“What do you think they [protesters] want?” Harris Faulkner of Fox News asked the president. “What do you think they need, right now, from you?”
Here was Trump’s answer, verbatim:
"Protesters for different reasons. You’re protesting also because, you know, they just didn’t know. I’ve watch - I watched very closely. Why are you here? They really weren’t able to say, but they were there for a reason, perhaps.
“But a lot of them really were there because they’re following the crowd. A lot of them were there because what we witnessed was a terrible thing. What we saw was a terrible thing. And we’ve seen it over the years. We haven’t, you know, this was one horrible example, but you’ve seen other terrible examples. You know that better than anybody who would know it. And I know it. I’ve seen it, too. I’ve seen it before I was president. I’ve seen it. I think it’s a shame. I think it’s a disgrace. And it’s got to stop.”
Edit: This quote was from 2020
We need to spend more time protesting his golf course and DC…
motherfucker what?
This was from 2020 in response to the George Floyd protests in case anyone was wondering. Not to say that this isn’t relevant but with the context of the Hands Off protests it feels like it might get attributed to the wrong event. I guess it’s even more worrying that this is the kind of nonsense he was spouting 5 years ago and people still voted him in again.
I confess that in the context where I saw this I did not realize that!
Stop posting everything you see without doing some work to vet those things yourself. This spread of mis/disinformation goes both ways and the left isn’t magically immune to it.
Yep, I’m as prone to confirmation bias as anyone.
This is why I am physically unable to listen to him speak. He just meanders around his sick little brain garden, making no sense at all, but pretending his words are thee most profound thing uttered since God spoke to Moses.
Commandment 1: Tho shalt, and shalt is a pretty big word you know, it means that you should, but it’s really like you must. And I think you must, because it’s really important to do the things you know, because they are really important and you should do them.
Commandment 2: Because if you didn’t then you wouldn’t have done it, and then it didn’t get done, so you should do it, and other should do it.
Etc etc
The bigger problem is his cultist idiot followers think so too.
Trump is a brain-dead dickhead, but this post is not, in fact, about current events. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/12/trump-george-floyd-protesters-315532
Oh snap I just commented with source for this and refreshed and saw your comment. Happy someone else could be bothered to fact check this too.
Thank you, as presented to me I didn’t recognize that. Edited title and body.
There are 8 more upvoted comments to yours… I.e. the first post I saw to provide context/source for this, which is what I was looking for.
For anyone reading this, if you weren’t looking for the provenance of this quote and simply reacting to it as is, please check yourself.
To be fair, the fact that this was 5 years ago would likely frighten people even more but at least be aware of what you’re reading and reacting to!
Thank you for the rest of the picture. We have enough reasons to despise him today, without rehashing his scrambled mouth-shit from five years ago.
The pixels told me that.
It’s been going around awhile.
Just one of his usual bizarre non-answers where he has no idea what they’re talking about and thorws out some mishmash that he thinks might be applicable.
he’s like an early iteration at building an llm
LLMs would easily be a better president than Trump. Like, it’s not even close.
The way he talks works exactly like an LLM tho. He just starts out and keeps talking based on what word would go well after the previous word without any coherent thought behind the answer.
LLMs have actually moved beyond that now. That might’ve been true in the GPT 3.5 days.
Computers keep getting smarter while Trump keeps getting stupider.
Edit: Fixed the paper link, I linked the wrong one
Every time I see Trump being quoted this long, I am reminded of every single persuasive essay I wrote in high school where I didn’t do any research at all and just bullshitted my way through.
And just like he won the election, I would usually get As on those because the content wasn’t actually the thing being graded.
He cant even talk lmao
Top of the line aneurysm shit talking. How does it even still stand on its feet?
Both fascinating and not at all surprising.
How the hell is he not toppling over? What black magic fuckery is keeping him upright?
Ladies and gentlemen, President Weeble Wobble
I’m not even convinced he knows where he is half the time.
Having someone this dysfunctional partially in charge of a country is dangerous and shouldn’t be allowed.
Edit: The original post quote is apparently from a previous protest from 5 years ago, so not really about current events.
Doesn’t change my opinion or make my original comment any less relevant.
Partial credit to the millions who voted for him, millions who stayed home and the millionaire enablers who didn’t speak up and paid $1M to his inaugural committee.
I can’t stand him either, but his decline is natural, where the lack of empathy and hatred and poor judgment of the most obese nation is not.
I have had people directly tell me he isn’t mentally disabled when i have pointed out he is absolutely an incoherent rambling fool.
I heard him speak a few times, and i knew he was a complete idiot. He still got a second term. I cant comprehend this level of stupidity.
Maybe i am the dumb one?
Smart people seem stupid to many stupid people because many stupid people are too stupid know they’re stupid.
Wouldnt that apply to me in this case? Or is that your point?
Potentially, to both of us. But given Trump’s and his ardent supporters’ speech patterns and behavior, the odds are that they’re in the category of “too stupid to know they’re stupid”.
Yeah, no, trump is a proper idiot. You’re safe
I’m properly dyslexic, speech too, and even I don’t sound like that when my brainhalves crash and stutter while forming a sentence.
Syphilis does terrible things to a man’s brain.
I had a stroke reading that shit. A first grader could probably say something more coherent and on topic.
Genuinely sounds like a canned response for any protest if it were happening due to someone being killed by police or a school shooting. He might not have been told by his circle that people were even protesting him.
I’ve heard from many people that if I just took literally what he says then I won’t get his message. That I have to look at the meaning behind the exact words that he uses.
And I’ve started doing that.
And I am even more confused than before
It’s like religion
Say some vague shit without a clear meaning. Let people fill in their interpretations of it in their mind. They feel smart for “understanding”. They confuse the dopamine rush for admiration. Congratulations they are now addicted to your bullshit
