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Donald Trump believes he's an 'unstoppable tank' a body language expert has claimed, despite being barred from running for President in a shock ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court.
A state's highest court declared the former President to be ineligible to run for the White House under the US Constitution’s insurrection clause and removed him from the state’s presidential primary ballot. It sets up a showdown in the nation’s highest court to decide whether the front-runner for the GOP nomination can remain in the race.
This comes as the controversial politician is mired in a latest scandal and is being accused of using language out of 1930s Germany.
Speaking at a rally in Iowa in the wake of the ruling Trump defended his comments about migrants crossing the southern border “poisoning the blood” of America, and he reinforced the message while denying any similarities to fascist writings others had noted.
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Trump faces being barred from standing by the ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court (Getty Images)“I never read ‘Mein Kampf,’” Trump said at a campaign rally in Waterloo, Iowa, referencing Adolf Hitler’s fascist manifesto. Immigrants in the U.S. illegally, Trump said Tuesday, are “destroying the blood of our country, they’re destroying the fabric of our country.”
But his body language suggests he is still confident as ever about his chances to be President again. Body language expert Judi James told The Mirror: "With the Colorado ballot shocker, Trump stepped out on stage using an initial gesture of indecision to hint he might have been feeling wounded. He flicked at the buttons of his jacket as though uncertain whether to close it or let it hang open. The audience were already screaming as though he were a rock star and this subtle but powerful gesture gave them their cue to build him up with their support.
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Trump applauds himself at the end of a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa (AFP via Getty Images)"Standing to attention before them, Trump began with an asymmetric smile of grateful humility before his ritual of sucking breath in through his clenched teeth suggested he was gaining strength from their cheers. Like a reviving vampire filling up on blood he mimed several ‘thank yous’ before suddenly bursting into a beaming, rounded cheeked smile displaying upper and lower teeth to signal this ongoing support had done its trick, Presidential Trump was back in the room. It created a sense of new momentum and momentum can be vital during an election campaign. "
She added: From then on he was like an unstoppable tank. No signs of self-pity now, just an impression given that he is rolling relentlessly up to the gates of the White House."
In the speech to more than 1,000 supporters from a podium flanked by trees in red MAGA hats, Trump responded to mounting criticism about his anti-immigrant “blood” purity rhetoric over the weekend. Several politicians and extremism experts have noted his language echoed writings from Hitler about the “purity” of Aryan blood, which underpinned Nazi Germany’s systematic murder of millions of Jews and other “undesirables” before and during World War II.
Ms James explained: "Trump’s rally techniques are now so psychologically cute it hurts. At a point where he was previously beginning to show hints of inner exhaustion they went and barred him from running in Colorado and immediately reactivated him to this point of body language brilliance.
Trump dances during the event (AFP via Getty Images)"Rob people of anything, even something they barely wanted, and you trigger the response of fighting to get it back. Create deliberate scarcity and people will come out to queue. By putting Trump on the political ‘endangered species’ list in Colorado they have enabled him to produce this kind of performance to this level of enthusiasm, with his crude but effective verbal and non-verbal trickery.
“I will not guarantee it,” Trump said of winning Iowa next month, “but I pretty much guarantee it.”
Describing his performance, Ms James said: "It was Trump’s body language that cast the real spell though and this might be more deliberately crafted than it seems as at one point he mentioned he is ‘watching his body language’ i.e. Biden’s and that he’s ‘getting it all wrong’."
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