A.G. Gancarski
While plenty of lapsed Republicans have run as the national standard-bearer for the Libertarian Party, this year will mark the first time a current GOP presidential candidate will speak at their national convention.
The Libertarian Party announced that former President Donald Trump will address the party faithful in Washington, D.C., on Memorial Day Weekend.
“Join us for a historic moment at the 2024 Libertarian National Convention as we welcome former President Donald J. Trump to the podium. This momentous occasion will mark the first time a former President directly addresses our members, candidates, and executive committee. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear insights from a prominent figure in American politics and watch him engage with Libertarian ideals,” the pitch begins, before a call to action that requires a nominal fee.
“Be sure to register for the convention and cast your vote on the topics President Trump will address during his time at the podium. If you aren’t able to make it to convention, no problem! You can still register to vote in this poll by paying the $10 entry fee.”
The national Libertarian conclave begins on May 23, and at this writing it’s unclear when Trump will speak. There are a number of Libertarians running for President as well.
17 comments
KathrynA
May 1, 2024 at 10:47 am
He probably should be speaking to an autocrat convention!
Larry Gillis, Libertarian
May 1, 2024 at 11:07 am
We’re not afraid of outside ideas somehow penetrating Our Bubble, precisely because there is NO bubble “chez nous”. So, we extended an invite to the presumptive nominees of the “legacy” Parties.
Presumably the Republicans will reciprocate at THEIR national convention. (They’ll give us a slot at 2:00 AM on the third day, that sort of thing, but it’s the thought that counts).
Yours in Liberty,
Larry Gillis, Cape Coral
MH/Duuuval
May 1, 2024 at 1:19 pm
So, you’re happy to get a slap upside the head from the Great American Autocrat?
June Genis
May 1, 2024 at 12:11 pm
Are you kidding? The Rs will never reciprocate and this invitation is an insult to every woman in the party. It deserves a formal protest and boycott.
MH/Duuuval
May 1, 2024 at 5:52 pm
We’ll see if GOP women will stand by their men in Nov. It’s a secret ballot and perhaps Red women will create a stink and vote for the Ds.
Dont Say FLA
May 1, 2024 at 1:39 pm
The Donaldzzzzzzzz talking to Libertarians sounds like a good fit.
Donalzzzzzzz should be a Libertarian, not a Republican seeing’s how he is the king of RINOs.
You know Libertarians, right? The whack jobs who never get more than 2% of votes cast despite their platform sounding good? That is a perfect fit for the Donaldzzzzzzzz, assuming he would be okay with
a goodhaving a political platform, any political platform at all.Seebeck
May 1, 2024 at 6:20 pm
So being for individual freedom, personal responsibility, free markets, limited government, peace, family, and prosperity is somehow “whack job”?
You have some very weird standards of life.
rick whitaker
May 1, 2024 at 7:11 pm
SEEBECK, in all of the preferences and attributions you listed, as good standards, i see a highly subjective conjecture attached to all of them. i am for biden, and i attest to all the same preferences, but i still see a libertarian as a vote flusher.
MH/Duuuval
May 2, 2024 at 1:14 pm
“individual freedom, personal responsibility, free markets, limited government, peace, family, and prosperity ”
How do these values square with the MAGA nanny state?
Seebeck
May 1, 2024 at 6:18 pm
While Trump is no libertarian, he is far closer than Biden or Kennedy, that’s for sure. This will be very interesting and it’s good publicity for the LP. Whiners are gonna whine, especially those recently displaced from the LP. Tune in on May 24th (the projected slot).
MH/Duuuval
May 1, 2024 at 9:50 pm
EXCEPT libertarians believe strongly in civil liberties and DJT does not — nor does Dee and the other “disrupters” who are autocrats.
Liberty Joe
May 2, 2024 at 11:27 am
A group does a hostile take-over of the LP, the justification of which being that the LP had lost its way and become “too Republican”, by casting shame on the most successful Libertarian candidate in party history – Gary Johnson, who was a popular two/term Republican Governor, who saw the light and left the GOP in favor of the advancement of freedom.
This group of trolls then, celebrates the idea of the Republican nominee taking time and attention away from the delegation of that convention, as if Trump, who is a xenophobe, who lobbied for, AND GOT the largest debt increase in the nation’s history, could be called friendly to libertarianism.
It had been long rumored that the funding for that hostile take-over came from the Trump camp after blaming the Jo Jorgensen campaign for his losses in several states.
With the apparent celebration by the leaders of that cult, it sure seems evident that Trump, after paying to put them in power, is coming to have his ring kissed…
On the plus side, with the LP currently at its weakest point in decades (as measured by fund-raising, bank balance, electoral success, membership numbers, etc…), the Trump campaign no longer need worry about a ‘Libertarian threat’ this November, so his campaign can stop paying these moles, and they will likely burn-out and go away, and the Libertarian Party can repopulate with libertarians.
MH/Duuuval
May 2, 2024 at 1:18 pm
Interesting insight into the LP.
Michael K
May 2, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Good insight. I’m also fascinated by the hostile takeover of what used to be the Republican party by Trump. It looks more and more like the mafia than a political party – i.e. no debated platform. Rather, it seems to be a subsidiary and Trump ATM.
rick whitaker
May 2, 2024 at 3:20 pm
when trump goes to the libertarian wacko’ for support, you know he’s scared of losing.
Cynthia C Baldwin
May 5, 2024 at 5:03 pm
I don’t get it – the Libertarian Party will run a candidate for President, but they have Donald Trump coming to speak to try to take votes away from their guy? No wonder the Libertarians are a party of losers. Why even bother with a convention?
rick whitaker
May 5, 2024 at 11:01 pm
CYNTHIA, liberations want butter on both sides of their toast, and then complain when their fingers get greasy.
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