As the Aurora Sentinel reports, word broke late yesterday (H/T to the Colorado Times Recorder) that ex-President Donald Trump, having blown a self-imposed deadline to visit the city of Aurora, Colorado after adding the false tale of the city’s “takeover” by Venezuelan gang members to his stump speeches, will indeed make an appearance in Aurora on Friday–in the most technical sense, because the backdrop for Trump’s visit will bear little resemblance to the run-down apartment building we’ve all seen on TV:
Donald Trump’s campaign announced Monday the Republican presidential nominee will hold a rally at the Gaylord Rockies in Aurora after weeks of repeating debunked allegations about the city being overrun by Venezuelan gang members.
“Aurora, Colorado has become a ‘war zone’ due to the influx of violent Venezuelan prison gang members from Tren de Aragua,” Trump’s campaign said in a press release. “With approximately 43,000 migrants flooding the neighboring city of Denver since December 2022, many of these migrants have made their way to Aurora, bringing chaos and fear with them.”
Trump’s critics, local police and city officials — including Republican Mayor Mike Coffman — have said the allegations are untrue.
But after expressing excitement at the chance to prove to Trump that the stories he’s telling about Aurora aren’t true, Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman appears to be meekly copping out of that responsibility:
Unfortunately for Aurora’s most unreliable narrator, if Coffman wants to set Trump straight about his city, it looks like the rally will be his only opportunity. The Gaylord Rockies resort is located just south of Denver International Airport, which is also the northernmost reaches of Aurora, meaning Trump’s motorcade will be very short and never come close to the area of the city that’s the subject of this months-long campaign of misinformation (see map right). The Gaylord resort is next to Aurora’s Painted Prairie neighborhood, which is all new construction with homes in the area starting “in the low 500s.” The Gaylord resort itself is highly recommended and not cheap–though the occasional collapsing ventilation duct might put a necessary spring in your step.
The point is that there is absolutely nothing in the vicinity of the Gaylord resort to validate Trump’s contention that the city of Aurora, let alone the entire state of Colorado, has been “overrun” by foreign gang members. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more picturesque neighborhood in Aurora to showcase as proof that these months of wild speculation and exaggeration are unfounded. Colorado Republican candidates like Gabe Evans who helped spread the fiction of Aurora’s “takeover” will be left to make Trump’s lies make sense long after Trump Force One departs.
Politically, as we’ve said repeatedly, wasting precious time in October on a campaign stop in Colorado, where polling shows Trump losing to Vice President Kamala Harris by as much as 15 points, makes no sense. The best explanation we can come up with is Trump felt personally goaded into appearing in Aurora after being told to stay away from Springfield, Ohio where he falsely alleged Haitian migrants are “eating the dogs”–and simply doesn’t care if the backdrop to his appearance fails to validate the words that come out of his mouth.
It wouldn’t be Trump’s first self-inflicted mistake. But it’s the one playing out in our backyard.
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Will Gabe Evans and Dave Williams attend the Trump event?
I think Gabe has something to lose in attending (turning off potential voters) and Dave has something to gain by attending (kissing Trumps ass), so one will go and the other will stay put. Just a wild guess.
And, I would make sure there is extra security around the Edge apartment complex. You never know what the pitchfork and torch carrying, highly excitable dullards will do.
You can bet Gabe will be there. He has Trump's endorsement plastered all over his webpage.
Maybe so. It might hurt his chances of winning if he goes, but these folks are not big on thinking things through.
It's like calling Marty McFly a chicken. Trump couldn't resist.
Huge opportunity here. Aurora Dems should invite him on a weekend-long tour to see all that Aurora is and isn't.
Tying him up away from swing states would be HUGE!
Fitting that Trump will no doubt stick Mayor Coffman with the bill for security, maybe even the facility rental, etc.
It's fitting that trump will go to the Gaylord. The Gaylord family is a lovely bunch of fascist fuckwits from Oklahoma that previously owned the Broadmoor and one of the worst newspapers in the U.S., The Daily Oklahoman. That resort is classless centtral, so trump belongs there. He can say "hi" to hardworking immigrants that keep that place running.
Isn't it nice that the Tlump team could find a resort not in Florida this week in need of superhero quick saving both shithole enough for Tlump's purposes and tastes, and also so close to a major airport? This quick Aurora swoop-and-poop mission will probably even allow sufficient minutes to gather a pocketfull of large local thank-you checks.
Friday the 11th … I liked the comment in the Denver Gazette:
Wonder if he'll go to Denver International or land at Buckley Space Force base runways …
I'm pretty sure as a private citizen, Trump and his campaign plane wouldn't be allowed to land at Buckley. It is reserved for official air transportation (like Air Force One). He doesn't use Andrews Air Force Base for his flights to the northeast as far as I know. His private Boeing 757 lands at commercial airports all the time.