"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
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.
He doesn't at all seem to know what the protests are supposedly about. "A lot of them were there because what we witnessed was a terrible thing", what do you think "we" witnessed Trump? I see a few options here.
No matter, this piece of shit is destroying the world order, he's destroying the world economy, and he's destroying the lives of the american people.
Unfortunately he is the Fox News president, he always has been. The feedback loop of fox news to trump ---> trump to Fox news information pipeline is like a small circle that takes 5 minutes to get through.
Bad idea pops up on Fox, Trump supports it. Bad idea pops up in trump brain, Fox supports it. Its hard to say whats chicken and egg at this point, but its obvious trump will not be seeing images of the protests this weekend in context to them being against him and his policies and henchmen.
Right now there is someone explaining to trump that these are his supporters flooding streets across the country.
You can read his Xhitter posts for canned responses from staff. They're trying to write in his style, but don't come across as nearly incoherent.