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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN: Trump told governors that Minnesota was "a laughingstock all over the world"
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Per audio obtained by @jaketapper, President Trump unloaded during his call with governors and law enforcement. What happened in the state of Minnesota...They were a laughingstock all over the world...Ive never seen anything like it, and the whole world was laughing."
CNN article:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/01/politics/donald-trump-race-police/index.html
"You have to dominate or you'll look like a bunch of jerks, you have to arrest and try people," the President told governors in a call from the basement White House Situation Room.
In the conversation, which also included law enforcement and national security officials, Trump also emphasized it was his belief the violence is being brought on by forces from the "radical left".
"It's a movement, if you don't put it down it will get worse and worse," Trump said. "The only time its successful is when you're weak and most of you are weak."
Trump said the "whole world was laughing at Minneapolis over the police station getting burned," referring to the city where protests began last week after the death of an unarmed black man who was being taken into police custody.
In the conversation, which also included law enforcement and national security officials, Trump also emphasized it was his belief the violence is being brought on by forces from the "radical left".
"It's a movement, if you don't put it down it will get worse and worse," Trump said. "The only time its successful is when you're weak and most of you are weak."
Trump said the "whole world was laughing at Minneapolis over the police station getting burned," referring to the city where protests began last week after the death of an unarmed black man who was being taken into police custody.
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CNN: Trump told governors that Minnesota was "a laughingstock all over the world" (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Jun 2020
OP
correct... the pot calling the kettle black.... AKA spin and deflection like others have said...nt
mitch96
Jun 2020
#19
"The only time its successful is when you're weak and most of you are weak."
Behind the Aegis
Jun 2020
#17
lame54
(35,290 posts)1. What happened in Minnesota...
Has the whole world crying you jackass
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)2. Did he call from his bunker?
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)3. Deflection again. The Dump is mistaking Minnesota for himself.
He is the world-wide laughingstock.
Baitball Blogger
(46,715 posts)16. +1
Even New Zealand is protesting!
dalton99a
(81,509 posts)4. The whole world is laughing at you, asshole
and they are fucking disgusted
mitch96
(13,904 posts)19. correct... the pot calling the kettle black.... AKA spin and deflection like others have said...nt
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)5. The only people laughing are laughing at him.
For how utterly incompetent he is that he brings the most powerful and wealthiest country in the world to its knees in less than 4 years.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,785 posts)6. Laughingstock Donnie? You ain't winning Minnesota!
Tell that to the rest of the world uniting together to support us here in Minnesota. They are not laughung! They too are angry with us.
spanone
(135,836 posts)7. trump is the laughing stock of the world.....no. one. else.
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)8. TRANSLATION: "The whole world is laughing at ME
because I still haven't figured out how to get ANYONE to love me and see me as a leader."
rocktivity
Kid Berwyn
(14,906 posts)10. Job is too big for Poor Liddle Donnie.
Poor boy.
enki23
(7,788 posts)9. "All over the world" Bolsonaro, Putin, Duterte et al.
fishwax
(29,149 posts)11. you're the laughingstock, bunker boy--go hide in the dark, Donnie
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)12. Trump, you have had that position for three and a half years.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)13. He must have read that Anne Applebaum article in The Atlantic
People all over the world are still laughing about bleach injections
He knows this
sarisataka
(18,655 posts)14. "Mr. President
with all due respect, fuck yourself with a rusty chainsaw. Sideways. "
A HERETIC I AM
(24,368 posts)15. A RUNNING rusty chainsaw
Behind the Aegis
(53,957 posts)17. "The only time its successful is when you're weak and most of you are weak."
He said from his bunker.
Well, we know irony is not dead.
no_hypocrisy
(46,114 posts)18. Now, THERE'S a persuasive argument . . . . . . .
M_Demo_M
(158 posts)20. As usual, with no self-awareness of sense of irony. NT