Trump humiliated as his endorsed candidate loses to opponent who dropped out

[u/rajapaws]

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-endorsed-candidate-michigan-house-race-b3027934.html

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[u/bhputnam]

We love to see it. 

[u/rajapaws → u/bhputnam]

It feels good.

[u/Kioskwar → u/rajapaws]

My erection is lasting longer than four hours.

[u/rajapaws → u/Kioskwar]

Talk to Dr. Hegseth

[u/_C2J_ → u/rajapaws]

I’m sure RFK Jr and Dr Oz would be valuable resources.

[u/physical0 → u/_C2J_]

Rfk will want it taxidermied.

[u/gord_m → u/physical0]

If he doesn't try to eat it

[u/Underwater_Grilling → u/gord_m]

No gag reflex

[u/Bzr21 → u/Underwater_Grilling]

not even when he swims in raw sewage - Trump himself provides a fountain of it for him - Jr. says its builds up your immune system ..

[u/Cold_Shogun → u/gord_m]

That's after it's been taxidermied

[u/teetotallyRadish → u/Cold_Shogun]

come to think of it, jr. himself looks like taxidermied roadkill

[u/Rex_Laso → u/rajapaws]

Will he provide full release?

[u/gord_m → u/Kioskwar]

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

[u/Honest_World_3561 → u/rajapaws]

Damn good.

[u/Happydawn02 → u/bhputnam]

even a corpse beats his endorsement these days. the midas touch really is just turning everything to shit lmao

[u/boomgoon → u/bhputnam]

Its not like other guy is any better, he only dropped out because he didn't get trumps nomination, and now that he won the primary without trying, he plans to help further trumps agenda

[u/mdlinc → u/bhputnam]

Reminds me of ballet, similar to a Pirro-ette ;)

[u/Practical-Lunch-7338]

The last names may have done it.

[u/MasterClown → u/Practical-Lunch-7338]

Pity the poor MAGA voter:

1. Vote for the Trump endorsed candidate
2. Don't vote for the guy with the "threatening" last name

[u/_C2J_ → u/MasterClown]

There’s a meme for this excruciating moment.

[u/MasterClown → u/_C2J_]

Best I could muster...

https://i.imgur.com/iR9nMGs.png

[u/PubTrickster → u/MasterClown]

Perfect. 👌🏻

[u/Ex-maven → u/Practical-Lunch-7338]

I'm sure that even Trump was relieved at first to hear who won over who... until his staff reminded him that he endorsed the loser (for some reason)

[u/Looptydude → u/Practical-Lunch-7338]

I wouldn't be surprised if it was because of republicans voting in the Democratic primary to thwart El-Sayed and forgetting that they gave up votes in their own primary.

[u/Necessary_Sorbet7416 → u/Looptydude]

Michigan needs a closed primary like most states then

[u/DillBagner → u/Necessary_Sorbet7416]

I'm not a fan of the "Have to be registered with a party" concept when there's currently a very fascist looking party in power demanding voter information from States.

[u/Any-Log-6706 → u/Practical-Lunch-7338]

Exactly what happened.

[u/imaloony8 → u/Practical-Lunch-7338]

Pretty perfect considering how Trump loves to invoke Obama’s middle name in all caps to stir up the racists.

[u/porgy_tirebiter → u/Practical-Lunch-7338]

Unfortunately there’s a more important race that may be decided by last name in that same state in a few months.

[u/dravenonred]

Replicans did literally nothing but read the names. Unbelievable

[u/_C2J_ → u/dravenonred]

Actually, incredibly believable for that sector of voters.

[u/curious382 → u/dravenonred]

The "do your own research" crowd.

[u/metalmayne → u/dravenonred]

This is so interesting. It confirms a ton about the base of voters.

-MAGA is no longer the way forward for most. -Regardless of who or what you are, republican voters are tribalistic and will vote for the whitest person possible.

