3/ Rupar:

This is a very revealing and important response 👇 it's fine if Elon #Musk has regular discussions with Putin because Elon is Trump's "genius" and he needs to be taken care of

REPORTER: Did you know that Elon Musk was in communication was in Putin?

#TRUMP: No. Elon is a great guy. He's one of our genuses. We have to take care of our geniuses.

4/ Re: photo op...

Via #Harris spox Sharon Yang:

This makes sense because part of Trump's closing argument has been calling America a "giant garbage can"

@GottaLaff Trump... Garbage truck... Is he taking up RV travel after he loses, and this was the best fit?

6/ Via Ian Sams:

Is Donald Trump the first candidate ever to have not one but TWO Dukakis Moments?

7/ Via @emptywheel:

Note, the reason LaCivita is running all stunts all the time is he realizes #Trump is having senior moments at about 40% of his events these days.

He's like a big stuffed toy for LaCivita to play with these days. Dress him up. Put him on a prop. Call it a campaign.

Ka-ching!

8/ Via Tommy Vietor

Genius plan by LaCivita to keep the Puerto Rico joke controversy in the news for another day

9/ Via Zack Ford:

"Just because I'm sitting in this garbage truck for a photo op doesn't mean I know anything about the comments at my rally calling people garbage."

@dkbgeek @GottaLaff

Nah, it’s just that his campaign operation is in the back.