Trump says he feared being pelted with 'very dangerous' fruit at rallies

[JoanofArgh]

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.”

Trump’s 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 Trump’s 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 it’s 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]

1. Pineapples are too expensive to waste on Trump.

[qazplm135]

2. with his diet

he'd probably die if he came into contact with a fruit or vegetable so I get it.

[NightWatcher]

3. Injecting disinfectant is healthy but a tomato will kill you?

[TexasTowelie]

4. One of the few positive things that I will say about former president George W. Bush

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]

5. One of my favorite moments in politics, war, etc.

[Tommy Carcetti]

6. .............

[Wingus Dingus]

7. Yes, getting hit with a whole pineapple would hurt.

But I would think fruit-pelters like to go soft, squishy and overripe.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Guess he never took Monty Python's "How to Defend Yourself Against Fresh Fruit".

[0rganism]

9. Literally a Monty Python sketch

As the "officer" says at the end, this is way too silly.

[blm]

10. But he thinks schoolchildren should accept that bullets

sold to anyone who wants them is what makes America great.

[Hekate]

11. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

[JHB]

34. I know I'm going to miss her. A tomato ate my sister

[yellowcanine]

12. It's a drive by fruiting!

Credit to Robin Williams as Mrs. Doubtfire.

[madinmaryland]

13. I'd like to chuck some watermelons at him!

[yellowcanine]

14. Eggs are so much more fun and cheaper.

Chocolate cream pies are great also but hard to get close enough to do a good job.

[sop]

15. DeSantis just banned fruit in Florida.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

16. Overripe mango...peeled.

Because…seems appropriate.

And/or why not?

[Leith]

27. Or persimmons past their sale by date

Too expensive. I'll stick with tomatoes and eggs.

[Thomas Hurt]

17. The acid in the toms might make the orange makeup run, terribly embarrassing.

[lapfog_1]

18. I've heard that bananas can be dangerous

[myohmy2]

19. he...

...could be right

...

[allegorical oracle]

20. This is a THING with him. During the 2016 campaign, he told his audience to

beat the crap out of anyone they saw who was about to throw tomatoes at him.

[Buns_of_Fire]

21. I suppose being hit by fruit *could* kill you...

...especially if you don't take it out of the can first.

[jmbar2]

22. A well-aimed potato could do some damage

Or an onion. Make that SOB cry.

[mnmoderatedem]

23. remember after the Parkland High School shooting?

trump claimed he probably would have run inside to help save the kids.

Yet. He. is. Afraid. Of. Fruit.

[KentuckyWoman]

36. Isn't that why they need weapons in Walmart?

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]

24. No, just dangerous rotten eggs would do. Nt

[Bantamfancier]

30. As a kid on the farm.

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 didn’t have to hit them to be effective. Just get it close enough to splash them and the smell was something else.

[KentuckyWoman]

37. Brings back memories.

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]

25. Why not these?

https://i.postimg.cc/dQSFyhd8/721-D5-BA8-97-EE-4-A6-C-A707-09-DDE73663-C8.webp

[Wicked Blue]

26. I'm on the side of the fruits

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]

28. I'd love to drop hundreds of banana peels on one of his rallies

I’d pay good money to see them slip 🍌

[lame54]

29. He's afraid he might get some in his mouth

[struggle4progress]

31. "People are saying, I don't know, but many of them. Many many saying this.

There are dangerous fruits at my rallies and nuts. Dangerous fruits and nuts."

[PCIntern]

32. ...with tears in their eyes

[Wicked Blue]

33. He deserves a Durian fruit

Smithsonian Magazine:

If you’ve smelled a durian even once, you probably remember it. Even with the husk intact, the notorious Asian fruit has such a potent stench that it’s 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]

35. Mary Trump would tell us he feared being photographed being pelted by fruit at rallies more

[jmowreader]

38. Come on, people...

If you're going to "throw fruit" at Donald Trump, quit fucking around and throw coconuts at him.

[Rhiannon12866]

39. How about paper towels??

[Emile]

40. That explains why he is cowardly lacking courage!