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I'm not convinced he knew the question was about current events. (Even in 2020 when this is from)

"What do you think they [protesters] want?" Harris Faulkner of Fox News asked the president. "What do you think they need, right now, from you?"

Here was Trump's answer, verbatim:

"Protesters for different reasons. You're protesting also because, you know, they just didn't know. I've watch - I watched very closely. Why are you here? They really weren't able to say, but they were there for a reason, perhaps.

"But a lot of them really were there because they're following the crowd. A lot of them were there because what we witnessed was a terrible thing. What we saw was a terrible thing. And we've seen it over the years. We haven't, you know, this was one horrible example, but you've seen other terrible examples. You know that better than anybody who would know it. And I know it. I've seen it, too. I've seen it before I was president. I've seen it. I think it's a shame. I think it's a disgrace. And it's got to stop."

Edit: This quote was from 2020

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And Biden got shit for an occasional stutter, this guy blows my mind. 🙄
- Because the Right has no interest in anything except winning, so htey ignore any problems with their Leader.
  Trump just blew off a chance to honor four US soldiers who died in Lithuania; they are still screaming about Obama's 'latte' salute.'
  
  How can the LEFT have any reasonable opinions if they cant even write PRONOUNS correctly
  /s
- They aren’t smart enough to judge the content of the words, they can only tell trump enunciated his hot air more.
  
  This was my response to the Trump-Biden debate:
  Imagine one guy who's been doing the same job, working hard, for decades, and you can tell he should retire, but his work ethic is just beyond anything and he absolutely will not, even though clearly a couple of teeth on his gears have gone stripped. And then there's this only slightly younger asshole who's never worked a day in his life, who knows fuck all from fuck nothing, who's a racist and a rapist, who's declared bankruptcy and been convicted of felonies, but he's got enough energy to lean back and yell "That other guy is an asshole! His job isn't that hard! I could do that!" and even though you and everyone with three functioning brain cells knows that the second guy is full of shit, he's got just a tiny bit left in the tank that he could use to make life a living hell for all of us.
- Right, completely unintelligible
- I mean, biden was trash. Just at a much weaker concentration.
  
  Biden wasn't trash. He was the boring unexciting politics of getting shit done without fanfare. You know, like politics should be.
  
  It's the difference between eating an apple seed and eating a barrel of cyanide capsules.
- Did you not see the debate between these 2 old fucks? Biden had more than just a stutter.
  
  Did you see any other speech by biden in the 4 years prior to that, or did you base the your decision on a few Tick tock clips that were probably AI generated? Did you even watch the full debate or did you just hit it for some confirmation bias?
  What are your feelings on trump tho? Why does biden live in your head rent free? He's gone, say something about the current leadership?
  
  Yes, he was having a bad night and trump was coked up
  
  At least one of them had the decency to step down.
  
  And by the way and by the way and by the way and by the way and by the way and by the way
- Let's not sugar coat it. I'm no trump fan but Biden was about as lucid as a piece of driftwood.
  
  Idk who's downvoting you. It's not anyone who saw the debate, that's for sure.
- If you think what was wrong with Joe Biden was a stutter...
  You're ignorant of his entire political career, and all the people who have came clean about hiding his mental decline while in office.
  https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/joe-bidens-final-days
  He got rid of the stutter long before entering politics. Literally 60 years ago
  A stutter doesn't show back up in your late 70s when you havent had it since you were a teenager.
  The reason trump and Biden are similar in how they speak, is they're both geriatric and should be in old folks homes already.
  Stop yelling that your grandpa forgets to put pants on less than Timmy's grandpa like it's some kind of accomplishment
  
  Sorry you're out here defending against bots or something. How anyone could forget the display of cognitive decline during the debate is beyond me. One of many.

Trump is a brain-dead dickhead, but this post is not, in fact, about current events. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/12/trump-george-floyd-protesters-315532
- There are 8 more upvoted comments to yours.. I.e. the first post I saw to provide context/source for this, which is what I was looking for.
  For anyone reading this, if you weren't looking for the provenance of this quote and simply reacting to it as is, please check yourself.
  To be fair, the fact that this was 5 years ago would likely frighten people even more but at least be aware of what you're reading and reacting to!
- Thank you, as presented to me I didn't recognize that. Edited title and body.
- Thank you for the rest of the picture. We have enough reasons to despise him today, without rehashing his scrambled mouth-shit from five years ago.
- The pixels told me that.
  It’s been going around awhile.
- Oh snap I just commented with source for this and refreshed and saw your comment. Happy someone else could be bothered to fact check this too.