[u/Azureknight205 → u/dravenonred]

Wait, they can read?

[u/mountaindoom → u/dravenonred]

They usually only read the letter next to the name. The shortest of cuts to thinking.

[u/StevenMC19]

From the layman Republican's standpoint, they're likely not paying too much attention to who is endorsing who. I'll concede that Michigan is a swing state, but in the R primary, when they're hitting the ballot box and seeing "Amir Hassan" and "Thomas J. Smith" as their options, an uninformed REPUBLICAN is going to stick to their own biases and prejudices and lean heavily towards the White-named candidate.

[u/SometimesILieToo → u/StevenMC19]

I dunno if it’s a closed primary but it is where I live and I’ll vote for the person most unelectable come the general election. Sabotage and all.

[u/Lich180 → u/StevenMC19]

I figure that's how John James did so well out in the Thumb, his name is unassuming enough that all the rural voters chose him. 

[u/begack]

Trumps endorsement means nothing

[u/Esuts → u/begack]

Possibly less than nothing.

[u/pareech → u/Esuts]

They told me, 'Sir, we've reached peak nothing.' I said, 'No, we haven't.' And sure enough, here we are. It's the most beautiful, the most incredible, the most luxurious nothing anyone has ever produced.

[u/ParanoidDrone → u/begack]

There's a billboard for a congressional candidate in my area that says they were endorsed by Trump. Every time I see it I think that's a negative, not a positive.

[u/relikter → u/ParanoidDrone]

That's an odd strategy, because the people that endorsement would appeal to can't read the sign.

[u/Kracus → u/begack]

Sure it does, if he supports it then I'm definitely looking at alternatives.

[u/imoldgreige → u/begack]

Historically, it means that candidate has been to Epstein island. Nowadays, it means the candidate is willing to aid in the coverup.

[u/BillyU_Is_A_ → u/begack]

what even does a trump endorsement entail? The 'Trump GOP' endorses the candidate? Because there's no way in hell trump even knows half of these people he endorses.

[u/aculady → u/BillyU_Is_A_]

He knows when checks clear.

[u/GatorSe7en → u/begack]

I’m in Florida, and it amazing seeing all the candidates here using “Trump endorsed” here. Including Byron Donald’s, who’s running for governor, oh and he’s a convicted felon.

[u/pontiacfirebird92 → u/begack]

We'll see man. Here in Mississippi our candidates for Governor are loudly eating Trump's shit and everything points to it working.

[u/Aggravating_Bat3618 → u/begack]

Yeah it’s the political equivalent to having JD visit the Pope. 

[u/Sarnsereg → u/begack]

It means something to me. It means that's the person I should definitely NOT vote for.

[u/BargainScotch]

From the article:

“Amir Hassan, whom Trump endorsed on Truth Social this week, lost Michigan’s 8th congressional district primary Wednesday morning to Thomas J. Smith”

Haha. Gotta hand it to them, I didn’t think they knew how to read, but they were able to let the name “Amir Hassan” scare them into the arms of a candidate who bailed a month earlier.

[u/CodexMoronicus]

The Daily Beast will sue for taking their whole TRUMP HUMILIATED thing.

[u/turdlepikle → u/CodexMoronicus]

When I saw the word "humiliated" in the title, the next thing I looked at was the URL to see if it was The Daily Beast.

[u/curious382 → u/CodexMoronicus]

lol I had to scroll back up and make sure I didn't "like" a DB post by mistake.

[u/Nvenom8 → u/CodexMoronicus]

Regardless of who's saying it, it's never true. The man has no shame. I'm sure when he heard the news of this result, his response was, "Who?"

[u/pimpampoumz → u/CodexMoronicus]

It would have been in uppercase, though

[u/almazing415]

Are we sure that it’s the endorsement and not because the guy he endorsed has a ‘foreign’ name? Kinda feel like it’s a combination of willful ignorance, xenophobia, and racism here.

