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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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[-] Erasmus@lemmy.world 44 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago

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 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

/s

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

[terrible and completely off topic]

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

[-] Bacano@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Let's not sugar coat it. I'm no trump fan but Biden was about as lucid as a piece of driftwood.

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Idk who's downvoting you. It's not anyone who saw the debate, that's for sure.

[-] Bacano@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Every online space is being flooded with state run propaganda.

I'm not taking it personally lol but thank you for chiming in, it helps.

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[-] awesomesauce309@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

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 4 points 2 weeks ago

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 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] joenforcer@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I don't disagree, but ya gotta keep up with the times. When the GOP starts making up unreasonable shit and a big chunk of people believe it, you need to adapt.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If you think what was wrong with Joe Biden was a stutter...

You're ignorant of his entire political career, and all the people who have came clean about hiding his mental decline while in office.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/joe-bidens-final-days

He got rid of the stutter long before entering politics. Literally 60 years ago

A stutter doesn't show back up in your late 70s when you havent had it since you were a teenager.

The reason trump and Biden are similar in how they speak, is they're both geriatric and should be in old folks homes already.

Stop yelling that your grandpa forgets to put pants on less than Timmy's grandpa like it's some kind of accomplishment

[-] Bacano@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry you're out here defending against bots or something. How anyone could forget the display of cognitive decline during the debate is beyond me. One of many.

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[-] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Electricblush@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks 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

[-] The_Caretaker@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Areldyb@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago

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 2 weeks ago

The pixels told me that.

It’s been going around awhile.

[-] calamitycastle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks 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 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] ratel@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago

Syphilis does terrible things to a man's brain.

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

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 9 points 2 weeks 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 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] NeilBru@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week 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".

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[-] IEatDaGoat@lemm.ee 19 points 2 weeks ago

I had a stroke reading that shit. A first grader could probably say something more coherent and on topic.

[-] ratel@mander.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago

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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[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

His statement was vegan because it's a word salad

[-] Bgugi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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

[-] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

He cant even talk lmao

[-] professionalbalkan@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

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 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] TronBronson@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

We need to spend more time protesting his golf course and DC...

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