A disappointed Trump promises to be his old volatile self at his next rally

Expressing what he called “majorly disappointment” over the limited turnout and lack of enthusiasm at a rally at an Ohio fairgrounds, Donald Trump said he plans to revert to the language and intensity he used on Jan. 6, when his sycophants stormed the U.S. capitol.

Further, he said, “I’ll be calling out all those turncoats who pledged loyalty to me before my rally in Wellington but suddenly decided they had more important things to do on Saturday than show up and offer their undying gratitude for my last presidency and my next one.”

Trump was noticeably heavier and with a complexion more burnt umber than the tangerine color he sported for most of his years occupying the White House.

“More time in the sun on the golf courses at Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster, and more good chow than the hoity-toity crap I had to eat with all those visiting heads of state,” Trump said. “They don’t know how good a bucket of KFC can be.”

He said after the rally that he had been advised “by some idiots who are no longer on my staff” to tone down his rhetoric now that he’s a social media pariah in order to gain wider support for his 2024 presidntial campaign.

“A lot of good that did me,” Trump said. “The people out here today, I could’ve had them revved up and ready to storm Congress again. But half of them, most of them, didn’t seem to give a s— what I was saying. Well, so much for that. Next rally I’m going to burn the joint down.

“We’re not even an hour away from Cleveland. I expected at least 50,000 people. What the f— is wrong with these people?” Trump growled, unaware that the lectern microphone was on. “I guess I should be happy with the 20,000 I drew.”

Both the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office and Wellington Police Department said they estimated Trump’s actual crowd at 2,300, with another 5,000 spectators attending the Lorain County Fair Hay Bale Contest, Central Ohio Pony Pull and the Demolition Derby and not paying attention to the former president and his guest speakers, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Despot.

“Actually,” Wellington Police Chief Tim Barfield said, “when you consider that the population of our village is just a tad over 4,800, the only thing Trump did was put a lot of overtime pay in a lot of our pockets and screw up our budget for the rest of the summer.”

Trump took aim at his usual targets – former Vice President Mike Pence and Republican congressional leaders Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, plus California Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Pudenda – as well as Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, none of whom attended the rally.

“Weasels, all of ’em, except for Noons,” he said, mispronouncing Nunes’ name. “He’s not even a weasel. He’s a p—y. Look at him. He’s the guy we beat up every day in high school.”

DeWine said he couldn’t attend the rally because he was committed to meeting with his economic advisors to reorganize his personal finances – his net worth is estimated at $20-million – prior to an Internal Revenue Service audit which he claims Trump ordered during his last week in office. And Husted, according to a spokesperson, was undergoing additional treatments Saturday for the aftereffects of concussions sustained while playing football at the University of Dayton in 1989.

Early in the proceedings, Emily Moreno, 27, the daughter of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, approached Trump, accompanied by her fiance, Max Miller, who is challenging Ohio Rep. Anthony E. Gonzalez in a Republican primary. Gonzalez voted to impeach Trump.

The former president elbowed his way past Miller, whom he had never met, approached Moreno, smiled and said, “Say, could I …” before a member of Trump’s staff coughed loudly, spun him around and said, “Mr. President, I want to you to meet the guy who’s going to take Gonzalez’s seat.”