Former President Donald Trump spoke at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
He was welcomed to the stage by Angela McArdle, the Libertarian National Committee Chair. She said that she had also invited Joe Biden to address the Convention, but he did not accept. Of course not. Joe Biden is barely able to operate with teleprompters, he could never address a potentially hostile crowd.
Trump was willing to take on the task in the effort to reach out to libertarians. And that was quite a challenge, as some were solidly hostile, likely not happy that a candidate — other than a declared libertarian — was there. He got a fair amount of boos before he even began speaking. That didn’t make a lot of sense, to boo the major candidate who shows up and says he wants to listen to you.
He also didn’t make them happy when he said he wanted them to work together and vote for him to stop Joe Biden (rather than voting for a libertarian).
I have to give him all kinds of props for the effort to reach the audience. He started by calling for a moment of silence for the two Missouri missionaries who were killed in Haiti this week.
As he spoke, the booing did go down a lot, including when Trump spoke about protecting freedoms and rights. It was a great recitation of the things he’d done to help protect freedoms, and reduce government regulation, taxes, and interference in our lives.
He got booed for 30 minutes. He walked away looking like a cucked out loser.