This is why I am physically unable to listen to him speak. He just meanders around his sick little brain garden, making no sense at all, but pretending his words are thee most profound thing uttered since God spoke to Moses.
- Commandment 1: Tho shalt, and shalt is a pretty big word you know, it means that you should, but it's really like you must. And I think you must, because it's really important to do the things you know, because they are really important and you should do them.
  Commandment 2: Because if you didn't then you wouldn't have done it, and then it didn't get done, so you should do it, and other should do it.
  Etc etc
- The bigger problem is his cultist idiot followers think so too.

Top of the line aneurysm shit talking. How does it even still stand on its feet?
- Crooked.
  https://www.reddit.com/r/Presidents/comments/16b7fwn/whats_up_with_trumps_posture_lumbar_lordosis/#lightbox
  
  How the hell is he not toppling over? What black magic fuckery is keeping him upright?
  
  Ladies and gentlemen, President Weeble Wobble
  
  https://www.politicalflare.com/2020/05/trumps-bizarre-forward-leaning-stance-could-be-an-early-symptom-of-frontotemporal-dementia/

I’ve heard from many people that if I just took literally what he says then I won’t get his message. That I have to look at the meaning behind the exact words that he uses.
And I’ve started doing that.
And I am even more confused than before
- It’s like religion
  Say some vague shit without a clear meaning. Let people fill in their interpretations of it in their mind. They feel smart for “understanding”. They confuse the dopamine rush for admiration. Congratulations they are now addicted to your bullshit
  
  it’s like stupidity
- It's like the Bible, I think.
  
  The Bible is far more coherent, even if it’s mostly fiction.
  
  Idk jesus was pretty based, he fucked up merchants, talked shit to power, if you remove the whole son of God thing, he makes for an interesting first century character. Book was iiiight (6/10)
- My comment is not targeted at you, but that sentiment.
  That’s such an asinine take. They’re clearly just providing cover for nonsense from Trump.
  Definitely one of those “if you believe it hard enough, it’ll be true” things for them.
  On the one hand, it might do them good to have their bubbles burst as Trump continues to degrade. It could get them to the place where they realize they were lied to by a fraudster. On the other, it’s bad for all of us that he’s so out of it and suggestible while being surrounded by factions representing corporate takeover of the U.S., Christian Fascism, and those who are merely seeking uni-party control under Republicans.

This was from 2020 in response to the George Floyd protests in case anyone was wondering. Not to say that this isn't relevant but with the context of the Hands Off protests it feels like it might get attributed to the wrong event. I guess it's even more worrying that this is the kind of nonsense he was spouting 5 years ago and people still voted him in again.
- I confess that in the context where I saw this I did not realize that!
  
  Stop posting everything you see without doing some work to vet those things yourself. This spread of mis/disinformation goes both ways and the left isn't magically immune to it.

I'm not even convinced he knows where he is half the time.
Having someone this dysfunctional partially in charge of a country is dangerous and shouldn't be allowed.
Edit: The original post quote is apparently from a previous protest from 5 years ago, so not really about current events.
Doesn't change my opinion or make my original comment any less relevant.
- Partial credit to the millions who voted for him, millions who stayed home and the millionaire enablers who didn’t speak up and paid $1M to his inaugural committee.
  I can’t stand him either, but his decline is natural, where the lack of empathy and hatred and poor judgment of the most obese nation is not.

Just one of his usual bizarre non-answers where he has no idea what they're talking about and thorws out some mishmash that he thinks might be applicable.
- he's like an early iteration at building an llm
  
  LLMs would easily be a better president than Trump. Like, it’s not even close.
- Pretty typical conman tactic. And as much as I hate saying anything positive about him, he's really good at it. You can't argue with results.

Syphilis does terrible things to a man's brain.

I have had people directly tell me he isn't mentally disabled when i have pointed out he is absolutely an incoherent rambling fool.
I heard him speak a few times, and i knew he was a complete idiot. He still got a second term. I cant comprehend this level of stupidity.
Maybe i am the dumb one?
- I'm properly dyslexic, speech too, and even I don't sound like that when my brainhalves crash and stutter while forming a sentence.
- Smart people seem stupid to many stupid people because many stupid people are too stupid know they're stupid.
  
  Wouldnt that apply to me in this case? Or is that your point?

