Trump: I have the support of the police, military, and tough people who don't play tough... until a certain point, then it will get bad

[Deleted member 249]

U.S. President Donald Trump has warned his political opponents of the possibility that they could eventually be confronted by armed Trump supporters in and out of uniform, telling a right-wing website on Monday that "it would be very bad, very bad" if his backers in the military, police and a motorcycle group were provoked into getting "tough."

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The Star

The full quote Trump gave (I will not be linking to the site he presented the quote to, mostly because I don't want them getting our clicks, but if you're desperate to see it, it's linked in the Star article I linked to above):

"So here's the thing—it's so terrible what's happening," Trump said when asked about how the left is fighting hard. "You know, the left plays a tougher game, it's very funny. I actually think that the people on the right are tougher, but they don't play it tougher. Okay? I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump – I have the tough people, but they don't play it tough — until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad. But the left plays it cuter and tougher. Like with all the nonsense that they do in Congress … with all this invest[igations]—that's all they want to do is –you know, they do things that are nasty. Republicans never played this."

It sounds to me like he is preparing the stage to legitimize any use of force or state power to block a succession of power should (when) he lose the 2020 election. Which is, frankly, alarming.

 

[Wilsongt]

Oh dear... That's dictator speak right there.

 

[nsilvias]

thems fighting words...

 

[Greigor the FellHand]

100% things a dictator says

 

[mael]

hey do things that are nasty. Republicans never played this

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He already forgot the death of Benjamin Ghazi?

 

[Deleted member 11413]

Sounds like an authoritarian dictator.

 

[Deleted member 10629]

Happy The Division 2 release day :)

 

[HeySeuss]

Republicans never played this lol. SHOW ME YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE

 

[KtotheRoc]

Imagine America having a second Civil War over fucking Donald Trump...

 

[EdibleKnife]

Fuck you, Trump. Bring it on, you pathetic bitch. If your little cult wants to throw down, I'll be more than happy to respond in kind.

 

[RailWays]

Spoken like a true dictator.
Your ass is grass in 2020

 

[riotous]

Sounds like an authoritarian dictator.

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Who rambles like an idiot..

 

[jelly]

Nutters will take this too far one day, Trump is stoking it, he wants them to take people out, it's just that nobody hasn't snapped or being caught before they do.

 

[Lightning Count]

That sounds ominous, he will not go quietly.

 

[Ketch]

Sounds like an authoritarian dictator.

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or a mob boss.

you wouldn't want my friends to get tough

it would be ashame if something happened to your congress

 

[BlueTsunami]

Still a year and a half to go. I fear for where we'll be at the start of 2020. I know what it is to get into shit with a narcissist. They will not blink as their world burns.

 

[Parthenios]

If this was in a terrorist video by bin Laden or something you wouldn't even be allowed to air the quote, because it's very clearly a call to violent action.

 

[WedgeX]

There it is, the prep for full on state-political violence.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

"He gets other people to do it." -Cohen

 

[marrec]

Oh the President is threatening citizens cool cool cool cool

 

[Deleted member 1086]

wow

 

[Deleted member 13328]

Yikes.

I'm just imagining the Swedish PM saying sonething like that. Shit would go down.

 

[Deleted member 11413]

Who rambles like an idiot..

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That's a pretty common quality among authoritarian dictators and dictator-wannabes. Duterte and Bolsonaro sound just like this.

 

[SlickShoesRUCRazy]

I mean, if things get to that point, I'm fine with labeling trump and trump supporters as traitors/enemy combatants and them being dealt with with deadly force.

 

[higemaru]

Of course he would go to Breitbart to make this statement. Like everything else Trump has said, it's an empty threat.

Also, bikers aren't threatening. They're all like 300 years old and listen to nothing but Dropkick Murphys. Gonna need a better defense squad than those guys and some paunchy cops.

 

[Deleted member 11413]

or a mob boss.

you wouldn't want my friends to get tough

it would be ashame if something happened to your congress

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He wishes he was a mob boss.

 

[Yerffej]

Ain't scaring us, idiot. We'll vote and out you'll be.

