What Is MAGAGA? Donald Trump's New Slogan Mocked As 'Baby Babble' By Gerrard Kaonga On 11/16/22 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-magaga-presidential-announcement-maga-mocked-1759941?piano_t=1 Donald Trump Announces 2024 Run For President During former President Donald Trump's speech announcing his 2024 presidential run, he introduced his new slogan which was quickly mocked online. Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said he was launching his third presidential campaign. Trump told his supporters: "In order to make America great and glorious again I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States." Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event at his Mar-a-Lago home on November 15, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump said he was launching his third presidential campaign. Getty This phrase would be a play on his 2016 campaign phrase, "Make America Great Again," which was often referred to as "MAGA." Trump's new phrase, MAGAGA, was ridiculed by many after he used it in his speech. Some critics suggested Trump tweaked his initial slogan so that his followers would have to buy new apparel while others simply mocked the similarities it has with that of a baby trying to speak. "It's official! The new name for its campaign is MAGAGA! Congratulations to whoever got there first, let's take it all the way," actress Bette Midler tweeted. Sharing a clip of Trump's announcement, Guardian journalist Tory Shepherd tweeted: "Make America Great and Glorious Again #MAGAGA sounds like a baby babble." TV host Scott Carty also played into the similarities MAGAGA has with babies struggling to speak. "Wait. So it's MAGAGA now?" Carty said as he tweeted a gif of a baby. "I can't be the only one thinking Trump added 'and glorious' to MAGA just so that all his adorers will have to get new hats right? #MAGAGA," author Julie DiCaro wrote. Legal scholar and professor Laurence Tribe tweeted: "So he says he's running. The hats'll have to say MAGAGA—Make America great and glorious again. If it makes you gag, get used to it." Game developer Rasmus Rasmussen tweeted: "Huh. I thought MAGAGA was lady gaga's mom." As well as this ridicule, some Twitter users took issue with the former president's apparent lack of energy and dubbed the announcement "boring." "We've watched Trump with more visible energy and excitement in many of his rallies than right now in Mar-a-Lago," wrote Kathryn Watson, White House reporter for CBS News. Ezra Levin, co-founder of the grassroots movement Indivisible, which was founded in response to Trump's election in 2016, said the former president was "just boring and low energy." Kumar Rao, lecturer at Columbia University Law School, added to the discussion by asking: "Is Trump sick or just weathered now?" "Voice, demeanor cadence all low energy as hell," Rao tweeted.
Mega donors, daughter Ivanka abandon Trump at the starting blocks By Farrah Tomazin Updated November 17, 2022 https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-...p-at-the-starting-blocks-20221117-p5bz15.html Washington: Donald Trump has been dealt a blow after announcing his candidacy for the 2024 election, with key donors abandoning the twice-impeached president and leading Republicans distancing themselves from his launch. One day after Trump declared his rerun for the White House, his biggest potential rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, told reporters he had more pressing things to worry about than leadership tensions within the Republican Party. Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump shakes hands at a rally in 2018. DeSantis is now a potential Trump rival for the White House.Credit:AP “People need to chill out a little bit on some of this stuff, I mean, seriously,” DeSantis said. “At the end of the day, it’s been a long election, we’ve got the Georgia [Senate election] run-off, but for me it’s like, OK, what more do we need to do to continue to make Florida lead the way? We’re going to be focusing on that.” The comments come after Republicans narrowly won control of the House of Representatives on Thursday, setting the scene for a divided and hostile Congress, given the Democrats regained control of the Senate. In another blow, reports emerged that mega donor Stephen Schwarzman, head of the private-equity giant Blackstone, was defecting from Trump’s camp, making him the second big donor, after billionaire hedge fund founder Ken Griffin, to do so in as many weeks. “America does better when its leaders are rooted in today and tomorrow, not today and yesterday,” Schwarzman told Axios. “It is time for the Republican Party to turn to a new generation of leaders and I intend to support one of them in the presidential primaries.” And in another shift overnight, Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who was a special adviser to him in his administration, said she would not be part of her father’s latest tilt for the White House. “I love my father very much. This time around I am choosing to prioritise my young children and the private life we are creating as a family. I do not plan to be involved in politics,” she said in a statement posted on Instagram. Donald Trump stands on stage with former first lady Melania Trump after announcing his third run for president.Credit:AP “While I will always love and support my father, going forward I will do so outside