Trump Calls Capitol Riots a 'Lovefest'

[babylonsister]

He's lost his marbles; has he not seen the videos?

https://politicalwire.com/2021/03/01/trump-calls-capitol-riots-a-lovefest/

Trump Calls Capitol Riots a ‘Lovefest’
March 1, 2021 at 6:42 am EST By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

Asked in a Fox News interview if he regretted how he handled the Capitol riots, Donald Trump blamed Speaker Nancy Pelosi for poor security and then boasted about the size of the crowd that was there to support him.

Said Trump: “The press doesn’t like to talk about it, but the real number was much, much bigger… It was tremendous numbers of people, not the Capitol, I’m talking about the rally itself, and it was a lovefest, it was a beautiful thing.”

[Walleye]

1. Disgusting to hear him use the word love. I hate when he says thank you, too

[PatSeg]

18. He misuses the word "love" that same way

he misuses "beautiful". He really has no idea what the words mean. "Thank you very much, thank you", drive me nuts too, as if he'd ever been grateful for anything in his sorry life.

[Cirque du So-What]

25. It's Orwellian, for sure

It’s as if he’s trying to delegitimize language itself.

[Botany]

2. Trump, "I'm talking about the rally itself, and it was a lovefest."

[BeyondGeography]

3. Wonder when he'll be asked about those "lovefesters" who said he duped them

and are now looking at prison time.

[Justice matters.]

5. Like always, orange anus couldn't care less about those suckers 'n losers. nt

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Trump contradicted himself (again)

He initially and vehemently claimed the Attack on the Capitol was Antifa, not his supporters.

The Rally and the Attack were by the same group of people.

[Tommy Carcetti]

6. He's going to insist he was only referring to the people cheering on the invasion of the Capitol;

And not the actual invaders of the Capitol themselves.

It's the "very fine people" of 2021.

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. Exactly.

[Walleye]

7. I guess that a rapist thinks that kind of violence is love

[Maru Kitteh]

8. He reveled in the bloodlust as it happened. Of course he's seen the video.

Live and since. All those people were wearing his name, flying his flag and ready to die for his benefit. It was a lovefest from his point of view. For Trump there is only Trump. It doesn’t matter if they hate and even kill anyone else, so long as they love him. That’s all that matters.

[PatSeg]

19. Yes, that's Trump's idea of a "love fest"

When people worship him. He is like an addict, who craves love and attention all the time.

[Irish_Dem]

33. Exactly. They worship him and will use violence to help him. Trump loves it.

This is the kind of violent loyalty he craves.

[PatSeg]

34. Going back to 2015 and 2016

he was encouraging violence at his rallies. It was obvious that he likes the violence and unwavering loyalty, a dream come true for such a monster. He's like a person who enjoys pit bull fights, taking a voyeuristic pleasure in watching bloody confrontations, that he takes no active part in.

[Irish_Dem]

35. Exactly. He encourages others to act out his violent fantasies.

And gets off on it.

[PatSeg]

41. But of course

He would never get involved personally. I'm quite sure he is a big wimp, all talk.

[Irish_Dem]

43. He is coward. All talk. He always hides behind other people.

[Solly Mack]

9. That man needs to go.

Define that anyway people want to define it.

That man needs to go.

[Solomon]

12. I said sometime ago he needs to be banished from the U.S. and DUers jumped all

over me at the idea. It's better than the death penalty though, which is banishment forever from the planet.

[Solly Mack]

16. He remains a danger to America.

If people really believe he incited an insurrection, and I do, and that he has also incited his cult followers to act in other violent ways, and I do, then it is stupid to pretend he has been neutralized or that he will slide into obscurity.

He has a platform - the GOP is all too willing to give him one and to keep his name in the spotlight.

He can still incite violence.

Too many people have a knack for thinking an election can cure all that ails America. They breathe a sigh of relief and then immediately start putting all the bad behind them. It drives me crazy at how ignorant that position is and how dangerous.

I enjoyed the Biden win too, but that was merely the first step. We have to keep driving the point home that without a Democratic majority in Congress, Trump and the GOP will continue to attack America's democracy.

That the threat is not over.

America is still in danger.

[quaint]

17. + infinity

[niyad]

21. Absolutely agree!

[taxi]

40. Ching

[bucolic_frolic]

10. These people need to be shunned

Don't do business with them, don't hire them, don't talk to them. Just let them go because they are already gone.

