“I don’t care about you. I just want your vote.” - Trump 2024
The most honest he will ever be
Honestly, it’s like he’s just trying to test where the line is at this point.
Who knows, maybe even he’s surprised by how much these supporters gobble up whatever shite he spews.
If it’s personal behavior, there is no line.
Seriously, we need to internalize this: If you support Donald Trump in 2024 at this point, there is no goddamn line. There is nothing too atrocious or puerile or insulting to his own base that he could do or say to lose them at this point. He owns them.
I used to joke that he could literally eat a baby live on stage at one of his rallies and not lose supporters, because he’d insist it was fake news even as the blood dripped down his chin.
It’s not a joke anymore. He really could do it, and far too many of his supporters would believe him over their own lying eyes.
Trump support, at this point, is a mental health crisis in this country.
I reckon if he just turned it around and became a stand up guy, helping immigrants settle peacefully, becoming a role model for the world stage from a moral standpoint, he’d lose all those supporters.
It’d be amazing to watch that character arc too.
Except he wouldn’t even deny it anymore. He’d just say “That baby tasted awful. I’ve ate much tastier babies than that. That baby was a democrat, and voted for Obama.”
And his base would cheer that the world has one less person in it who would vote for Obama in 2042. But don’t worry, abortion is still illegal, because they’re all pro-life…until you’re born.
And yes, I’M fully aware of the logical inconsistancies of that scenario. They are not. That’s the joke.
He says real shit, then adds, " I’m joking. Remember that when the news reports on things I say. It’s not real. Unless it is."
“Your face is ugly and that is why you can’t get a man. Haha I’m just joking.” - Trump
Trump voters loved this.
Always saying the quiet part out loud.
Trump doesn’t have a quiet part. He only has two settings. Either really loud and obnoxious, or sleeping and farting. There is no inbetween.
Oh man, I hate trump but it’s pretty obviously a joke.
“I never joke”
Trump himself
And it’s true
It was a hook, and the media grabbed it. It’s really more of a way to continue to divide people and keep them in the voting groups. Trump won’t get anyone from the left to vote for him, but he has to keep those on the right in his camp. So these are tools to alienate each from the other and secure the base.
And it’s also him saying what he really thinks out loud, but it’s been shown time and again he can do that and it won’t be those words that drive people away. His biggest fear is silence, if the media isn’t talking about him then people might drift to other places.
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Hi, I’m Tom Hanks. But what most people don’t know is that “Tom Hanks” is just a stage name. My real name is Hank Toms…
Ah yes because trump hasn’t done anything to lose benefit of doubt
Meh.
As his supporters laughed, Trump then went on to say that reporters attending the rally would take his words out of context and tell viewers that the ex-president had said a “horrible” thing onstage.
Title is literally that