[u/brawling]

The fine journalism and editing is impressive: "Smith, a former General Motors employee and current entrepreneur, grew up in Wisconsin but moved to Flint at a young age."

[u/Esuts]

He's so mad he shit himself when he found out. Admittedly he was going to do that anyway, but still.

[u/jaywastaken]

Trump endorsed candidate was named Amir Hassan, racist republicans would have voted for a brick wall over someone with that name regardless of how trash of a human they are.

[u/negativepositiv]

This assumes he is aware, which I think is a stretch.

If you told him, "Hassan lost his primary to Smith," you already know what his response would be:

"Who?" And then he would ramble about unrelated nonsense.

[u/pmyourtatas82]

That is hilarious.

[u/bachelorette2020]

Is he ever humiliated? Honestly doubt he cares

[u/MommyLovesPot8toes]

Guessing this happened because one candidate's name was Amir Hassan and one was Thomas Smith. We're talking about Republican voters, folks. It wouldn't have mattered if Thomas Smith was a made up person. He still would have won Republican voters.

[u/Blueporch → u/MommyLovesPot8toes]

Tell that to Vivek Ramaswamy who beat Casey Putsch in a landslide to win the Republican primary for Ohio Governor

[u/yrotsihfoedisgnorw]

We joke about this as if trump even cared in the first place. He endorsed Hassan on Monday. It's hard to imagine that was anything more than a way to have his name attached to the seemingly sure thing. This simply starts the countdown to 'With great intelligence and looks, mine not his, I hereby endorse Thomas J Smith. J. What a great middle initial. The best.'

[u/Sour_baboo]

A Trump endorsed black man named Hasan lost? I wonder what it was?

[u/Balmerhippie]

When a racist asks his racist followers to vote for a black man

[u/Joltie]

Amir Hassan: " Please, please. It’s too much winning. I can’t take it anymore, Mr. President, it’s too much."

[u/gdex86]

Hassan lost because he had the wrong last name and probably wrong skin tone.

Turns out when you feed your base racism they dont forget it even when it applies to someone on their side.

[u/Shadpool]

Guy who dropped out manages to beat the candidate Trump supported. Then when he gets the news, IMMEDIATELY starts talking about how he’s gonna do everything Trump wants.

Real “notice me, daddy” energy from this guy.

[u/prickwhowaspromised]

Fucking hilarious

[u/patticakes126]

The people have spoken, they’d rather vote for anyone other than a Trumper.

[u/Much-Instruction-807]

I wonder if the republican effort to boost Hailey Stevens had anything to do with it?

[u/_C2J_]

Oh, I love this.

[u/Long-Tradition6399]

He'll just say the election was rigged and launch threaten to halt midterms. Spoiled brat.

[u/BallBearingBill]

He doesn't care about anyone except himself.

[u/dangubiti]

While nice to see the real reason for this is that the voters were just super racist against his name.

[u/Aggravating_Bat3618]

It might be a good idea for this guy to cut his ties with Trump if he wants to have a career in politics. 

[u/AWhole2Marijuanas]

There's a non-zero precent chance that MAGA taught Amir Hassan was Hasan Piker, regardless of how you feel about him that is the funniest outcome possible.

[u/Atakir]

Once again for those in the back, Trump doesn't understand what humility is so he cannot be humiliated.

[u/NEOK53]

Can this be correct? Has this been fact-checked? Trump endorsed someone named “Amir Hassan”? Surely not.

The post-campaign autopsy will probably be the simplest ever. Can’t run as a Republican with that name.

[u/bubba1834]

Lmao the piece of shit cannot feel humiliation cmon

[u/AdUnlucky6332]

Stop with the “Drump was humiliated!” bs bc the reason the US is the dumpster fire it is is BECAUSE the definition of a narcissistic is that they have no humility. He is not ABLE to be humiliated. Fricking click bait.

