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Yeah there's been references(or stuff that could be interpreted as such) but I don't think there's ever been anything this explicit from trump himself? correct me if I'm wrong
Closest I can think of is when asked about Qanon in an interview he said some like 'I don't know much about it, but apparently they like me'
He's done this a lot actually, mostly by way of retweeting. He's reposted images with giant Qs on his face, or stuff that says "where we go one" etc. He always feigns ignorance, if he's even the one doing it. But it's happened dozens of times.
There was also a time where Don Jr. posted something on Instagram with a giant flaming Q on it, people asked about it, then he re-uploaded it with the Q photoshopped out.
Also there's Michael Flynn, who was Trump's national security advisor for about a month. He's gone full into the Q world and roleplays that he's part of the storm or whatever. Furthermore I should say broad Qanon stuff is largely dead. It's just been absorbed by mainstream Republicans so there's no need for the spy craft stuff anymore
Probably hard to find, but if you could link this one I'd appreciate it
Agreed, and even among the conspiracists there's not many who are exclusively Q-drop followers, I think Q+ as been adopted as a term to describe the more general 'Q-universe' and not strictly the Q drops
A podcast(it was either trueanon or QAA iircc) had a good exploration lately of Q just becoming the standard right-wing platform recently
Here's an AP article about it but there's a ton of news articles about him retweeting Qanon stuff because journalists would hop on it every time. Most of it is on truth social so I don't really wanna link that stuff directly and honestly I wouldn't want you reading through years of Trump's truth social because I value your sanity and time.
It's very bizarre that Qanon got off the ground in the first place since while it started on 4chan it instead propagated through Facebook by what we're basically scryers interpreting the cryptic messages for completely gullible goofballs. It caught on with people who have no idea what 4chan is nor have they ever read a Q drop as a primary source. Like my own uncle was deep into Qanon and yet he hadn't heard of half the lore when I talked to him about it. He thought it was a religious organization since that was the particular angle he was getting from his Facebook group. He would tell me Q was a secret Christian in the government who was conspiring with Trump to implement theocratic law, but in a good way, and that every other politician has been a secret Satanist performing actual witchcraft and hexes.
And yet if my uncle had spoken about this to another Qanon dipshit from the same time he might have started an argument over if it's Satanists or time travel or aliens or just mundane government conspiracy stuff. And I think now they've just coalesced around whatever they think woke and DEI are.