The unsurprising and increasingly normalized bloodlust of Donald Trump

[DonViejo]

Philip Bump 1 hr ago

In the first hour of May 29, 2020, just after midnight, fires were burning on the streets of Minneapolis. Protests over the death of George Floyd under the knee of police officer Derek Chauvin had been going on for several days and in multiple cities. Even at that late hour, the unrest in Minnesota was still being carried live on MSNBC.

Twitter was still a central part of President Donald Trump’s connection to the public at that point, so he used the social network to complain about Minneapolis’s handling of the situation and to pledge to send in the National Guard, which had already been activated. Then he offered a threat:

“These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen,” Trump wrote, shortly before 1 a.m. “Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!”

There was no real way to read this except by drawing a line from the second sentence — the military is ready — to the third: If you loot, we shoot. That, in fact, is exactly how the phrase had been used in years past.

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[NJCher]

1. yeah right

These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen,” Trump wrote

How disingenuous.

[Walleye]

2. TFG. Loves nothing more than killing people and getting people killed.

[Grasswire2]

3. that fits with the reports that he urged a bloodbath in Portland...

...shooting protesters there. We saw that info yesterday. "Just shoot them. Crack their skulls."

And golly. He sent a hit squad that took out an uncharged citizen there. A hit squad made up of deputized local LEO. Killed the fellow suspected of killing the RW protester a few days earlier. Just took him out.