“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
I had a stroke reading that shit. A first grader could probably say something more coherent and on topic.
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?
I’m properly dyslexic, speech too, and even I don’t sound like that when my brainhalves crash and stutter while forming a sentence.
Smart people seem stupid to many stupid people because many stupid people are too stupid know they’re stupid.
Wouldnt that apply to me in this case? Or is that your point?
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”.
Syphilis does terrible things to a man’s brain.
His statement was vegan because it’s a word salad
What are you talking about? Bullshit is an animal byproduct.
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.
The bigger problem is his cultist idiot followers think so too.
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
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
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!
The pixels told me that.
It’s been going around awhile.
Thank you, as presented to me I didn’t recognize that. Edited title and body.
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.
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.
And Biden got shit for an occasional stutter, this guy blows my mind. 🙄
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.’
How can the LEFT have any reasonable opinions if they cant even write PRONOUNS correctly
/s
[terrible and completely off topic]
My GF has an eating disorder. Her pronouns are her/she.
They aren’t smart enough to judge the content of the words, they can only tell trump enunciated his hot air more.
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.
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.
Imagine one guy who’s been doing the same job, working hard, for decades
Yeah!
Just think how bad off we’d be if Biden hadn’t:
Fought against school busing after segregation ended…
Fought against healthcare reform…
Had all those “fun” dinners with strum thurmond…
Wrote large parts of the 92 crime bill…
Spent decades de-regulating finance for corporations…
Wait, what we doing again?
/s
His “hard work” was all against what the modern Dem party wants. And when he disagreed with the party as president, he just didn’t try to do what the party wanted.
Stop acting like everyone forgot modern political history just because most did.
Biden was a net negative to the country even before he became president.
Yeah!
The world isn’t black and white!
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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?
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).
Right, completely unintelligible
I mean, biden was trash. Just at a much weaker concentration.
Biden wasn’t trash. He was the boring unexciting politics of getting shit done without fanfare. You know, like politics should be.
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.
It’s the difference between eating an apple seed and eating a barrel of cyanide capsules.
Did you not see the debate between these 2 old fucks? Biden had more than just a stutter.
Did you see any other speech by biden in the 4 years prior to that, or did you base the your decision on a few Tick tock clips that were probably AI generated? Did you even watch the full debate or did you just hit it for some confirmation bias?
What are your feelings on trump tho? Why does biden live in your head rent free? He’s gone, say something about the current leadership?
Sounds to me like you didn’t see the debate. He dropped out because of the debate performance. And yes, with speeches he was better because he tends to actually read what’s there instead of Trump’s going off script and rambling about Arnold Palmer’s dick or whatever.
And Trump is a fascist, I’m pretty sure you can go through my posts and find posts where I say that.
Except Bidens performance in that infamous debate was horrendous. Anyone who’s had loved ones with dementia can see it. To try to pretend otherwise is silly. Biden has clearly declined significantly since 2020.
You can also see it similarly with Trump with a much slower rate of progress, where in 2016 he was far more coherent in his word salads and seemed to actually maintain a steady train of thought while he spoke, now he just babbles and doesn’t seem to have any clear idea of what he’s said nor what he’s going to say
Yes, he was having a bad night and trump was coked up
At least one of them had the decency to step down.
And by the way and by the way and by the way and by the way and by the way and by the way
Let’s not sugar coat it. I’m no trump fan but Biden was about as lucid as a piece of driftwood.
Idk who’s downvoting you. It’s not anyone who saw the debate, that’s for sure.
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.
The people who just lost 20% of their retirement accounts in 2 week.
the people who are afraid they will be drafted to a war against Canada or Europe.
The people who are worried they are losing their government benefits they survive on.
The people who have to cut back on groceries 30%
The people who lost their jobs, and the many more who will.
The people affected by shutting down medical research, and rural hospitals.
The people who are at risk of being deported for no reason other than a whim.
The people who are getting mass starved across with world with no US AID
The victims of Ebola, AIDS, birdflu, measles, and all the other infectious diseases
I mean i could go on but you think about those people for a second. Then think about if you live far enough from a large population center to surrvive civil unrest as supply chains break down and people starve?
