. No, I have people in all fairness, whether they like me or not. And it was a rough campaign, and I wasn't nice. But they weren't nice either. Jeb spent $15 million, $18 million on negative ads. Am I supposed to say I like him? But they signed a pledge. There were -- there were people that honored it that would have loved not to honor it. We got great backing. Ben Carson. We have a great relationship. And Chris Christie. Rick Santorum just signed on. We have great people. We have great people. We have amazing people and endorsements.
Great people: People who bring Donald Trump his McDonalds orders. Bad people: Everyone else. Oh, but he's Just. Getting. Started.
But when you sign a pledge, this isn't, am I changing my mind? This is like legally binding, you want to know the truth. I don't care. I don't think it matters. I don't think I'll get two more votes. But you sign a pledge and you're supposed to honor the pledge. I have guys out there, and they are really sore losers. It was a rough campaign. They say it was the roughest campaign ever. Might be superseded by this, but we'll see. They say it was the roughest campaign ever in the history of Republican politics and maybe in politics. I've heard a lot of the so-called walking heads they call them walking heads or talking heads. Usually they're walking heads to me because there's nothing up there with most of these guys. And it was rough. But what you do is you go to sleep for a couple of days and wake up and say, I honor the pledge. I would have honored it. There are people I don't like and people I love on that stage. There's people I don't particularly like or respect. I wouldn't have gone crazy, let's yell it from the loudest building, but I would have honored the pledge. But we have people that have not honored the pledge. And that's a terrible thing. I don't care who you are, what your position. [...]
It really does just keep going, doesn’t it? The man does not have an off switch, we’ll grant him that.
You can say what you want. They all signed so that I'd sign because I was the one that was negotiating a little bit. I'll always negotiate for you people. I love to negotiate. Just remember this. They signed a pledge saying they will abide, saying they will back the candidate of the party. And now they sit back and the pledge is out there and the press doesn't even go after him on that. They broke their word, in my opinion. They should never be allowed to run for public office again because what they did is disgraceful.
You'd think he'd be wrapping this up by now. You'd be wrong.
So I said when I saw the U.S. Chamber of commerce again controlled totally by various groups of people that don't care about you whatsoever, I said why would they -- I even tweeted @realDonaldTrump, but I tweeted, I said why would the chamber, and I have nothing against the chamber. Don't know them too well. Why would they complain when all I'm saying is this. [...]
As far as anyone knows, this Maine rally is still going on and Donald Trump is still listing grievances, one after the other. Send food, if you can: His audience is looking a bit gaunt.