[Escurumbele]

11. The media still giving that criminal a platform

Disgusting!

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Why didn't they ask him if it was a bigger crowd than his

Inauguration?

[orangecrush]

14. It no longer matters what he says.

[PatSeg]

24. Unfortunately

As long as a great many people still listen to him, it does matter, though I think he's losing his power over the base. It sounds like his CPAC performance was not a resounding success. Americans tend to have a very short attention span and if someone isn't in their face 24/7 they often move on to something or someone else.

Now that he is unplugged from social media and is rarely seen on television, the uncanny spell could be lifting for many. I think Trump understood that and bombarded his followers with tweets and rallies, so they never had a chance to drift away. Kind of like a overly zealous suitor who pursues a woman with constant attention, never giving her a chance to rethink the relationship. In romantic comedies, it is rather sweet and sentimental, but in real life it can be creepy and stalker-like.

[orangecrush]

37. ...

"Kind of like a overly zealous suitor who pursues a woman with constant attention, never giving her a chance to rethink the relationship. In romantic comedies, it is rather sweet and sentimental, but in real life it can be creepy and stalker-like."

It is a strategy.

And like any strategy, if you use it over and over, it fails.

Another thing to consider is the way his supporters at the Capitol riot are are going to jail, he egged them on, and then left them twist in the wind.

When the sentences start coming down, many of his followers may start questioning just how far down the insurrection hole they want to follow hair fuhrer.

[PatSeg]

42. Oh yes, I agree

I think a lot of people are having second thoughts now. Its not fun and games when you are facing real jail time and especially when you leader is living the good life at his resort in Florida. Some lessons are really learned the hard way.

[Hugin]

15. They were not 'Capitol Riots', either.

It was a seditious armed insurrection.

In my mind Treason. So far, as usual, I'm in the minority.

[gratuitous]

30. Just because you're in the minority, it doesn't necessarily mean you're wrong

The one facet of reporting on the insurrection that is badly underreported is what the objective was. Why did that mob storm the Capitol? Just to take a shit on the floor and smear their shit on the walls? Just to rifle through Speaker Pelosi's office? No. There was an objective, a goal, something they were trying to accomplish. And that's gotten lost in all the sensationalist coverage of the cultural appropriator shaman idiot or the realtor woman who hired a private jet to get to Washington.

[Hugin]

31. Much of the reporting also muddies the "But, for" question, too.

"But, for" what single person or factor would this event not have occurred?

It's a legal question generally used to assign liability and/or culpability.

We all know the answer, but, the Senate was in too much of a hurry to get back to obstruction to do anything about it.

[zaj]

20. The "Manson Family" was a lovefest too.

A beautiful loving cult. That they wanted to use murder to start a race war, well that's just fake news.

[niyad]

22. INSURRECTION. NOT "riot". Do try to get it correct, politicalwire.

[babylonsister]

27. I think 'riot' applies, too. nt

[Evolve Dammit]

23. It's a barely veiled call for inceased bloody violence. He should be arrested. Still "in code"

[twodogsbarking]

26. Lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut.

I think this was from the Beverly Hillbillies. How fitting.

[Jay25]

28. If he really thought Nancy was to blame, he would have sent help to the Capital,

and then bragged about saving the day.
As beautiful as he believes his rally was, it will never compare to the beauty of him losing the 2020 election.

[thesquanderer]

32. Headline doesn't match the text

Text specifically says he called the rally--and NOT what happened at the Capitol--a lovefest. Headline says the opposite.

We have so many legit things to go after him on, I hate seeing stuff mis-used, mis-quoted, etc. which the other side just can just use to show "how dishonest the left is." It's so unnecessary and can be self-defeating.

[Trueblue1968]

36. he should be locked up forever. HARD time in the slammer

Don, the Violent Con urged violent Trump mob to attack the Capitol, National guard may need to be on guard permanently to keep his Murderous MOB from attacking lawmakers.

[IcyPeas]

38. when are they going to start the hearing on him being responsible for this insurrection?

when? silence?

is he going to get away with this too? He was 99% responsible for the insurrection.

on that thought.... when will he be held to account for denying COVID and lying to people about it? He is responsible for some of those deaths also.

[smirkymonkey]

39. What a thoroughly repulsive excuse of a human being.

God, he just makes me feel physically ill!