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Former president Donald Trump said he feared protesters would hit him with tomatoes, pineapples and other very dangerous fruit at his campaign rallies, declaring in a sworn deposition that you can be killed if that happens.
Trumps comments about the potentially lethal effects of projectile produce were made public Tuesday with the release of excerpts of 4½ hours of videotaped testimony in a lawsuit filed by a group of protesters who allege that Trumps security guards assaulted them in 2015.
I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit, Trump said in the October 2021 deposition, according to a transcript of the proceedings. He added that tomatoes are bad and that some fruit is a lot worse.
But its very dangerous.
I remember that specific event, because everybody was on alert. They were going to hit they were going to hit hard, he said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/27/trump-says-he-feared-being-pelted-with-very-dangerous-fruit-rallies/
sop
(10,106 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)he'd probably die if he came into contact with a fruit or vegetable so I get it.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,970 posts)is that he had good reaction time avoiding the shoe that was thrown at him during a press conference. It appears that Trump can't even measure up to that standard which makes him a LOSER.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(43,155 posts)Wingus Dingus
(8,052 posts)But I would think fruit-pelters like to go soft, squishy and overripe.
no_hypocrisy
(46,037 posts)0rganism
(23,931 posts)As the "officer" says at the end, this is way too silly.
blm
(113,015 posts)sold to anyone who wants them is what makes America great.
Hekate
(90,564 posts)JHB
(37,157 posts)yellowcanine
(35,694 posts)Credit to Robin Williams as Mrs. Doubtfire.
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)yellowcanine
(35,694 posts)Chocolate cream pies are great also but hard to get close enough to do a good job.
sop
(10,106 posts)The Unmitigated Gall
(3,786 posts)Because
seems appropriate.
And/or why not?
Leith
(7,808 posts)Too expensive. I'll stick with tomatoes and eggs.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)lapfog_1
(29,194 posts)myohmy2
(3,142 posts)...could be right
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allegorical oracle
(2,357 posts)beat the crap out of anyone they saw who was about to throw tomatoes at him.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,158 posts)...especially if you don't take it out of the can first.
jmbar2
(4,865 posts)Or an onion. Make that SOB cry.
mnmoderatedem
(3,722 posts)trump claimed he probably would have run inside to help save the kids.
Yet. He. is. Afraid. Of. Fruit.
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)They have to get past fresh produce to get to the Little Debbie and Frosted Flakes. One just never knows when fruits and veggies might attack. Plus those liberal types hang out in produce. You know, the kind who read history books. EEEEK.
raccoon
(31,105 posts)Bantamfancier
(366 posts)Our chickens had pretty much free run of the place. We would always find an abandoned nest that had a dozen or so eggs in it and had been roasting in the summer sun for a week. Those were great for lobbing at someone cause you didnt have to hit them to be effective. Just get it close enough to splash them and the smell was something else.
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)Only whappin' my brother ever got was after he lobbed one of those on the schoolteacher's porch.
Actually he got 2. One at school and one at home. I will say, she really was abusive, to everyone. The boys had it worse.
LakeArenal
(28,806 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,821 posts)A-wop-bop-a-loo-lop a-lop-bam-boo
Tutti frutti, all rootie
Tutti frutti, wooooooooh! Tutti frutti, all rootie
Tutti frutti, all rootie
Tutti frutti, all rootie
(Carl Perkins)
PlanetBev
(4,104 posts)Id pay good money to see them slip 🍌
lame54
(35,267 posts)struggle4progress
(118,236 posts)There are dangerous fruits at my rallies and nuts. Dangerous fruits and nuts."
PCIntern
(25,491 posts)Wicked Blue
(5,821 posts)Smithsonian Magazine:
If youve smelled a durian even once, you probably remember it. Even with the husk intact, the notorious Asian fruit has such a potent stench that its banned on the Singapore Rapid Mass Transit. Food writer Richard Sterling has written its odor is best described as turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock. It can be smelled from yards away.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-does-the-durian-fruit-smell-so-terrible-149205532/
Brother Buzz
(36,388 posts)jmowreader
(50,530 posts)If you're going to "throw fruit" at Donald Trump, quit fucking around and throw coconuts at him.