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If everyone had just taken a beat and listened to the context the first time, and realized it was his fearmongering justifying his war, then the reaction would have been more analytical and maybe his team doesn’t latch onto it as red meat for him to keep chewing on.

Why do you think he "meant" something that he didn't say?

Not only do we have an incredibly corrupt president he's so fkn mentally derranged

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Before that I remember him calling Mexicans criminals and rapists. I remember him telling the Proud Boys to stand by during a presidential debate. I remember him proudly saying he could sexually assault women, and then being convicted for it. I also remember him being convicted for fraud.

Don’t forget “stand back and stand by”.

Still working for puti. Wouldn’t u love to know what those obligations are?

It's predictable

Stand bak and stand down? Remember all the suspicious wildfires? He’s a don. Innuendo is plenty to act.

Yup. Not the kind of thing you forget if you want to preserve democracy.

His fans hear “Imagine nuking L.A.,” Very Serious Reporters hear “Imagine what terrible things could have happened if we had let Iran have the bomb,” and it’s mission accomplished

He said it twice now. He fucking means it! bsky.app/profile/midd...

In the context of Trump's Nebraska rally speech, which Aaron was following live and posting on Bluesky, the "cities" line was shocking to me at that time. Trump's goal was "entertaining" his base. Trump was joking that Iran bombing LA would be a good thing. His audience laughed. It's inexcusable.

You are right to say it’s Trumps fantasy. Blue cities attacked, proving him right. Do you think he’ll work to prevent his fantasy from coming true?

He makes abject fools out of anyone who defends him, and they still do it, time and time again. Giving the benefit of the doubt to this monster, who would clearly love to see violence and destruction in blue cities, I’m just smdh all day long.

To those defending him by recycling the word "could" from his lead-in statement, what this dangerous despot said was: "Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego." These targeted, spiteful words are incitement from a POTUS who has sought to punish blue states & sanctuary cities.

His cultists would defend him shitting on the Bible as Natalie wiped the drool frm his chin.

Focus on the 1000 other quotes that can’t be pretzeled

Except this reminds me of him saying that political opponents should be executed about 2 years ago and people saying that "he didn't mean that", ignoring that it wasn't the first time that he said that. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp... www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/p... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is the real shit. No one is talking about him saying the same thing about Mobile when he was in Mobile. Because he phrased it differently and the reactionaries are fine with Mobile vs California because that feeds the political narrative. He's repeating it now yeah because it generated clicks

I honestly don't care about trying to individually parse the increasingly incoherent statements from the Oval Office. The gist of them is quite clear. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

When did Iran get a nuke?

This has always been a GOPnik thing, too—remember even before the “Macaca moment” how Bill “Book of Virtues” Bennett said incredibly racist things and then claimed he was “taken out of context”? That was always their go-to when called out for their overt bigotry…

What he said about these two cities is what he wants to happen. He’s only fooling the stupid people that stand up for his nonsense.

Even the most favorable interpretation of his remarks can't ignore the fact that he got the audience to cheer the idea of murdering millions on Americans for being (or perceived as, since San Diego is a military town) as Democrat voters.

Locker-room talk

He made a bad argument, badly. That’s plenty to criticize without pretending he made a different one.

Love your work AR. But this is a false equivalence.

Classic bully/abuser "Can't you take a joke?" 🐂 💩

Make sure the two are on site.

The plot is truly lost....

The existence of the Epstein Class is a crime against humanity

if 9/11 happened today there’s a decent number of americans who would view it as an attack on their enemies.

Not sure red America understands how we’re supposed to feel here in California now? The fact that anyone in power would say this ….. and that people applauded what he said….. makes me feel like “why does my state remain part of this country anymore?”

when someone defends Trump in any way they are telling you who they are.

Yeah…and here he goes again about bombing LA & San Diego….

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And I bet the line will become part of his rally schtick up until the mid-terms. He'll like that his followers get excited about the possibility two California cities getting nuked and he gets satisfaction from saying outrageous things and having pundits ruminate about what he really meant.

It's clear that this deranged scumbag hates most of his constituents, including MAGAe

Trump should have been impeached and charged with treason moments after those vile words left his mouth.

Tillis, still loyal for no known reason, even doubled down on it. "If he had said Raleigh or Charlotte, I'd be upset."