Idk why those people would be mad at someone for noticing and pointing out why Biden lost the debate.
Would it help them if I lied and said he wasn’t clearly sunsetting on live tv? How?
“Biden was about as lucid as a piece of driftwood” is an accurate statement. It’s why he dropped out. It’s why trump won. Pointing it out 5 months after the election isn’t going to change that.
I don’t really understand where you’re coming from
Because we’re going to enter into the great depression 2 on monday and your still talking about biden. So good luck in your local hunger games and see you at the top. May the odds forever be in your favor.
Maybe you should direct this at the comment thread OP, who is the one that brought up Biden to begin with?
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So you’re suggesting we forget the former president existed? I still don’t understand. How many years back do historical events need to be before you approve of discussing them on the internet?
We have a president currently who probably suffers from some form of dementia. And your solution is “we should pretend we didn’t just watch the federal government attempt to hide that the previous president was clearly suffering from dementia”
So, I reiterate, I don’t understand where you’re coming from. But I’m starting to suspect you’re just blue maga.
I’m happy to go through 30 speeches of Joe Biden with you and give him a full psychiatric evaluation with you. We can drink whiskey and discuss. My friend I would love nothing more than to do that with you.
Everything I love is fucking dying I cannot do this with you right now.
COMMUNIST REVOLUTION WEN?
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
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.
It sucks because it’s actual disinformation meant to sanitize the many valid reasons he failed, and it happens every time a neoliberal loses.
We can’t afford to keep ignoring reality.
I wish you guys were half as tough and ready for this as you thought you were but man, commies are more disappointing than anyone right now.
I figured you guys would at least have some kind of organized resistance in the real world, but nah just on the internet talking about joe biden and the neoliberals while trump deports your friends for their first amendment rights being exercised 😂
Impotent.
And what are you doing to ensure dems don’t fuck it up again if we have an election in 2028?
When are you commies going to do your revolution? I saw more retirees than commies at the protest?
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
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
it’s like stupidity
It’s like the Bible, I think.
The Bible is far more coherent, even if it’s mostly fiction.
Idk jesus was pretty based, he fucked up merchants, talked shit to power, if you remove the whole son of God thing, he makes for an interesting first century character. Book was iiiight (6/10)
My comment is not targeted at you, but that sentiment.
That’s such an asinine take. They’re clearly just providing cover for nonsense from Trump.
Definitely one of those “if you believe it hard enough, it’ll be true” things for them.
On the one hand, it might do them good to have their bubbles burst as Trump continues to degrade. It could get them to the place where they realize they were lied to by a fraudster. On the other, it’s bad for all of us that he’s so out of it and suggestible while being surrounded by factions representing corporate takeover of the U.S., Christian Fascism, and those who are merely seeking uni-party control under Republicans.
Top of the line aneurysm shit talking. How does it even still stand on its feet?
How the hell is he not toppling over? What black magic fuckery is keeping him upright?
He wears lifts so he’s taller than Obama. That’s why he stands like a centaur that’s had an assectomy.
He’s been doing it for so long that it’s like taking away a woman’s high heels if she wears them daily for years. He just wouldn’t know how to stand anymore.
Nah fuck that. He sold his spine to the devil and he only stays upright by black magic or The Power of Satan. That’s officially my headcanon.
Would explain why he’s spineless as well as his weird stance.
Ladies and gentlemen, President Weeble Wobble
Both fascinating and not at all surprising.
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.
I confess that in the context where I saw this I did not realize that!
Stop posting everything you see without doing some work to vet those things yourself. This spread of mis/disinformation goes both ways and the left isn’t magically immune to it.
Yep, I’m as prone to confirmation bias as anyone.
He cant even talk lmao
I’m not even convinced he knows where he is half the time.
Having someone this dysfunctional partially in charge of a country is dangerous and shouldn’t be allowed.
Edit: The original post quote is apparently from a previous protest from 5 years ago, so not really about current events.
Doesn’t change my opinion or make my original comment any less relevant.
