It’s been a few days since the event, but I think it was one of the most pivotal events in all political history, President Trump’s return to Butler, Pennsylvania, where an assassin tried to kill him and almost succeeded. Shots were projected, and people were hurt in the crowd, and a person died. It was serious stuff, and in this overly litigious world where the safety nazis are ruining everything with a mind-numbing existence of compliance to the authoritative experts of the world, it just doesn’t happen where tragedy is overcome by dramatic optimism. But that was the message Trump brought with him for this return to the site on July 13th, 2024. For Trump to return to the scene of the crime and dominate it with an optimistic speech that was attended by a larger group than before was breathtaking. This second speech on October 5th, 2024, was something America needed to see, and it was probably expressed best by Elon Musk, who attended and spoke, jumping around on stage like a little boy happy to go to a baseball game with his father. There was an innocence to the wealthiest man in the world and one of the most successful acting like a young kid happy about the future. It was a sincere moment that history will never forget and Trump set it all up by returning to a place of doom with an optimism very few people in the world could ever hope to achieve. Yet that is what Trump has been offering: a way to defeat the machine of communism that is present in our current captured government and to rise above it by pushing fear aside and leading the world back to health. But in the wake of it all, there are a few things to think about that are unique and life-changing and that everyone should be aware of.
First of all, the crowd defied modern conventions. It was like the day of the assassination attempt, with bullets flying around everyone, and nobody knew where the shots were coming from or even how many shooters there were. Essentially, in the middle of a large crowd, there was a shootout because a well-placed sniper did get the shot off that killed the assassin. People in the audience were hit and killed, and there was blood everywhere. It was a significant tragedy. But the Trump supporters didn’t run from the area like a bunch of cowards. Instead, they ducked, they looked around, and they remained calm. This is a reaction that years of Hollywood productions by skinny pants losers from Santa Monica screenwriting don’t understand about real Americans. Not the latte-sipping sissies of Democrat areas, but the meat and potatoes people from the flyover states who aren’t afraid of their own shadow. People under fire weren’t cowards and did not leave Trump’s side when, at that time, they had to assume he was killed. Elon Musk was watching from afar and had the same reaction that everyone else did once Trump stood up and pumped his fist to the sky, saying fight, fight, fight with blood running down his face in defiance of the killer’s intentions. That is the American spirit, and it was at that moment, Elon Musk decided to endorse President Trump, which was something I didn’t think would ever happen. Given that Musk is a Democrat and had been trending toward Republicans over the last few years, supporting Ron DeSantis early in the process. Trump’s courage under fire and real danger inspired Musk and many others to join the effort to reelect the president, which was a story that Musk retold while on stage to a captivated audience.
But knowing what happened the first time, why would people want to come back and stand in line for more than 24 hours only to hear the same speech repeatedly? Why would people even want to risk their lives to attend an outside rally where there are people who want to kill Trump, and they might be killed themselves in the process? This was like having people return to the Kennedy assassination after it had happened and give a motivational speech about America from the spot of the killing. What would provoke people to want to do such a thing? Most people, including conservative commentators, had no idea how to answer that question. Yet the rally had people there, many more than the previous time in July, as far as the eye could see. People wanted to be there and tried to put danger on notice. They were not going to be afraid. They wanted to support Trump, be near him, and be a part of history, which was a magnificent occasion after all that has happened over the last several years. The event was live-streamed to over 5 million people on social media, but millions would see it and witness a unique historical event in the days that followed. The plans for America’s demise were failing, and people could feel it in the air. They wanted to play their part in recapturing our country from the clutches of vile globalism. It was more of a military occasion without the bullets flying toward an enemy, but the impression was the same. If global communism ruled with fear, these people defied that intention by attending and participating in that rally.
However, Trump understood that he had brought something new to his typical rally format before the rally started. He invited the noted tenor Christopher Macchio to perform before and after the speech in a display that I thought was jaw-dropping audacious. And for Trump to flex that celebrity muscle then was ominously bold. Macchio has performed for Trump before, most recently at the RNC event in Wisconsin, but again at the White House. However, for Macchio to perform at the Butler, Pennsylvania Trump rally was a touch of class that could only come from the Trump Organization as a statement. It was a statement that wasn’t needed, yet Macchio brought opera to a culture that doesn’t usually get exposed to that kind of thing. And Macchio performed several songs after the rally; once the typical YMCA song ended with Trump dancing on stage, Christopher sang “Nessun Dorma,” “How Great Thou Art,” and “Hallelujah” to a stunned crowd. I was stunned. I thought it was incredibly classy and bold. Obviously, like Musk, this very talented and rare individual and a top New York celebrity was full-throated in support of Trump. Christopher Macchio was jumping around on stage in his own way with a compelling performance that was cheerleading Americans in the ways of the Power of Positive Thinking to overcome years of massive tragedy and to restore America to health in ways that people are just now coming to understand. That was essentially what Trump was offering with this rally: not just returning to the spot to overcome the attempted fear but also overcoming it and overwhelming it by laughing at danger, even dancing on top of it. But boldly, we continue our triumph over evil the way only opera as an art form could even be conceived. Yet there it was, and now the MAGA movement had a soundtrack to march to, to take back our country from those who have been stealing it away for a long time. Now, there was music to give life to the movement captured so wonderfully by Christopher Macchio. And the world will never be the same.
Rich Hoffman
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