Former President Trump held a rally in Florida on Saturday — where a plane showed up displaying a short, to-the-point message: “Loser-Palooza.” The rally could certainly be described as a “Loser-Palooza” — Trump lost the presidential election (by a lot), and shortly afterwards, Republicans lost control of the Senate, allowing for considerably easier confirmations for Biden nominees and the passage of a monumental COVID-19 relief plan earlier this year. Yet, Trump is still lording over the Republican Party, and most Republican leaders seem eager to stick by his now criminal charge-associated brand.
The plane that stopped by Trump’s Florida rally over the weekend was the work of a progressive advocacy group called MeidasTouch. The organization shared footage from inside the plane as it completed its flyovers and from on the ground as it moved through the area. See below:
Inside the cockpit. Stand by for video from the ground. #LoserPalooza pic.twitter.com/Yu5uYfVpXM
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) July 4, 2021
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s our #LoserPalooza plane flying over the Trump loser fest pic.twitter.com/H5RggpgT4q
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) July 4, 2021
Notably, this instance is not the first time that a plane has been involved in an anti-Trumpism political display in Florida. Not too long ago, a plane displayed a message reading “Tick Tock Matt Gaetz” outside a federal courthouse in Orlando, Florida, as an associate of the Congressman went through the motions of pleading guilty to criminal charges including child sex trafficking. Gaetz has been under investigation by federal authorities in connection to the same set of circumstances. Late last year, agents apparently even seized the Congressman’s phone.
At one point, Gaetz claimed that the allegations against him were somehow part of an extortion scheme targeting his family, but — unsurprisingly — that didn’t exactly pan out, at least how the Congressman might have hoped. There was apparently a proposal made to Gaetz’s father, Don, for millions of dollars in support of an effort to bring kidnapped ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson home in exchange for assistance with Matt’s legal troubles, but former Air Force intelligence officer Bob Kent — who was one of those behind the alleged extortion plot — told CNN that “when I left, the last thing I told Don Gaetz was that you’ll never hear from me again. I’m not a threat to you or your son. I won’t talk to the press. I’m not going to say a bad word about him.” That certainly doesn’t sound like extortion.