Partial credit to the millions who voted for him, millions who stayed home and the millionaire enablers who didn’t speak up and paid $1M to his inaugural committee.
I can’t stand him either, but his decline is natural, where the lack of empathy and hatred and poor judgment of the most obese nation is not.
Just one of his usual bizarre non-answers where he has no idea what they’re talking about and thorws out some mishmash that he thinks might be applicable.
he’s like an early iteration at building an llm
LLMs would easily be a better president than Trump. Like, it’s not even close.
The way he talks works exactly like an LLM tho. He just starts out and keeps talking based on what word would go well after the previous word without any coherent thought behind the answer.
LLMs have actually moved beyond that now. That might’ve been true in the GPT 3.5 days.
Computers keep getting smarter while Trump keeps getting stupider.
Edit: Fixed the paper link, I linked the wrong one
Yea, i’d highly recommend talking to Grok 3. I had an amazing conversation with it about its favorite philospher and just philosphy in general. They are pretty smart and articulate these days. I wonder how many of these internet people are really just a grok iteration.
I enjoy talking to it way more than the average Redditor.
I mean they are using LLM to draft executive orders, and used it to create their tariff plan. This is the first AI president. LLMs can only do so much when the prompter is a moron.
Pretty typical conman tactic. And as much as I hate saying anything positive about him, he’s really good at it. You can’t argue with results.
There are kind of credible rumors that he has dementia. Answers like that really make me believe those rumors - it is kind of unimaginable that the president of the United State seems to be unaware of mass protests against him everywhere in the country
Personally I think it’s been glaringly obvious since sometime during his first term that he’s not all there, and every time there is discussion about “whether” he has cognitive issues I am stunned that the discussion isn’t instead “he has cognitive issues, what do we do about it?”
Are they any recent examples of his word salad?
he’s taken several cognitive tests. one was DURING his presidency. It gave us person woman man camera tv. He was boasting that his handlers were so worried about it that they just HAD to take him to get tested.
I’ve never seen that video until today. I clicked on it waiting for the inevitable “the doctors were blown away, they’d never seen anyone score that good, my mental acuity is unprecedented it’s historys best mental acuity” and sure enough within 30 seconds lol
He talked like this throughout his first term too so I don’t give it much weight
Let’s be honest here: He was not normal in his first term, spoke weird even on the campaign trail and what he did as president was not really competent, either. And if you look at old footage from 2015 or 2016, yes, it has gotten worse.
He’s been talking bullshit his whole life. He’s basically like every guy that’s tried to sell you a timeshare. He’s probably declining, but you can find videos from 20, 30 years ago where he doesn’t sound much better. He’s also very incurious, so if it wasn’t on Fox News he probably didn’t even know it was happening.
Remember when we were all laughing at George W Bush and the dumb shit he said? At least the fuck was concise rather than this embarrassment going on about how he used to tie an onion to his belt to scare off Mexicans or whatever he said.
I remember when we laughed at Dan Quayle misspelling ‘potato’.
I remember when a guy just wanted to have his dick sucked by a cute intern and almost was impeached.
Woah woah. That was because he lied about it and it was a breach of family values.
Nothing like our current president who only tells the truth and is all about family values. And holds the Bible right side up.
Indeed. And remember, nothing screams family values like ‘grab them by the pussy’.
That was because he lied about it
and it was a breach of family values.under oath while testifying before Congress as the defendant in a sexual harassment inquiryCome on. Clinton was guilty of exactly what Starr charged him with. If he’d been convicted maybe it would have led to holding powerful politicians accountable and prevented someone like Trump from ever happening. Instead the Dems circled the wagons and spun it like he was being persecuted. People are still repeating that lie to this day.
What do you suppose would have happened to you or me if we’d perjured ourselves before Congress?
Nah I totally agree. I’m just pointing out the degree of hypocrisy. I’ve heard the take that the disingenuous politician realized they were free from repercussions after Nixon got away with it.
Didn’t mean to come off as divisive along party lines. Democratic and Republican party leadership is on the side of corporations and the wealthy. One class. Working class.
