“That’s why it was one of the great presidencies, they say. Even the opponents sometimes say he did very well, I have to say. ‘Take it back,’ they scream. his people say ‘Take it back.’ From that day on, our opponents, a lot of opponents, but we’ve been waging an all-out war on American democracy.”
Doesn’t sound like a gaffe to me. He has been waging a war on American democracy, literally tried a coup.
This. Why are people treating it like it’s a joke? He’s literally been spouting the bullet points from Project 2025 practically since it came out.
This wasn’t a gaffe, it was the mask slipping.
“When somebody tells you who they are, believe them.”
Snopes’ take on this is really weird. They seem to be bending over backwards to invent an alternative narrative for him for some reason.
Listening to the videos, it sounds pretty clear to me that Trump did in fact say “we’ve been waging an all-out a war on American democracy.” Not in. _In _doesn’t even make any sense in the context. You wage war _in _a place, like Ukraine or Palestine. You wage war _on _a concept, like terror or democracy.
That said, I can definitely give him a pass that he didn’t mean what he said. I can believe that it was very much a gaffe, because he is such a goddamned moron who rambles on without thinking. It sounds to me like he wanted to express that he is fighting in a war that his opponents are waging on American democracy, and he just said it wrong because he’s a fucking idiot. It seems obvious that’s what he meant to say, and he just said it wrong.
Which is what makes this snopes article so weird… why call the claim false and then defend him in this way? Why not rate this as mixture? Oh well…
The only way to justify it IMO is if he meant “for”.
Because Snopes is trash.
I remember like a decade+ ago they were considered reliable. No idea if that was false all along and they were just very convincing or they’ve genuinely degraded.
It was run by a husband and wife. The husband cheated on her, they divorced, and he seized the website, then sold it, then set up a GoFundMe to try and seize it back. Not sure who runs it now
Damn, that sounds like a read, do you have a link I couid follow to read up more?
I believe this is the one I read.
https://mashable.com/article/snopes-lawsuit-gofundme
I dunno how it played out after that
Perfect! Thank you!
Not even a gaffe, he’s just saying the quiet part out loud.
I’m convinced he would prefer to take power via coup in lieu of winning the election.
There’s absolutely no doubt that this is the case.
do you have any idea how little that narrows it down?
Did Trump acknowledge that this was a gaffe or is everyone assuming it was? Genuine question
Narcissists aren’t particularly interested in admitting even little mistakes, so I doubt it.
You know what I think, Walt? I think you accidentally told the truth for once.
The biggest joke about Trump headlines is that Americans are still talking about him as if he’s still a viable politician.
Trump isn’t the joke - the world isn’t laughing at Trump.
The American political system is - the world is laughing at America as a whole.
Actually, no. We’re not laughing. We’re horrified. It would be funny if this wasn’t the most powerful country on earth about to once again give command of the most powerful military on earth to a certified moron and clinical psychopath. If this was happening in Liechtenstein or Andorra, it would be funny.
The US also has a tendency of exporting its nonsense to the rest of the world. So it’s not like we’re safe out here watching the clown show.
See Myanmar justifying its 2021 coup d’état by “election fraud” (wonder where they got that idea) and Bolsonaro’s fanbase doing a more violent copycat version of Jan 6 in Brasil as examples.
Trump is a viable politician. He’s winning the Republican primary by a wide margin and he’s up a few points on Biden in the general. He could win, that’s the definition of viable.