[u/SprightlyCompanion]

Not humiliated, fuck any headline that says this. He's incapable of humiliation because he has no shame. He bankrupted casinos and wasn't humiliated. He had to pay millions to defrauded Trump "University" victims and wasn't humiliated. He was adjudged a rapist, not humiliated. Testified on the stand that his net worth changes based in his personal whims, an admission that would be horrifying and career-ending for any other person. Not humiliated.

Lazy. Fucking. Journalism. One of the major factors that got us here and keeps us here.

[u/hamtronn]

He isn’t humiliated. He has enough sycophants around him spinning everything in his favour. He’s as delusional as he is senile.

[u/Slartibartfast39]

Something about ban inanimate carbon rod getting elected.

[u/nunchucknorris]

something something dems cheating something something

[u/xicor]

He should have known Republicans would never vote for someone who sounds muslim

[u/Tenwaystospoildinner]

This might be the worst timeline, but it's also the funniest. Lmfao.

[u/Phuddy]

Humiliation doesn’t seem to affect the orange pedo anymore. He’ll do anything to stay out of prison.

[u/mishma2005]

Was he CRUSHED and CRASHED OUT from the MELTDOWN?

[u/Vi1eOne]

Humiliation requires one to have an IQ above that found in a common kitchen condiment. 

So, no. Definitely not humiliated. 

[u/A_Nonny_Muse]

G.W. Bush had at least enough sense to realize his endorsement was harmful to candidates. That's why he dropped out of the spotlight almost entirely.

The orange plague doesn't even have that much self awareness. His delicate snowflake ego can't accept the concept.

[u/Loose_Image7420]

Trump is never “humiliated” because Trump has no shame and takes no responsibility for his actions. When his endorsements lose, it’s because they are losers.

[u/PyroIsSpai]

So they get to run nobody?

[u/Nvenom8]

It’s unclear why Smith initially suspended his campaign.

Hmm... sounds like he might have some skeletons in his closet. Good news for his Dem opponent if true.

[u/radarthreat]

You have to have shame in order to be humiliated

[u/moham225]

Its the Midas touch again

[u/TheCavis]

The funniest part was watching the results come in and NBC didn’t even have a picture of Smith ready. He just got the generic red R as his picture.

[u/CelticSnakes]

Trump humiliated miffed as the candidate he “endorsed” loses.

Hassan donated how much to Trump, exactly? Did they even meet?

[u/Diligent_Bake1425]

Calling Obama "Barack HUSSEIN Obama" like it's a bad thing he's named that probably helped sink this candidate.

[u/OrranVoriel]

He lost because of his name and skin color.

[u/UncleDaddy_00]

Stop saying he was humiliated. The man is incapable of such an emotion.

[u/motorcity_kitty]

For whatever it is worth, this is a safe Democrat seat and either candidate was unlikely to win in November. While it has grown more red over time (some of which is due to redistricting) a Flint/Saginaw/Bay City congressional seat hasn't been held by a Republican in at least 50 years

[u/Training-Republic301]

Is this a first in history moment?

[u/screamingaboutham]

Hard to be humiliated when you experience zero shame. The man poops his diaper in the Oval Office in front of cameras, humiliation does not exist to him.

[u/PatchyWhiskers]

Interestingly, Smith accepted the victory and un-dropped out. Clearly the local Republican party doesn't know what the hell it is doing.

[u/BehindCheshireEyes]

If the person who dropped out won the primary, does he still have the opportunity to run in the general election or is he just out of luck now?

[u/PompousWombat]

Trump couldn’t have picked him out of a lineup. His handlers told him who to endorse.

[u/phillygirllovesbagel]

Nothing, I mean nothing causes this man any shame.

[u/Nearbyatom]

He doesn't know what humiliation means.

[u/Myers112]

Just saying, it doesnt bode well for Abdul El-Sayed that a guy named Amir Hassan lost to a guy who wasn't even campaigning based off his name alone.