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[–] poprocks@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Do it. Make it a 5 hour speech in the heat or the day. Show how strong you are by not drinking water or sitting down. I'd watch that.

[–] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

80 years old. morbidly obese. known heart problems. ...do it, genius

[–] YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf 2 points 3 hours ago

He can barely walk, I haven't seen him stand for more that 10 minutes at a time. Dudes cankles gonna leak just like his diaper. I do yard work about an hour at a time and I need a nap after I shower. His heart gonna take a nap too

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I hope he'll get a heat stroke. Among with the handful of idiots who are dumb enough or get paid to turn up as clappers.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago

Would be pretty fitting if heatstroke while bloviating is the thing that finally gets us rid of him 😄

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

Please do, take as much time as you need.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 6 hours ago

Juliany will be scooped out.

[–] PurpleHawkeye619@lemmy.world 52 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Finally a Trump idea I fully support.

And he should try to break the record for longest Presidential Speech ever, set by William Henry Harrison at 1 hour 45 minutes.

What ever happened to that guy anyway?

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

That's child's play. A real manly man like Trump should at least hold a speech longer than the 2010 Bernie Sanders filibuster

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

He caught a cold, and had to leave the presidency in a hurry

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 25 points 13 hours ago

He's going to sweat and his makeup will trail down his face like gulliani

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 83 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Come onnnnn heat stroke! Do your thing nature please

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 29 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

He's going for the ol' reverse William Henry Harrison.

[–] sananibar@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Someone always beats me to it. I will have an original thought one of these days. I'm due, surely.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 9 points 14 hours ago

If you never saw a wheel, and you made one, you invented it.

You just didn't invent it first.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

I was just coming here to say that

[–] becausechemistry@piefed.social 14 points 14 hours ago

There are people (not naming names) that, if assassinated, would be much more powerful in death than in life. I mean, one in particular is more powerful for what he represents to morons than what he actually is already.

In that case, it would be better for them to pass naturally, in public, because of their own decisions. Maybe by giving a record-setting delirious rambling speech in the July heat and finally letting one of those blood clots cut loose? One can dream.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 23 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The ghost of William Henery Harrison will be in the audience.

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

🎶 I died in thirty days! 🎶

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I hope Mitch and all the geriatric octogenarian dinos and conservatives will be there to show their support. It'd also make the place feel less empty.

[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 8 points 16 hours ago

Good thing nobody will be there.