Remember when we were all laughing at George W Bush and the dumb shit he said? At least the fuck was concise rather than this embarrassment going on about how he used to tie an onion to his belt to scare off Mexicans or whatever he said.
- I remember when we laughed at Dan Quayle misspelling 'potato'.
  
  I remember when a guy just wanted to have his dick sucked by a cute intern and almost was impeached.

There are kind of credible rumors that he has dementia. Answers like that really make me believe those rumors - it is kind of unimaginable that the president of the United State seems to be unaware of mass protests against him everywhere in the country
- Personally I think it's been glaringly obvious since sometime during his first term that he's not all there, and every time there is discussion about "whether" he has cognitive issues I am stunned that the discussion isn't instead "he has cognitive issues, what do we do about it?"
  
  Are they any recent examples of his word salad?
- he's taken several cognitive tests. one was DURING his presidency. It gave us person woman man camera tv. He was boasting that his handlers were so worried about it that they just HAD to take him to get tested.
  
  I've never seen that video until today. I clicked on it waiting for the inevitable "the doctors were blown away, they'd never seen anyone score that good, my mental acuity is unprecedented it's historys best mental acuity" and sure enough within 30 seconds lol
- He talked like this throughout his first term too so I don't give it much weight
  
  Let's be honest here: He was not normal in his first term, spoke weird even on the campaign trail and what he did as president was not really competent, either. And if you look at old footage from 2015 or 2016, yes, it has gotten worse.
- He's been talking bullshit his whole life. He's basically like every guy that's tried to sell you a timeshare. He's probably declining, but you can find videos from 20, 30 years ago where he doesn't sound much better. He's also very incurious, so if it wasn't on Fox News he probably didn't even know it was happening.

Aneurism presidenting

I had a stroke reading that shit. A first grader could probably say something more coherent and on topic.

He cant even talk lmao

Many words were used, yet nothing was said.

Anyone has a link to audio/video? Can't find it and don't want to scan recent fox news footage.
- Turns out it was from 2020, but that doesn't alter my take much. As presented to me I didn't recognize that. Post now edited.
  https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/12/trump-george-floyd-protesters-315532
  
  Thanks, totally also applies at the current situation. He doesn't seem to care much.

Genuinely sounds like a canned response for any protest if it were happening due to someone being killed by police or a school shooting. He might not have been told by his circle that people were even protesting him.
- He doesn't at all seem to know what the protests are supposedly about. "A lot of them were there because what we witnessed was a terrible thing", what do you think "we" witnessed Trump? I see a few options here.
  He has absolutely no idea about any of this. Either he's being lied to by literally everyone around him, to try to control him like a puppet.
  He is as demented as most sane people think, and has no clue what is happening, despite having been informed
  He simply doesn't give half a shit about any of it, because people who protest are peasnts to him, and don't deserve to be part of his thought process.
  It could be a combination of the above 3, not ruling that out either.
  No matter, this piece of shit is destroying the world order, he's destroying the world economy, and he's destroying the lives of the american people.
  
  Unfortunately he is the Fox News president, he always has been. The feedback loop of fox news to trump ---> trump to Fox news information pipeline is like a small circle that takes 5 minutes to get through.
  Bad idea pops up on Fox, Trump supports it. Bad idea pops up in trump brain, Fox supports it. Its hard to say whats chicken and egg at this point, but its obvious trump will not be seeing images of the protests this weekend in context to them being against him and his policies and henchmen.
  Right now there is someone explaining to trump that these are his supporters flooding streets across the country.
- You can read his Xhitter posts for canned responses from staff. They're trying to write in his style, but don't come across as nearly incoherent.

His brain is sawdust at this point

We need to spend more time protesting his golf course and DC...

Dude doesn't have a single thought in his mushy little head. It's just words bouncing around like the old screensaver.

Good job, Republicans. Quality statesmanship, that is.

motherfucker what?

Every time I see Trump being quoted this long, I am reminded of every single persuasive essay I wrote in high school where I didn't do any research at all and just bullshitted my way through.
And just like he won the election, I would usually get As on those because the content wasn't actually the thing being graded.

Follow up question, what do you think the protesters wanted?
Edit: fixed my gibberish typo
- A President who could actually answer a simple question?
  
  Oof, I fixed my typo.

This out of touch response shows EXACTLY why these types of protests aren’t enough. Didn’t even get the point across to those in power that need to change.

His statement was vegan because it's a word salad
- What are you talking about? Bullshit is an animal byproduct.

Stable fuckin genius right there everyone /slow clap

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