Trump gave them a chance to leave. They TOOK IT

[0:00] Donald Trump tried to get his audience to beg him to keep talking and it didn't work. [0:04] A bunch of the people behind him said, oh, we're going to leave now. So let me explain to you what [0:09] happened here. And this is kind of the danger of asking people whether they've heard enough. [0:13] They might have. Now, you know, the routine, the performer pretends it's time to wrap up [0:19] and the audience is supposed to go. No, no, we want more. Please speak to us for five hours like [0:25] Castro used to. That's what we want. And then the performer continues, but they can pretend they're [0:31] only doing it because they insisted I was going to leave, but they insisted. So Trump loves that stuff. [0:36] And Trump loves to hear from the audience how they just want him to go on and on for hours. [0:43] Watch what happens here and pay attention to the people behind Donald Trump. Trump kind of goes, [0:47] that's it. I'm leaving. And people behind him actually start gathering their things and heading [0:52] out, even though it's just a joke. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I'm leaving. [0:57] Vote for that. No, it's a hell of a way to end. No, I could. I could end it. But so the rest is [1:10] the rest is just. But but no, just look, the people started to leave. Even Trump recognizes people [1:18] started to leave after he jokingly wrapped up the rally very quickly, as opposed to speaking for two [1:24] hours. There were a lot of people in the room completely. Listen, they might have been there for [1:29] hours that some of the Trump's late hours late to these things. People get their hours early. [1:33] Some of the people seemed completely comfortable. Hey, listen, we check the box. We came to the Trump [1:37] rally. It's time to go. It's hilarious to fish for people to go. No, please give us two more hours. [1:45] And people go. Great. Let's go. Let's let's get to the car and beat the traffic. Now, I'm not going to [1:51] turn a few people leaving early or wanting to leave early into an election forecast. We don't know why [1:57] each of those people. Maybe somebody had to go to the bathroom all of a sudden. Maybe Trump was [2:01] hours late and it was like, I only plan to be here five hours. I can't stay for seven. I got to get [2:05] home. There are many reasons people could leave an event and they don't involve. I'm voting for [2:11] Democrats. That that all can be the case. Trump supporter could be like, hey, I heard enough and [2:15] I'm going to go home, but I'm still going to vote Republican. But what makes the moment so interesting [2:21] is that even people who like a politician have a limit and they have lives and they have other things going on. [2:27] And the guy on stage might find every minute of his performance fascinating, you know, the glitching [2:32] and the being swollen and the lying and the double jerk dance while the so-called gay anthem plays. [2:39] Trump might find every minute riveting. How could the audience not like it? I'm so interesting. [2:44] But the people in the audience might be thinking about is that parking garage going to be a nightmare? [2:49] Did I leave the oven on? I got to get home to my kid. I can't be here all day. And Trump has made it [2:56] unusually difficult for himself to just accept that there is a normal human reality. He spends so much [3:04] time treating crowd size and crowd enthusiasm as a measure of his greatness, that when people do [3:11] start leaving, it is a significant event. It is a damaging event to Trump's ego. And if you talk [3:19] constantly about how no one has ever seen anything like my crowds and nobody has ever loved speeches [3:25] more than they love my speeches and people sit there riveted for hours, people are going to pay [3:30] attention to the crowd's behavior. And if you want them to be evidence that everyone loves you, [3:36] you can't object when we notice that people took the opportunity to head for the exits and even Trump [3:41] noticed it himself. Now, the other part is the rallies have a job to do. Presumably like if we [3:47] put aside for a moment that these rallies are basically ego stroking opportunities for Donald [3:53] Trump, like that's what they really are. But let's at least theorize that there is a point to these [3:57] rallies that is bigger than Trump's ego. Presumably you want people to leave more motivated to vote for [4:04] the candidates you're supporting than they were when they came in. And you want them to remember, [4:07] why did I show up? There was a policy that was mentioned. There was a contrast with the opponent [4:12] or whatever. How much of that requires the audience to reassure Donald Trump that it wants another 20 [4:19] minutes? At some point it becomes about keeping the speaker happy. And this is why we often talk about [4:26] they clap like train seals and they cheer the most demented lines and they boo when Trump says it's time [4:32] to boo. And they go, no, don't leave. The crowd didn't really do its part. You could see that there [4:39] were people who were actually leaving and Trump noticed them. The interaction Trump tried to frame [4:46] depended on the audience cooperating and going, no, we more speech, more. What would have made it less [4:53] awkward would have been finish the speech in a normal amount of time. Don't glitch. Don't talk about [4:59] cognitive tests. Don't tell people everything's awesome. And if you don't see that, there's a [5:03] problem with you. Thank everybody for coming. Remind them to vote and let them leave feeling [5:09] good about the evening. That's an option available to every speaker. But you've got to be willing to [5:14] end without another round of reassurance that everybody wishes you would stay. And sometimes the [5:19] best thing for the audience is the hardest thing for the ego. That's why this clip is going viral. [5:24] You don't need, you know, a political science degree or a Yale law degree like J.D. Vance. [5:30] You don't need that to figure out that when you ask for a compliment and then you don't get it, [5:37] things don't go particularly well. So this doesn't tell us who's going to win on Tuesday. It doesn't [5:41] tell us any of that. It does tell us if you offer the audience an exit and you're counting on them to [5:47] refuse it, there is a risk there. And sometimes that Trump rallies, people are ready to go home. [5:53] You don't want to make them say it twice. I'm ready to leave. And it completely backfired on [5:59] Donald Trump. Could it say something about the results we're expecting Tuesday? Yeah, maybe. [6:03] But at the end of the day, egomaniacs want their ego stroked. 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