 

[TheModestGun]

This sounds like a commandment, not a concern or a fear. This bastard literally dreams of right wing violence if democrats win the general election.

 

[ahoyle]

Im really starting to doubt he will leave office willingly. I fully expect him to declare the election invalid, and that he will stay in office while the "investigate". And 50 million people will buy it 100%.

 

[bdbdbd]

It's a load of nonsense. All this amounts to is him putting the "hope" out there that someone indirectly acts on his behalf, but he'll never act or command directly because he doesn't want blood on his hands. And none of these people ever truly suffer that badly under a "librul agenda" that they would ever be willing to put their necks on the line for *him*, en masse.

Ooh, those investigations are nasty. Watch me post a meme about it on facebook for you, Mr. President, sir.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Of course he would go to Breitbart to make this statement. Like everything else Trump has said, it's an empty threat.

Also, bikers aren't threatening. They're all like 300 years old and listen to nothing but Dropkick Murphys. Gonna need a better defense squad than those guys and some paunchy cops.

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It's a call from the POTUS to shoot people. It is absolutely not an empty threat.

 

[Raguel]

I love how he hides behind his "tough" supporters like the coward bitch he is. He act as if his supporters are anything other than little terrified cunts. Let them come. We'll see how tough these guys really are. Fucking shit stains

 

[A Syrian Communist]

Republican saying the quiet part loud

 

[Ogami Itto]

Yeah, I don't see anybody dying for this idiot, lol.

 

[cameron]

He's made similar statements at his rallies.

 

[Sweeney Swift]

This country's been trying to take me down my whole life. I'm still standing

 

[APOEERA]

I did a telephone town hall with the representative for my district (you know, the one who had a Confederate book in his office) and he is convinced that Trump will get elected again in 2020; I imagine that Republicans will act surprised when Trump loses and Trump tries not to transition out of power correctly.

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Can you imagine taking up arms and dying for Trump; a man who would literally piss on your corpse if it makes him 25 cents.

 

[Deleted member 11413]

This sounds like a commandment, not a concern or a fear. This bastard literally dreams of right wing violence if democrats win the general election.

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That's exactly what it is.

 

[deftones r cool]

People who advocate violence support an old fart who also advocates violence.

Quit embarrasing my country, you spoiled ham.

 

[Umbrella Carp]

The Gun industry love this sort of shit. The right buy even more guns and the more radical side of the left start buying them

 

[Guts Of Thor]

Fuck this fascist pig.

 

[EdibleKnife]

Yeah, I don't see anybody dying for this idiot, lol.

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You don't? In the wake of Synagogue shootings and bomb threats from people who worship Trump, I frankly wouldn't be surprised.

 

[Ogami Itto]

People who advocate violence support an old fart who also advocates violence.

Quit embarrasing my country, you spoiled ham.

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Also, 90% of them are all talk, lol.

 

[Window]

I know that with the election of Trump, faith in US democracy is low but I don't think we're close to the point where one man seize full control past their elected terms just quite yet.

Regardless, this is an absolutely terrible thing for a leader of a nation to be saying.

 

[Deleted member 1086]

Also, bikers aren't threatening. They're all like 300 years old and listen to nothing but Dropkick Murphys. Gonna need a better defense squad than those guys and some paunchy cops.

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Smokey and the Bandit taught me how to deal with bikers

 

[meowdi gras]

Fuck you, Trump. Bring it on, you pathetic bitch. If your little cult wants to throw down, I'll be more than happy to respond in kind.

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Civility!

 

[Ogami Itto]

You don't? In the wake of Synagogue shootings and bomb threats from people who worship Trump, I frankly wouldn't be surprised.

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Well, ok I don't see many people dying for him, there will always be some unhinged idiots out there.

 

[Cat Party]

This is obviously a terrifying and dangerous thing for the supposedly democratically elected leader of any country to say, but please remember that Trump is fuckin coward and has never ever in his life backed up his tough talk with actions.

 

[wenis]

Ain't scaring us, idiot. We'll vote and out you'll be.

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that's sweet that you'll think it'll be that easy. he's going to drag it out and won't accept the outcome if its not in his favor.