It doesn't matter what he's talking about, because, suddenly, he mentions a well-known movie character. "The late, great, Forrest Gump," he says. "Have you heard of him, Forrest Gump? He's got that box of chocolates. If you sit next to him, he'll start telling you about a box of chocolates. Forrest Gump. Don't sit next to him or you'll hear a long story about his mother and the chocolates. Forrest Gump, incredible." And then he goes on with the speech.
If this happened, people would be all over social media, claiming that this is all the proof we need that the man has completely lost his mind, that he's obviously been senile for most of his life, and he's out of touch with reality. The mainstream media, pretending to be neutral, would put it in the form of questions: "Does he have a medical problem? Is it time for him to stop campaigning? Will his party tell him to step down?" They'd claim, "Alarms are going off in Washington as the president's strange remarks have his team struggling to explain what's going on," and so on.
Yet, oddly enough, when donald trump repeatedly digresses into ramblings about his beloved movie character, Hannibal Lecter, hardly an eyebrow is raised. For years, the lord and master of the Republican Party has made many very strange public statements. The news media rarely comment, and never suggest that his bloviations about indoor plumbing, batteries, wind turbines, or imaginary history are signs of mental deterioration.
The double standard is real. The question is why. Why do the news media, who were threatened and vilified by trump and treated kindly by the President, want to undermine the President's re-election campaign?
This vile T-shirt, promoting the lynching of reporters, was popularized by trump supporters after trump imitated Hitler and labeled the news "The enemy of the people." Maybe trump's threats against their lives has made reporters too terrified to tell the truth. Yet that would seem a good reason for them to prefer a President who has not incited violence against them. |
"With regard to the forest, when trees fall down, after a short period of time, about 18 months, they become very dry, they become really like a matchstick. And they get up, y’know there’s no more water pouring through, and they become very very, uh, they just explode, they can explode."
- donald trump, September 14, 2020
- donald trump, September 14, 2020
"These millions and millions of people that are coming from prisons, coming from
prisons and jails, you know there is a slight difference okay. They're coming from
prisons and jails, mental institutions and insane asylums like Silence of the Lamb,
the press always says why does he ramble about si- Silence of the Lamb, the late
great Hannibal Lecter, he'd like to have you over for dinner, do you ever, don't do
it, if he suggests I'd like to have you for dinner, don't go. But these are the people,
these are the people that are coming into our country."
- donald trump, June 28, 2024.
- donald trump, June 28, 2024.
“No water in your faucets. You ever try buying a new home
and you turn on. You want to wash your hair or you wanna
wash your hands. You turn on the water and it goes drip,
drip the soap. You can't get it off your hand. So you keep it
running for about 10 times longer. You trying, the worst is
your hair. I have this beautiful luxuriant hair and I put stuff
on. I put it in lather. I like lots of lather because I like it to
come out extremely dry because it seems to be slightly
thicker that way. And I lather up and then you turn on this
crazy shower and the thing drip, drip and you say I'm gonna
be here for 45 minutes. What? There's so much water. You
don't know what to do with it. You know, it's called rain. It
rains a lot in certain places. But, now their idea, you know,
did you see the other day? They just, I opened it up and
they closed it again. I opened it, they close it, washing
machines to wash your dishes. There is a problem. They
don't want you to have any water. They want no water.”
- donald trump, June 22, 2024
- donald trump, June 22, 2024
"Millions of people from places unknown, from countries unknown,
who don't speak languages. We have languages coming into our country,
we have nobody that even speaks those languages. They're truly foreign
languages, nobody speaks them."
- donald trump, Feb. 28, 2024
- donald trump, Feb. 28, 2024
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