“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

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      2 days ago

      Nope.

      I’m saying if the Democratic candidate in 2025 is on par with the Republican candidate from 40 years ago, how was it not a conservative party?

      I’m saying that if the Dem candidate wants to win, they need to match what policy Dem voters want.

      What about that makes you think I like trump more?

      If I liked trump more I’d pretend all these valid reasons for why trump won didn’t exist, because I’d be desperate for Dems to keep repeating mistakes. Or since we now have the most progressive chair in my lifetime as of 2 months ago, I’d pretend that today’s DNC is in any way similar to the DNC if just a few months ago that fucked shit up so badly

      But I don’t like trump more

      So I spend some of my free time talking about how trump was able to win, and I forming people that today’s DNC is actually worth a damn and we need to rally behind their new progressive leadership

      What do you do?

      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        I’m saying that if the Dem candidate wants to win, they need to match what policy Dem voters want.

        One problem with this tactic is that Dem voters, like Repub voters, are fundamentally dumber than a bag of hammers.

        I think if anyone wants to win in today’s climate, they have to capture the media (including social media).