Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

Son & Husband of immigrants on immigrants:

“Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons,” said the former president. “We know they come from mental institutions, insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists.
“Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad, and people are coming in with disease. People are coming in with every possible thing that you could have.”

Trump, just white supremin' on a Friday.

"poisoning the blood of our country", this has to be a Stephen Miller line, going full Mein Kampf

that is what I was thinking

It's a pretty clear callout to his white nationalist supporters.

A lot got made of one of his gang of incompetent lawyers, Alina Habba, turning up in court with a gaming laptop, the "2070ti asus laptop with the blue underglow". It's probably more of a tell that it was possibly she who didn't check the jury trial box on the form. Not being sexist here, it could have been another one that fucked that up. But fair to say she doesn't project legal competence by insisting it has been a "strong week" for him.

There's a group of billboard/ambulance-chasing personal injury attorneys called Habbas that advertise here in the Bay Area.. wonder if she's a relation

Into the Great White Colon

the "nobody has ever seen anything like this before" "no one has ever heard of this" thing might be my least favorite Trump rhetorical tic

"people come up to me, people come to me and they tell me, 'Sir, sir'" is probably my least favorite

Yes, big, strong men with tears in their eyes. Does anyone believe that?

A lot got made of one of his gang of incompetent lawyers, Alina Habba,

Ali Baba?

tbf, Trump will often insert a parenthetical "can you believe it?" into these stories to emphasize just how unbelievable they are. obviously he's a man to whom unbelievable things happen as often as they are needed to prove whatever point he wishes to make.

Maybe they *are* all going to put out albums.

hello. i am paralyzed and literally cannot breathe send help… 🤣
oh my god… i haven’t touched anything… https://t.co/sgL07Dhh62 pic.twitter.com/nTGwI7PHPk

— Jim Stewartson, Anti-disinfo activist 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙 (@jimstewartson) October 6, 2023

Give it a couple years and Lauren Boebert will have more #1s than Elvis

Number one with a Boebert.

She go from getting kicked out of Beetlejuice to starring in touring company of Beetlejuice.

Based on her McCarthy vote, we do know she's very much "jump in the line" at this point

Banana fana boebert

Trump on Hannibal Lecter: You know why I like him? Because he said on television “I love Donald Trump” so I love him pic.twitter.com/1jYyXKFkjI

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 7, 2023

Good to see he can still stay on message.

Two great gourmands

Has anyone seen Silence of the Lambs?

Yeah that guy should def be president again

think he's a bigger fan of Triumph of the Will

"Hannibal Lecter, how great an actor was he?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ck-09fvlpI

I'll admit that, as a person who is opposed to every aspect of his existence, I'm occasionally overly eager to go for the 'what a fucking moron' GOTCHA! at times when the facts perhaps don't necessarily warrant a GOTCHA!, but in this instance, it really does not seem like he's capable of separating the character from the actor who plays the character. I'm genuinely unconvinced that he's aware of the difference.

remember when he thought Vince McMahon died in a car explosion because of a WWE storyline?

xp That was my thought as well.

Curious as to when & why Hopkins said he liked Trump.

No, no, Hannibal Lecter said that.

Well of course he did...

With fava beans and a nice Chianti.

seems like it was

Mads Mikkelsen said in a 2016 CBS News interview that he had no idea what to think about Donald Trump as he had never met him.

"He’s obviously not the classic politician, that’s for sure. I can definitely laugh at some of the stuff he says but I can also go, 'Oh my God, did he say that?' I think he’s a fresh wind for some people, but that’s what you’re voting for, I guess, right? It’s a big job," he said.

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/fact-check-did-hannibal-lecter-say-loves-donald-trump-anthony-hopkins-claim-debunked

"I love Mad Max's son for what he said abou me. And that other Austrian, you know, Jack Hughman."

lol, no surprise it wasn't one of the supremo luvvie melts Hopkins or Cox

The simplest explanation is that Trump forgot Anthony Hopkins' name so he substituted the name of the one role he played that everyone instantly recognizes. Chances are if he'd said "Anthony Hopkins" instead of "Hannibal Lector" fewer people in the audience would have known just who he was talking about anyway.

Surprised he didn't say Hannibal Buress

Like he knows the names of any Black people

The simplest explanation is that Trump forgot Anthony Hopkins' name

how is this the simplest explanation when it was Mikkelsen

He knows Ginni Thomas is on the Supreme Court.

OK. I'm guessing Trump has no idea that there was a Lector-based TV series or that more than one actor ever played the part, so he probably thought all along it was Hopkins who said something nice about him. After all, who has time for all these unimportant details, when the only important or interesting thing was that the guy who played Lector knows how great he (Trump) is. The other details never mattered. Also, Trump forgot Hopkins' name. It didn't matter either.

Who did Dexter endorse?

Gary Johnson

i think he knew it wasnt hopkins but wanted people to think it was

i mean if theres one thing trump understands its the relative prestige of various actors

im even willing to entertain the idea that he knows mads mikkelsens name because he no doubt really likes it when a celebrity says something nice about him even if theyre just being polite

Lecktor with an O was Cox. This is getting simpler by the minute!

another mindblowing session at the hannibal lectern

"The Presidential oath, which the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment surely knew, requires the President to swear to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution — not to 'support' the Constitution," said the filing by Trump's attorneys. "Because the framers chose to define the group of people subject to Section Three by an oath to 'support' the Constitution of the United States, and not by an oath to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution, the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment never intended for it to apply to the President."