As our nation continues to move into and through the early goings of the Biden presidency, Donald Trump is looking to reinsert himself into the political conversation in a big way. Having been arbitrarily tossed from Twitter and Facebook following the 2020 election, Trump has had to head back out on the road to make his voice heard.
And while his supporters were eager to attend his first big rally back, some were concerned that Trump’s message was not evolving quickly enough.
QAnon supporters, some of whom are the former president’s most fanatical online backers, sent a barrage of messages through the Telegram app that expressed boredom and even anger at the speech Trump described as “the very first rally of the 2022 election.” They blasted Trump for not mentioning how his January 6 insurrection supporters are “rotting in jail.” And numerous others said Trump should be booed by the Ohio rallygoers for even “bringing up the word ‘vaccine,’” specifically because they believe COVID-19 was entirely a hoax.
But a majority of the top QAnon user comments simply expressed their outright boredom with Trump’s post-election stump speech, in which he baselessly claimed to have won in November 2020 and blasted any dissenting GOP members as “traitors.”
Trump has long been considered the most likely 2024 presidential candidate for the Republicans, thanks to his enormous and loyal base. Those who oppose the former NYC business mogul are at the mercy of this massive voter demographic, and, until Trump steps off the political stage for good, he will continue to be the most influential man on the right side of the aisle.
