Trump's 'American Carnage 2.0' tour continues, tonight in Fayetteville North Carolina.

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Friday, Oct. 04, 2024 Friday, Oct. 04, 2024 at 8:15:13pm PDT

Donald keeps hoping for that 1929-style Depression

Fort Liberty is not MAGA enough.

after vowing to restore Confederate names to military bases, Trump lies about the government giving money to migrants and hence not having funds for disaster relief pic.twitter.com/9sV3aczrEb
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 4, 2024

The enslaving Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg suddenly has become a Republican primary rallying cry, after Fort Bragg in North Carolina was renamed to Fort Liberty earlier this month.

“We will end the political correctness in the hallways of the Pentagon, and North Carolina will once again be home to Fort Bragg,” former vice president Mike Pence told a state GOP convention. “It’s an iconic name and iconic base, and we’re not gonna let political correctness run amok in North Carolina,” vowed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Fort Bragg does have a venerable military history, of course. But its eponym, Gen. Bragg, not so much.

Bragg was a “merciless tyrant” who had an “uncanny ability to turn minor wins and losses into strategic defeat,” wrote Sam Watkins, who served under the man historians call the South’s worst and most hated general.

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The whole clip really has to be seen. First Trump can't find the guy, who is behind him. Then he sounds excited because he thinks the envelope is full of cash.

Genuinely one of the saddest spectacles I've ever watched. https://t.co/pyjoSYAd3b
— Mike Rothschild (no relation) (@rothschildmd) October 5, 2024

Trump ends the event in North Carolina by once again shouting out Confederates: "Thank you everybody from Fort Bragg!" pic.twitter.com/kBeiYAnI5S
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 4, 2024

Last week:

He spoke of “a million Rambos.” “Turnarounds” and “gotaways” and “dead-head spending.”

Trump, 78, often speaks in a digressive, extemporaneous style that thrills his fans at large-scale rallies. But Tuesday’s event, in front of almost entirely reporters, was especially scattered and hard to follow.

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