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Originally Posted by trobesmom
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I am no longer surprised by any of what the nut-in-chief says or tweets. That does not mean that my revulsion and disgust regarding this pitiful president stays the same. Along with most Americans, who are witness to the daily ineptness and corruption and moral ugliness of Donald Trump, my loathing mounts.
The most execrable, openly racist, vile person, to hold the office of POTUS, revels in violence. Donald Trump repeatedly has shown us who he is.
“When you guys put somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over?” (mimicking the motion of police shielding a suspect’s head to keep it from bumping against the squad car.) “Like, don’t hit their head and they’ve just killed somebody — don’t hit their head,”. “I said, you can take the hand away, okay?” July 28, 2017 Donald Trump speaking to an auditorium full of law enforcement officers.
At a roundtable of policing and racism, this week in Dallas, Texas, Trump described the use of tear gas and other force against civil rights protesters as a “beautiful scene.” Regarding the National Guard’s moves against the crowd, Trump excitedly said it was, “like a knife cutting butter.”
A few weeks ago The Donald's tweets were flagged for glorifying violence. He then doubled down and had the White House retweet them.
Then we have a week-end of tweets from the coward hiding in his bunker as he ramped up violence with ugly divisive words.
During the pandemic closings Trump tweeted multiple times to Virginians telling them their second amendment rights were under siege and they should "LIBERATE" themselves from their Democratic Governor.
In 2019 Trump 2019, Trump asked aides whether the U.S. could shoot migrants below the waist to slow them down.
At another photo-op with police officials in 2018 Trump, referring to suspects in custody, " "Please don't be too nice".
Often calling the press the "enemy of the people," Trump has taken aim at journalists several times from the campaign trail to the Oval Office.
On July 2, 2017, Trump shared a doctored video, from a 2007 WWE skit in which he is seen taking down WWE owner Vince McMahon. In the version Trump shared, McMahon's face is blocked by the CNN logo.
Combine this with the screaming vitriol that he spews from the stage toward journalists and media organizations and the false labeling of them as the USA's enemy in an effort to bully them and we can then understand why journalists need personal protection when they cover his events.
Trump praised Rep. Greg Gianforte, who body slammed a reporter back when he was running for his congressional seat in 2017.
"Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my type!" Trump said at a campaign rally as the audience wildly cheered.
On the day of the Iowa caucuses in 2016, Trump told audience members he would pay their legal fees if they engaged in violence against protesters. "If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, OK? Just knock the hell out of them....I promise you I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise,"
"He's walking out with big high-fives, smiling, laughing," Trump said. "I'd like to punch him in the face, I'll tell you." Feb 2016 at another rally addressing the removal of a sign holding protester.
At another rally he shouted from the stage at a protester: "Get him out," "Try not to hurt him. If you do, I'll defend you in court. Don't worry about it."
"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters,"
Trump gets people to scream and hate and he incites violence. He gets people angry and riled up and makes them afraid and then points out who they are supposed to fear. He tells them who is responsible for their anger and personal unhappiness and their lot in life. Hate and violence follows. I am from Pittsburgh Pa. I know what Donald Trump's words and hate and violence cause.
The President's words matter. He's not an average person. He's the President, and with the presidency comes an obligation to set a moral standard for this country and to unite people. Donald Trump does the opposite. Donald Trump knows a chokehold is neither innocent or perfect, as well as he and his campaign fully understand his non-stop words and tweets are hardly innocent or perfect. Trump intentionally and cruelly desires violence against the United States citizens who he calls, "not my voters."
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."... Maya Angelou
IMO most people know who Trump is, despite his desperate continuation to showcase it. We know to whom he is selling himself. Just how many are still in the market for an autocratic, violent, nut remains to be seen.
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