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"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

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[–] IEatDaGoat@lemm.ee 7 points 1 hour 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 21 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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 5 points 2 hours 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.

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldnt that apply to me in this case? Or is that your point?

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours 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".

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

His statement was vegan because it's a word salad

[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 2 points 19 minutes ago

What are you talking about? Bullshit is an animal byproduct.

[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 29 points 12 hours ago

Syphilis does terrible things to a man's brain.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 82 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

The bigger problem is his cultist idiot followers think so too.

[–] Electricblush@lemmy.world 25 points 21 hours 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

[–] Areldyb@lemmy.world 162 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

The pixels told me that.

It’s been going around awhile.

[–] calamitycastle@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day 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!

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 day ago

Thank you, as presented to me I didn't recognize that. Edited title and body.

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[–] Erasmus@lemmy.world 192 points 1 day ago (29 children)

And Biden got shit for an occasional stutter, this guy blows my mind. 🙄

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 76 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because the Right has no interest in anything except winning, so htey ignore any problems with their Leader.

Trump just blew off a chance to honor four US soldiers who died in Lithuania; they are still screaming about Obama's 'latte' salute.'

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

How can the LEFT have any reasonable opinions if they cant even write PRONOUNS correctly

/s

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

[terrible and completely off topic]

My GF has an eating disorder. Her pronouns are her/she.

[–] awesomesauce309@midwest.social 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They aren’t smart enough to judge the content of the words, they can only tell trump enunciated his hot air more.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (6 children)

This was my response to the Trump-Biden debate:

Imagine one guy who's been doing the same job, working hard, for decades, and you can tell he should retire, but his work ethic is just beyond anything and he absolutely will not, even though clearly a couple of teeth on his gears have gone stripped. And then there's this only slightly younger asshole who's never worked a day in his life, who knows fuck all from fuck nothing, who's a racist and a rapist, who's declared bankruptcy and been convicted of felonies, but he's got enough energy to lean back and yell "That other guy is an asshole! His job isn't that hard! I could do that!" and even though you and everyone with three functioning brain cells knows that the second guy is full of shit, he's got just a tiny bit left in the tank that he could use to make life a living hell for all of us.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you lmao. I always watch the president. Been doing it since before its cool.

Biden delivered an amazing speech one moring at 3AM to our NATO allies, it must have been 2023ish. I could not believe an 81 year old man had flown across the water to give a unifying speech. He even made a gaff! But it was well received and it was a presidential action.

Shame on him for being tired past 10pm at night, unable to debate a madman who's unable to stop lying. If only he spent 4 years relaxing, playing golf he may had been more energetic, the one hour of one night america decided to pay attention and judge a man by his words an actions.

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[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, biden was trash. Just at a much weaker concentration.

[–] joenforcer@midwest.social 2 points 11 hours ago

Biden wasn't trash. He was the boring unexciting politics of getting shit done without fanfare. You know, like politics should be.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

It's the difference between eating an apple seed and eating a barrel of cyanide capsules.

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago

Right, completely unintelligible

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[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 18 points 23 hours ago

He cant even talk lmao

[–] ratel@mander.xyz 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] professionalbalkan@lemm.ee 56 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Top of the line aneurysm shit talking. How does it even still stand on its feet?

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

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.

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 day ago (5 children)

he's like an early iteration at building an llm

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[–] brot@feddit.org 24 points 1 day ago (6 children)

There are kind of credible rumors that he has dementia. Answers like that really make me believe those rumors - it is kind of unimaginable that the president of the United State seems to be unaware of mass protests against him everywhere in the country

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Personally I think it's been glaringly obvious since sometime during his first term that he's not all there, and every time there is discussion about "whether" he has cognitive issues I am stunned that the discussion isn't instead "he has cognitive issues, what do we do about it?"

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[–] peto@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remember when we were all laughing at George W Bush and the dumb shit he said? At least the fuck was concise rather than this embarrassment going on about how he used to tie an onion to his belt to scare off Mexicans or whatever he said.

[–] Haus@kbin.earth 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I remember when we laughed at Dan Quayle misspelling 'potato'.

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Aneurism presidenting

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 day ago

Many words were used, yet nothing was said.

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