Trump starts and ends Colorado Springs speech by ripping the local fire marshal
“That’s why we’re going to hell.”
Moments after Donald Trump took the stage on a college campus in Colorado Springs, he tore into what is really making America not so great.
“We have thousands of people in a room next door,” he said. “We have thousands of people trying to get in and we have a fire marshal that says ‘No, we can’t allow more people in.'”
Trump said it was “so unfair” to those who couldn’t make it inside the 1,500-capacity auditorium.
“They won’t let them in, and the reason they won’t let them in is because they don’t know what the hell they’re doing, that’s why,” Trump said to loud cheers. “That’s why our country has — hey, maybe they’re a Hillary person. Could that be the answer? Probably.”
Trump called it a “disgraceful situation,” adding, “this is the kind of thing we have in federal government also, by the way, and then you wonder why we’re going to hell. That’s why we’re going to hell.”
A long line of attendees trying to get in snaked down the sidewalk and around the building. Those who couldn’t get in filled a separate room on campus.
Toward the end of his hourlong speech, Trump again circled back and lit up the fire marshal.
“He’s probably a Democrat,” Trump said. “Probably a guy that doesn’t get it.”
He ended by saying he would go speak to the overflow crowd next door.
Following the speech, Brett Lacey, the fire marshal in question, said in an interview he is a registered voter but declined to say whether he is a member of a political party.
“It doesn’t matter to me,” he said. “We’re just here to do the job.”
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Another STUPID remark by Trump, who isn’t qualified to be a fire marshal much less president of this country. Maybe this idiot from NYC ought to read history of fire codes including the Triangle Fire in NYC that killed/burned to death hundreds of women and children. The reason Trump’s campaign booked UCCS is because it was a smaller venue than the Western Conservative Summit where Trump couldn’t fill be half of the room – and he was embarrassed.
THIS is how he acts presidential? I’d hate to see how he acts when he’s being a whining BABY! Good God, republicans, is this REALLY what you want the president of this country to act like? What is WRONG with you people? You’ve lost your minds in an attempt to show how much you hate Obama. That’s not sane, people.
I feel sorry for you, really I do. You’ve lost sight of what it means to BE an American. And all so you can hate on the black president. Shame on you people.
Donald Trump verbally attacked Fire Marshal Brett Lacey, a brave man who was named Citizen of the Year in February, for his efforts following the shootings at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood Clinic in November. This is how much Trump respects others because its all about the Donald 24/7. He is a cruel narcissist.
So, because the Fire Marshal enforced code, he’s a damned dirty democrat and must be a “Hillary person”
But had the Fire Marshal BROKEN the rules, he’d be a Trump person.
Therefore, Break the rules for [Trump] if you want to be rewarded. SOUNDS LIKE RIGGING is ok for Dodgy Donald.
Typical, transparent, one-dimensional, and totally predictable Trump. *yawn*
I’m sure Trump really doesn’t expect them to overfill the auditorium and there is more to the story. There usually is. For instance, in other articles they say it holds 2500 people, but here it says 1500. Did they not let all 2500 in? It’s not like he left people who were counting on him to die or anything.