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elbanditoroso's avatar

Is Donald Trump such a loser that he hired actors to cheer for him at his presidential announcement?

Asked by elbanditoroso (33577points) June 18th, 2015

Looks like the answer is yes !

link from Hollywood Reporter

What does this say about America?

- actors whore themselves out to politicians for $50 cash?

- politicians are so unpopular that they need to pay people to cheer?

- we Americans are so stupid that we believe this sort of announcement because we see it on TV?

What a world…

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JLeslie's avatar

I think a lot of them do it. They also purposely sit particular people behind them to show diversity or whoever they are trying to target. I heard sometimes they plant hecklers in during a speech to make the “other side” seem like lunatics.

stanleybmanly's avatar

You can’t fault the actors. I’d take the clown’s money in a hot second, and cheer as though he were the Mesiah. Why? Because all the cheering in the world will not prevent the orange topped buffoon from making a bigger fool of himself. Come to think of it, there can be no greater gift to the Democrats than the perennial menagerie of freaks and mutants dependably fielded by the G O P. For those on the left, the longer Trump pretends to be a viable candidate, the better.

zenvelo's avatar

Not at all different from what Ted Cruz did when he announced.

Cruz spoke at Liberty University where the entire student body was required to attend.Many of the captive audience could be seen wearing Rand Paul t-shirts, and focused solely on their phones.

And then he had everyone text his campaign address, so he could collect names and addresses of the students into his database of “supporters.”

elbanditoroso's avatar

@zenvelo – I hadn’t heard that about Cruz. But that’s odious in the extreme.

stanleybmanly's avatar

Cruz, Trump, etc, I’ll cheer these guys and all the other defectors from Narcissists Anonymous with G O P Presidential ambitions. This reliable nourishing boon is the monsoon of the late nite television and stand up comic industries. There’s something rather nice in knowing that every 4 years we will also be treated to the funny side of stupidity and evil.

josie's avatar

Not a new thing in politics. This is one of the ways that politicians use their “walkin around money”

ucme's avatar

This doesn’t seem anything new, rent-a-crowd it’s called.

Apparently_Im_The_Grumpy_One's avatar

We live in a place/time where “the terminator” was elected Governor. Just sayin..

Pachy's avatar

Welcome to the 3-ring circus which is American politics.

ragingloli's avatar

Honestly, I would take Arnie over Cruz/Trump/Palin or any of their ilk.

stanleybmanly's avatar

@Apparently_Im_The_Grumpy_One Actually the governator was one of the big surprises of my adult life. The man actually has a working brain and did many things here defiant of the mule like obstinance of his party.

SquirrelEStuff's avatar

American politics has been fake for a very long time, but is now becoming somewhat transparent thanks to the Internet.
This will hopefully be the first presidential election where the mainstream media may not have a huge influence, but unfortunately, the establishment still has this

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