“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

  • IEatDaGoat@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    I had a stroke reading that shit. A first grader could probably say something more coherent and on topic.

  • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    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?

    • Shou@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      I’m properly dyslexic, speech too, and even I don’t sound like that when my brainhalves crash and stutter while forming a sentence.

    • NeilBrü@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Smart people seem stupid to many stupid people because many stupid people are too stupid know they’re stupid.

        • NeilBrü@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          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”.

  • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 days ago

    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.

    • Electricblush@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      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

  • GuyFawkes@midwest.socialEnglish
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    5 days ago

    This out of touch response shows EXACTLY why these types of protests aren’t enough. Didn’t even get the point across to those in power that need to change.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
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    5 days ago

    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.

  • ratel@mander.xyz
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    5 days ago

    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.

      • mriormro@lemm.ee
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        5 days ago

        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.

    • ratel@mander.xyz
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      5 days ago

      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.

    • misery mansion@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      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!

    • WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      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.

  • huppakee@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Anyone has a link to audio/video? Can’t find it and don’t want to scan recent fox news footage.