Trump Celebrates Recent Violence Against Journalists, Says It’s ‘Actually A Beautiful Sight’
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Trump Celebrates Recent Violence Against Journalists, Says It’s ‘Actually A Beautiful Sight’
President Donald Trump celebrated violence against journalists during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday night, mocking a reporter who was injured covering this summer’s racial injustice demonstrations and calling the act “actually a beautiful sight.”
The president’s comments are the latest of many attacks on the free press but an overt endorsement of members of the media coming under attack. During one moment at the rally, Trump recounted racial justice demonstrations in Minneapolis following the police killing of George Floyd, saying the city had been “cured” after National Guard troops were deployed.
“They’d grab one guy — I’m a reporter. I’m a reporter,’” Trump said, imitating the scene. “They threw him aside like he was a little bag of popcorn. Honestly, when you watch the crap that we’ve all had to take so long, when you see that — you don’t want to do that — but when you see it, it’s actually a beautiful sight.”
“It’s a beautiful sight,” he repeated.
Velshi responded to the comments later Tuesday, wondering on Twitter why a journalist getting shot on the job was a “beautiful thing to Trump?” The president made a similar remark about Velshi’s injury at another rally this weekend.
The president went on to spread falsehoods about the largely peaceful demonstrations across the nation that are calling for an end to police brutality and systemic racism following the deaths of Floyd and other Black Americans at the hands of law enforcement.
“They go out and buy tuna fish and soup,” Trump claimed, adding: “Because they throw it. It’s the perfect weight. Tuna fish, they can really rip it and it hits you. … You can throw that sucker, you can put a curve on it.”
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What would be a beautiful sight I am not allowed to say. It would be considered death wishing.
I know what you want to say, but they can't stop us from thinking it can they?
You could wish dishonest Donald were put in front of a firing squad armed with rubber bullets where he is repeatedly shot in the crotch. That's not death wishing, just deserved punishment for the last 4 years of incompetence.
What a freakshow we have for a 'president'.
It is more like a bad imitation of PT Barnum with his his supporters being the suckers born every minute.
The man is a heartless mental midget.
2020 is a dumpster fire and Trump keeps pouring gasoline on it.