The Farce in the Fairgrounds
Trump’s Iowa speech was a showcase of fearmongering, falsehoods, and authoritarian cosplay—and the crowd roared for more.
Donald Trump’s Iowa State Fairgrounds speech was one of his most unhinged performances yet, a swirling cocktail of lies, grievance, casual bigotry, and carnival-barker delusion, all delivered with the confidence of a man who knows his crowd will cheer no matter what nonsense comes out of his mouth.
He opened by mocking Joe Biden’s speech patterns, repeat…
