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Trump praises fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter during rally speech (www.theguardian.com)

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Ex-president calls Hopkins’ cannibalistic Lecter ‘late, great’ while condemning ‘people who are being released into our country’

Donald Trump on Saturday praised fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter “as a wonderful man” before segueing into comments disparaging people who have immigrated into the US without permission.

The former president’s remarks to political rally-goers in Wildwood, New Jersey, as he challenges Joe Biden’s re-election in November were a not-so-subtle rhetorical bridge exalting Anthony Hopkins’ cannibalistic Lecter in Silence of the Lambs as “late [and] great” while simultaneously condemning “people who are being released into our country that we don’t want”.

Trump delivered his address to an estimated crowd of about 80,000 supporters under the shadow of the Great White roller coaster in a 1950s-kitsch seaside resort 90 miles (144.8km) south of Philadelphia.

The occasion served for Trump to renew his stated admiration for Lecter, as he’s done before, after the actor Mads Mikkleson – who previously portrayed Lecter in a television series – once described Trump as “a fresh wind for some people”.

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[-] MxM111@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

But whom Lector is going to eat then, if there are no illegal immigrants? Did you think of that Mr. Trump?

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

When do we find out that Ronald McDonald has a worm in his brain?

Also: was BrainDead cancelled because it was just a little too real?

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Again? This isn't the first time he's brought him up and praised him.

[-] JohnOliver@feddit.dk 1 points 6 months ago

Its like the emperors new clothes. People are starting to notice!

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Donald Trump on Saturday praised fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter “as a wonderful man” before segueing into comments disparaging people who have immigrated into the US without permission.

Among other comments, Trump on Sunday also repeated exaggerations about having “been indicted more than the great Alphonse Capone”, the violent Prohibition-era Chicago mob boss.

Trump since the spring of 2023 has grappled with four indictments attributing more than 80 criminal charges to him for attempts to subvert the outcome of the 2020 election he lost to Biden, retaining classified materials after his presidency and hush-money payments to an adult film actor which prosecutors maintain were illicitly covered up.

Sherrill’s fellow New Jersey Democrat Andy Kim, a congressman running for the US Senate, said that generalized apathy toward government helped Trump’s support.

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