Donald Trump rallies are usually never short on a talking point given the sound bites that come out of them. However during a rally in Montana Thursday night there where multiple noteworthy instances that occurred that were out of the ordinary, even for a rally that featured the ramblings and rhetoric of one Donald J. Trump.
First, he turned the blame to his supporters if he was in fact impeached, he struggled to say the word ‘anonymous‘ when railing against the unnamed senior Trump official who wrote the New York Times op-ed piece this past week:
What happened here when President Trump tried twice to pronounce "anonymous"? pic.twitter.com/nwSNnQuKfm
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 7, 2018
There were also people removed from behind Trump during his speech and replaced with individual who were better for the optics.
First, as Trump referred to the Democratic party as being ‘held hostage’ by ‘haters, absolute haters and left-wing haters’ keep an eye on the guy in the plaid shirt just over the POTUS’ right shoulder.
One of the audience members reacts to Trump's speech in Montana: "Today's Democrat Party is held hostage by haters, absolute haters, left-wing haters." pic.twitter.com/wHj8ZWHvHG
— David Choi (@choibboy) September 7, 2018
Then there was this…
"They had me stomping around screaming with anger, up in my area of the White House, where I lived with my wife and son …" pic.twitter.com/xQ0HJ5W8jS
— David Choi (@choibboy) September 7, 2018
The guy in the plaid was eventually talked to by a woman with brown hair who eventually replaced the guy in the plaid. Some on Twitter believed they identified the brunette woman as Zina Bash, a GOP operative who was also at the Brett Kavanaugh hearings earlier in the day.
Jesus it's some hunger games shit up in here. pic.twitter.com/cMzcySyDrt
— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) September 7, 2018
https://twitter.com/NJMonsees/status/1037930130847531008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1037930130847531008&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fentry%2Ftrump-montana-rally-people-replaced_us_5b926b14e4b0162f472c5612
But that wasn’t all. Apparently there wasn’t enough blonde FOX News types in the crowd and the woman with the brown hair and MAGA hat on was soon asked to relocated and was replaced with… you guessed it, someone with blonde hair.
When you realize halfway through a Trump rally that the people in the bleachers need to be peppier and blonder. pic.twitter.com/NytEn23a9g
— Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) September 7, 2018
It’s not uncommon for there to be a mix of supporters directly behind presidents and candidates to reflect a particular optic for the national television audience. What is odd however is making these blatant switches during a broadcast. Not to mention the people they swapped out weren’t protesting or causing a disturbance. I guess they just didn’t fit what MAGA central thought would best convey their ‘look’.
