"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
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
The pixels told me that.
It’s been going around awhile.
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, as presented to me I didn't recognize that. Edited title and body.
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.
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.