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Trump pointed to Biden and Harris’ past comments casting Trump as a “threat to democracy,” while telling Americans they are “unity” leaders.

“They are the opposite,” Trump said. “These are people that want to destroy our country.”

The lack of self-awareness is amazing.

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 233 points 2 days ago (7 children)

It's become obvious over time that one of Trump's primary strategies in life is assigning his failures and faults to other people. He lives in a sort of permanent fog of projection.

I wonder who he's trying to fool though. It's so constant and seemingly effortless that I suspect that it's really mostly for his own benefit - that it's not just the story he's telling other people, but the story he's telling himself.

[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 107 points 2 days ago

This is called narcissism, he is just a narcissist with a hard-on for himself and unfortunate access to widespread attention

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Same people he has been fooling for years. The fanatical MAGA believers and everyone on the right who subscribes to the whole, "If it doesn't fit my narrative, it is fake news."

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's got to be driving him absolutely nuts that the second shooter is also a presumably christian, straight, white, man. Anything else and he could work with it. White woman? Women are too emotional and shouldn't be trusted to make important decisions. Black man? Go-go all out on the racism. Brown skinned? Anti immigration fear mongering. Trans or gay? Groomer nonsense. Anything other than Christian and he could fearmonger about their foreign religions.

Literally the only identity he can't exploit is christian, straight, white men and they're the ones who keep trying to kill him.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

Shooter 1: Republican

Shooter 2: Former MAGA

Hmmm

These democrats sure are playing long cons...

[–] Sunforged@lemmy.ml 122 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wink, wink, straight arm raised salute awkwardly transitioned into a waving motion

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 60 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Yea this is getting dangerous. We need to put him somewhere safe. Like really safe. Maybe like concrete walls so bullets can't get through, and barred windows to prevent would-be assassins from getting in. Have like multiple points of entry under lock and key, with armed guards all over.

Wall off the entire area too - big tall concrete walls. And barbed wire on top. No one's getting through that! Ooh and some towers around good vantage points with spotlights and snipers.

We really can't be too careful.

Does anyone know a place like that where Trump might belong?

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[–] Nunar@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

He didn't get shot at. Some doofus brought a gun within the no-no zone on him. He's trying to fundraise because of it. Apparently he's most popular when he's getting shot at...

[–] sudo42@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What Trump needs is a Good Guy With A Gun.

Has he tried hiring a security guard? Did he try Duck & Cover? An armed school teacher maybe?

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Why hasn't the billionaire properly secured himself? We all know the public option is de minimus, so why hasn't he gone deep into the private mercenary world to hire the best?

/s if it wasn't obvious

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago

This statement is expected from the Gaslight, Obstruct, Project political party.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 94 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I heard Trump and Vance have been eating the dogs and cats in Ohio

[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I’m from Ohio, and confirm that I’ve witnessed this!

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago

I've heard of Ohio, so I can confirm that others have witnessed this

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 77 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

He claims their rhetoric is making him look like the next Hitler who should be shot before he reaches power.

He doesn't need anyone's rhetoric to make it look that way. His own words and actions do it pretty well.

And also fuck this guy. He has been constantly and blatantly calling out for, encouraging and defending political violence against his opponents. He's only upset that he's on the receiving end of it this time. VOTE HIM OUT.

[–] boydster@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 days ago (8 children)

His own words and actions do it pretty well

Yup! It's like he's envisioning the prelude to the Holocaust and wanting to bring it into the modern day. This is from earlier today on his dumpster fire of a site:

Trump's rhetoric making Trump seem like the next Hitler

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

"I lied and was wrong but I'm not to blame. It's the person who tells on me who is to blame. If they didn't tell on me, non of this would have happened as people wouldn't have known I lied".

It's a typical sociopathic way of thinking you aren't to blame but instead the person who punishes you / calls you out is. Like, when you robbed a bank, you blame the police for being locked up, not yourself for committing the crime.

Remember: A former president, a current presidential candidate, is unable to take responsibility and accountability for any of his actions. Do you really want someone like that to have control over one of the biggest countries, controlling thousands of nuclear weapons and the mightiest military, while constantly acting in favor of Putin, a dictator and enemy of NATO? Like, the stupidity of this all makes everyone in the movie Idiocracy look smart.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 89 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

... but I don't.

... rubs eyes

... but I don't.

...

IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE IS THAT EVEN REMOTELY, METAPHORICALLY, GENEROUSLY TRUE!? The man cannot open his mouth without generally talking about how everyone on the left is actively, intentionally and malevolently destroying America, and that's when he is not actively calling for his highly volatile MAGA followers to do unethical, and even illegal, things to ensure "they don't steal this election". His followers break into and flood the Capital Building leaving police officers in their wake, conspire to kidnap governors, break into Nancy Pelosi's home and beat her husband to within an inch of his life when they don't find her, not to mention all the general violence and hate of those like the Proud Boys, the Patriot Front, and other white Christian nationalists. The idea that anyone could ever possibly see you as innocent in, at minimum, your rhetoric is mistifying.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's projection.

With conservatives It's always fucking projection.

