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From Rockin’ to “Very Sad”

On the eve of the 2019 New Hampshire primary President Trump held a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire at Southern New Hampshire University, where by the way in August, 2019, he broke the attendance record for that venue, 11,500. (The prior attendance record having been held by Elton John, was 11,400.) I was surprised that my local “newspaper” actually reported on this rally. Of course, the article did not mention that the arena was again packed and rockin’, “ or that some of the attendees had been lined up for more than twenty-four hours before the doors opened. 

The writers from the NYT and WaPo did emphasize that the President suggested that in an open primary, perhaps Republicans and Independents should vote for the weakest Democrat candidate . . . if they could figure out who that was!! That reminded me of a longtime hard-core conservative friend who this year has registered as Democrat . . . Huh? I shook my head in disbelief, but he said he had to register as a Democrat in order to vote for the weakest Democrat candidate in the upcoming primary! Last week when I asked  him who he would vote for it the primary, he was u decided . . . perhaps he could not figure out who the weakest candidate was either!

However the most impressive thing that the President did that night was not his rally. He and Vice President, Mike Pence, attended a Dignified Transfer at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware for two U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan. The remains of Sgt. Rodriguez and Sgt. Gutierrez were flown back to the U.S aboard a C-17 cargo aircraft, and both President Trump and Vice President Pence cut their appearance short at the Manchester rally, so that they could fly unannounced for the Dignified Transfer, where they both stood at attention in a light rain as the flag-draped remains of the soldiers were loaded into a waiting vehicle. “Very sad,” tweeted the President.

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