Ex-president calls Hopkins’ cannibalistic Lecter ‘late, great’ while condemning ‘people who are being released into our country’
Donald Trump on Saturday praised fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter “as a wonderful man” before segueing into comments disparaging people who have immigrated into the US without permission.
The former president’s remarks to political rally-goers in Wildwood, New Jersey, as he challenges Joe Biden’s re-election in November were a not-so-subtle rhetorical bridge exalting Anthony Hopkins’ cannibalistic Lecter in Silence of the Lambs as “late [and] great” while simultaneously condemning “people who are being released into our country that we don’t want”.
Trump delivered his address to an estimated crowd of about 80,000 supporters under the shadow of the Great White roller coaster in a 1950s-kitsch seaside resort 90 miles (144.8km) south of Philadelphia.
The occasion served for Trump to renew his stated admiration for Lecter, as he’s done before, after the actor Mads Mikkleson – who previously portrayed Lecter in a television series – once described Trump as “a fresh wind for some people”.
Oh no, is Joe Biden going to take away my night vision goggles and fill in the well I keep my prisoners in too? WHO’S GOUNG TO FUCK ME??
Oh that’s right. I’d fuck me. I’d fuck me so hard.
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Read on a bit, the crowd thinned considerably as Trump was talking. He appears to be losing ground with people for his verbal diarrhea. We only need to hope its enough people either not voting or voting for biden.
Late and great? Lecter hasn’t died in fiction thus far
Again? This isn’t the first time he’s brought him up and praised him.
But whom Lector is going to eat then, if there are no illegal immigrants? Did you think of that Mr. Trump?
Is there a transcript for the full speech anywhere? I’m not going to listen to audio of Trump talking but this article feels like it’s doing a bit of cherry picking.
This comment has the whole quote. It’s usually a mistake to try and make sense out of what he says, but it kind of looks like he’s trying to invoke the image of the cannibalistic serial killer and then saying that’s the kind of criminal we’re releasing.
The full quote is given in another comment. And no, it doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, even by Donnie’s lofty standards.
I’m honestly flabbergasted that after a decade of insane Trump quotes people still think context will make them any less insane.
It’s important to give the full quotes because it further establishes that Trump and Biden are not equivalent. Biden will stumble over his words from time to time while making a coherent thought while Trump is confusing asylum with Silence of the Lambs.
I agree completely, I’m more referring to OP saying they might be cherry picking. Journalists always try to generously interpret his ramblings instead of pretending like anyone with half a brain is reading their articles and making up their mind for themselves.
I can’t seem to find audio or video on that link (mobile). So it’s even worse to hear someone talk about it but not give any sources.
When do we find out that Ronald McDonald has a worm in his brain?
Also: was BrainDead cancelled because it was just a little too real?
You couldn’t make this shit up. Republicans are worthless. Edit: mikkelson is a fucktard.
Mikkelsen’s full quote, for those who want to continue to enjoy his acting
“He’s obviously not the classic politician, that’s for sure. I can definitely laugh at some of the stuff he says but I can also go, ‘Oh my God, did he say that?’ I think he’s a fresh wind for some people, but that’s what you’re voting for, I guess, right? It’s a big job,” he said.
Since when do greasy sharts count as a “fresh wind”?!
I suppose he did hedge.
Edit: mikkelson is a fucktard.
Without any concept of where the dude stands and knowing nothing more about him than the majority of hollywood leans more left than it does right, I took that “fresh wind” thing as comparing Trump to a fart without outright saying it.
Am I wrong?
I think so. Just my opinion.
People are focused on the nonsense he’s spouting and I’m reading the full article and notice the quoted 62 year old Kelly Carter-Currier who proclaims if the right person doesn’t win, then we’re looking at WW3. Why are you waiting for a democratic process to happen when you’re not willing to accept the results unless its what you want? To which, you’re going to have a war to get it? JUST START THE FUCKING WAR. Or you know, shut up and let the rest of us that are actually wanting a better America (world) for everyone and not its current form where corporations and billionaires “win” while a majority of people work 3 jobs so they can afford to eat and sleep.
Because they’re not going to start a war. It’s just chest beating from them. Shit has gotta get a lot lot worse for even the thought of a civil war to be seriously thought about. We’re not even close to it, people are still fed, clothed, housed and they still have jobs and their TV’s and entertainment…no one is starting a war.
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He could be signaling to some cult or secret society that he will literally let them eat people if he wins (/s)
Or he’s signaling to his base that they should go all Brevik and kill brown and black people (not /s)
Or he has dementia (also not /s)
Donnie Diapers needs a diaper change…
I know the answer already, but does he not know that Hannibal is canonically a Lithuanian immigrant??
Does it matter when the immigrant is white? My money is on those immigrants being the “good ones”
I can’t remember, is Lithuania on Trump’s “shithole” list?
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I’m telling you folks, another great man persecuted by the democrats and fake news media. Clarice, what a vile woman. It gets the hose again she said.
Hannibal would eat that rude disgusting pig.
Maybe as an appetizer. I’m thinking there’s not enough brain matter in Trump’s skull to make a meal.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Donald Trump on Saturday praised fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter “as a wonderful man” before segueing into comments disparaging people who have immigrated into the US without permission.
The former president’s remarks to political rally-goers in Wildwood, New Jersey, as he challenges Joe Biden’s re-election in November were a not-so-subtle rhetorical bridge exalting Anthony Hopkins’ cannibalistic Lecter in Silence of the Lambs as “late [and] great” while simultaneously condemning “people who are being released into our country that we don’t want”.
Trump delivered his address to an estimated crowd of about 80,000 supporters under the shadow of the Great White roller coaster in a 1950s-kitsch seaside resort 90 miles (144.8km) south of Philadelphia.
Among other comments, Trump on Sunday also repeated exaggerations about having “been indicted more than the great Alphonse Capone”, the violent Prohibition-era Chicago mob boss.
Trump since the spring of 2023 has grappled with four indictments attributing more than 80 criminal charges to him for attempts to subvert the outcome of the 2020 election he lost to Biden, retaining classified materials after his presidency and hush-money payments to an adult film actor which prosecutors maintain were illicitly covered up.
Sherrill’s fellow New Jersey Democrat Andy Kim, a congressman running for the US Senate, said that generalized apathy toward government helped Trump’s support.
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