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[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 26 points 2 days ago

His coaching from his campaign is showing through. They desperately want him to be the law and order candidate, "weathering the storm from the militant left", but he just can't help but attack the left and encourage further violence. He will sabotage his own campaign and image if he starts encouraging violence here.

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[–] SilentStorms@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago

It’s so funny that the Republicans are suddenly very concerned about stochastic terrorism. Do they really want to open that can of worms?

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

“It’s just horrible – so surprising to see it here. But we have to get over it. We have to move forward.”

-Trump in response to a school shooting in Iowa, the day after the shooting, back in January 2024.

Trump needs to get over being shot at, that's the America that him and the GOP have created. If he doesn't like it... maybe consider some sort of way to control access to guns so that unhinged individuals can't get them... something like... I don't know, gun control?

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago

Remember when all the Republicans were making jokes about the guy breaking into Pelosi's house and attacking her husband with a hammer?

They encourage political violence because they know it generally benefits them and then act outraged when it bites one of them.

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Says the guy who was "just invited to give a speech" on 1/6/21, and who had no idea whether his innocent highlight of JD Vance's Ohio Consituent's "first hand evidence" led to numerous bomb threats over several days.

Trump later added. "I can use it too — far better than they can — but I don’t."

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Trump later added. "I can use it too — far better than they can — but I don’t."

hmmmmm

Destroy our Country: https://www.thetrumparchive.com/?searchbox=%22destroying%22&resultssortOption=%22Latest%22

Threat to Democracy https://www.thetrumparchive.com/?searchbox=%22threat+to+democracy%22&resultssortOption=%22Latest%22

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[–] rusticus@lemm.ee 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You mean rhetoric like “I hate Taylor Swift” from less than 24 hours ago?

Every accusation is a confession. Trump is just pissed that no one will rid him of the meddlesome Kamala.

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[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe 19 points 2 days ago

He’s desperate and is now trying to get them killed. There is no end to what he will do to stay out of prison.

And it’s disgusting that America is allowing him to continue on with this shit. He is ABSOLUTELY above the law.

[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trump supporters are to Trump what Trump is to the Republican party.

They thought they could harness the crazy. Now they face growing existential threats for not being crazy enough.

The find out phase is getting spicy!

Insert your Russian nesting doll of consequences jokes below.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 31 points 2 days ago

Of course he never takes responsibility for his endless words of hate and fear.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That's called a taste of your own medicine Donald. This is how you make the Haitian community in Springfield feel.

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[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The guy voted for Trump in 2016...

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, Sniper #2 supported Trump in his first run, and just got ticked off about Trump not saying that he'd support Ukraine adequately. I don't think that that's something that one can really attach to Biden and Harris.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Come on who would want to do him harm other than them. Not the thousands of people he has scammed. Not the thousands of people he has refused to pay for services rendered. Not the people he has raped. Just the latest focus of concern. /s

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kind of like how his rhetoric is causing people to call in bomb threats in Springfield? I hope the second attempt really puts fear into his heart: it's not just one crazy guy, there could be gunmen everywhere.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I really don't want Trump to get shot and killed.

I really really want Trump to live the rest of his life in constant fear and paranoia, never able to enjoy the things that he loves, isolated from the world and starving for the adulation of the people who will quickly forget him in the prison of his own making as he taps away at his phone on his own little social media bubble, grasping at being relevant again until the day he dies of natural causes and the nation lets out a wet fart of false sympathy and lowers the flags to half staff for the day while the news media puffs him up one last time before they, too, stop giving a shit and we close this chapter of our lives and our nation.

That requires Harris to beat Trump in November, so I need the fucker to stay alive until then.

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[–] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

And the lies he and JD are telling about Haitians has no impact on them?

[–] auzy@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh absolutely.

Guys. Stop. Saying anything about him okay.

Let's create a safe space and protect the guy who is open to Nazis,bigots and previously protected gun freaks

Seriously, all this is like digging a hole on the beach and then injuring yourself when you fall in.. and then blaming the lifeguards..

Then after getting help, start digging more holes

[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

WTF his crap fucked up an entire city this past week.

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[–] goddard@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

If you look at his press release he also quotes their words in like over 100 instances.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

"Its all Biden and Harris' fault! If they would stop telling the people what my plans are and what I want to do, none of this would have happened! They are making me a target by telling the world what I am and how I want to bring about the Fourth Reich in honor of my great Hero, Hitler!"

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 25 points 2 days ago

Does he think the attempts will stop if he wins? Because plenty of people will still hate him or want to become famous or be mentally ill. If anything, the hate might ratchet up.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Bull. Shit. His allegiance to Putin is what caused him to be shot at this time.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

remember when racist and delusional republicans had a wbush poster / meme with "miss me yet?" written on it during the obama administration?

they could do one with the orange turd except this time it can be answered with "yes, twice".

[–] shadearg@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Love the Wololo.

They're his people.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 26 points 2 days ago

Trump, who completely lacks any ability to self-reflect, of course passes the blame on to someone else.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Trump and stochastic terrorism, name a better couple!

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