Donald Trump, JD Vance and RFK Jr.? ‘Weird’ doesn’t do justice to this loony trifecta.

Donald Trump, JD Vance and RFK Jr.? The ‘these guys are weird’ memes launched by Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz to describe Trump and Vance are no match for the Republican Party’s new trifecta of wackadoodles. Show Caption Hide Caption RFK Jr. suspends campaign and endorses Donald Trump Robert F. Kennedy Jr., relative of former President John F. Kennedy, has officially suspended his campaign in the 2024 presidential race. Donald Trump, JD Vance and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walk into the Republican Party and take over. A presidential ticket that has futilely tried to shake the “weird” label became roughly 17 billion times more bananas late last week when Trump accepted Kennedy’s endorsement, shaking his hand onstage at an Arizona rally and hitching the GOP wagon to an insane conspiracy theorist, dangerous anti-vaxxer and noted dead-bear-cub-carcass hauler. The “these guys are weird” memes, birthed by Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz’s description of Trump and Vance, are no match for the Republican Party’s new trifecta of wackadoodles. ‘Weird’ ain’t gonna cut it when describing Trump, Vance and RFK Jr. What word captures a Trump/Vance/RFK Jr. triad? While we try to imagine the heartburn this threesome is causing reasonable people standing in the remains of the Trump-bulldozed Republican Party, let’s break down the odd combo. He still thinks he won the election he lost and his crowd sizes are always bigger than anyone else in history, and he continues to speak regularly of the fictional “late, great Hannibal Lecter” … I could go on, but there’s not enough space. Kennedy isn’t just a dangerous anti-vaccine conspiracist … We’ll skip over Vance ‒ as that’s clearly what Trump would like to do ‒ and go straight to RFK Jr., the Kennedy even the Kennedy family disavows. He ended his ludicrous presidential campaign and endorsed Trump on Friday, a decision that makes perfect sense if you’re a naked opportunist with horrible judgment. He has ranted about journalists being recruited by the CIA to brainwash Americans, part of a CIA program he claims is called “Operation Mockingbird.” He also blamed COVID-19 on the government during a 2022 podcast, and Mother Jones summarized his theory like this: “A global elite led by the CIA had been planning for years to use a pandemic to end democracy and impose totalitarian control on the entire world.” Trump’s already crazy campaign added RFK Jr. for some bonus bonkers If this particular Kennedy walked into a pub and started talking, the drunk guy at the end of the bar would say, “Whoa, dude, you want me to call you a cab or something? You’re not makin’ sense.” Trump’s lies about immigration: GOP presidential nominee stokes fear about migrants driving up crime rate, despite data debunking that When Trump introduced Kennedy as his new endorsee during a Friday rally in Glendale, Arizona, he said the conspiracist has “raised critical issues that have been too long ignored in this country.” Hoo boy! Like it or not, Republicans are now wed to RFK Jr. and his conspiracies Trump’s embrace of RFK Jr. glues the GOP to Kennedy’s years of babbling nonsense. The Trump campaign can hem and haw and say the two sides don’t agree on everything, but good luck threading that needle. The Associated Press reported late last week: “Kennedy’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan … entertained the idea that Kennedy could join Trump’s administration as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.” Hope you like measles and polio, America, because that’s what the Trump/(Vance)/Kennedy ticket has cookin’! JD Vance struggles with doughnuts … and people … and everything Speaking of Vance, though most would rather not, he’s doing little to counter the oddness of the “Trump yelling about stuff that isn’t true while embracing a conspiracy theorist who has a brain worm” vibe. He appeared to not understand how doughnuts work or how to engage with human beings, stiffly asking questions before showing zero interest in the workers’ answers. He was asked if he regrets the comment, and rather than taking that easy lob for a political slam dunk, he babbled and tried to the change the subject then said: “I have a lot of regrets … but making a joke three years ago is not at the top (of) the list.” Way to nail it, weirdo! He also said, “I think that it’s much more important for me to just be a normal human being,” which is both hilarious and something he’s not accomplishing. The GOP is now represented by a trio of kooks So here we are at the tail end of summer 2024, a couple of months before the presidential election and this triumvirate of tedious turkeys somehow constitutes the face of the Republican Party: A lying former one-term president, a senator who can’t handle the complexities of ordering doughnuts and the Kennedy the rest of the Kennedy family won’t invite to Thanksgiving dinner. Now, America needs to find a better word for “weird.” Follow USA TODAY columnist Rex Huppke on X, formerly Twitter, @RexHuppke and Facebook facebook.com/RexIsAJerk – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/08/26/donald-trump-rfk-jr-kennedy-vance-weird-republican-campaign/74947404007/