the political arena.” Trump’s candidacy comes after some Republicans urged him to either stand aside after last week’s poor showing in the midterm elections, or at least delay the news until after the Georgia run-off election on December 6 determines the winner of the final Senate seat. However, the former president was determined to reassert his authority over the party and fend off any potential rivals, such as DeSantis (who was re-elected in a landslide last week); former vice president Mike Pence (who has said he was “prayerful considering” running as a candidate); and former secretary of state Mike Pompeo (who has hinted he was weighing up his options). “We need more seriousness, less noise and leaders who are looking forward, not staring in the rearview mirror claiming victimhood,” Pompeo tweeted, in an apparent jab at Trump. Trump made his speech in the ballroom of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida before an audience of allies, advisers, fans and leading business figures. Among them was Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart, who was snapped in the background of a selfie that Trump’s son Eric, with his wife Lara, posted on Instagram. The hour-long speech was more subdued than Trump’s usual rallies and made little mention of his “stolen election” claims beyond a commitment to overhaul electoral processes if he became president again – something that is ultimately up to individual states under America’s decentralised system. Long-time Trump adviser Jason Miller, who helped put the finishing touches on the speech, said it was designed to be forward-looking and “take up the fight” to President Joe Biden. Then US president Donald Trump watches his daughter Ivanka speak at a rally ahead of the 2020 election.Credit:AP Asked about senior figures distancing themselves from Trump, Miller, the chief executive of social media platform GETTR, replied: “President Trump’s always had a unique ability to reach out and connect directly with voters in a way that the elites and the Washington insiders don’t quite understand.” The candidacy was also viewed as a calculation, on Trump’s part, to try to inoculate himself from his many legal challenges, which include probes into his role in the US Capitol attack and an investigation into the alleged mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. Legal experts say Trump would not be afforded any protection from prosecution simply by running as a candidate. However, in such a polarised partisan climate, Attorney-General Merrick Garland, who was appointed by Biden, may consider setting up a special counsel to handle investigations against Trump, given his shift from ex-president to political opponent. Gina Rinehart in the background of an Instagram post by Donald Trump’s son Eric and his wife Lara at the former president’s campaign launch.Credit:Instagram Alan Rozenshtein, a professor of law at the University of Minnesota said Trump’s announcement could also help with his fundraising and campaigning by presenting himself as the victim of a political witch-hunt. “It allows him to go to his rallies and send out fundraising emails that say, they’re against MAGA so much that they’re willing to prosecute me,” said Rozenshtein, a former Justice Department official. “Unfortunately, this is just a cost that the Department of Justice is going to have to swallow.” In terms of campaign financing, Trump has amassed a war chest of about $US100 million ($148 million) through his Save America fundraising arm but will face new restrictions on how he can spend the funds now he is a candidate. Some of that money was transferred into a separate account prior to his announcement and watchdog groups say the law has numerous loopholes that can be exploited. Trump also has a massive “small donor” list thanks to his relentless fundraising over the past two years. In the past two days alone, he has sent out dozens of emails asking for money for his campaign.
Trump threatens to burn down the GOP, it’s time to move on By William Barr https://nypost.com/2022/11/21/trump-threatens-to-burn-down-the-gop-its-time-to-move-on/ ".........It seems to me that Trump isn’t really interested in broadening his appeal. Instead he is content to focus on intensifying his personal hold over a faction within the party — a group that is probably no larger than a quarter of the GOP, but which allows Trump to use it as leverage to extort and bully the rest of the party into submission. The threat is simple: Unless the rest of the party goes along with him, he will burn the whole house down by leading “his people” out of the GOP. Trump’s willingness to destroy the party if he does not get his way is not based on principle, but on his own supreme narcissism. His egoism makes him unable to think of a political party as anything but an extension of himself — a cult of personality. Trump is due credit for stopping progressives’ momentum and achieving important policy successes during his administration. But he does not have the qualities required to win the kind of broad, durable victory I see as necessary to restore America. It is time for the 45th president to step aside. William P. Barr was attorney general under President Donald Trump. Reprinted with permission from Bari Weiss’ Common Sense."
Barr could have put an end of this long ago when Mueller gave him multiple provable crimes Trump committed so he can shut up.