Why? Why? Why?

[FeelingBlue]

Does anyone know why on Earth DJT keeps bringing up Silence of the Lambs? I’m completely baffled by this mention even once, let alone repeatedly. I’m genuinely asking. Is he messaging? Trying to connect with a certain group? Truly crazy? Does he admire the prisoner? I never could bring myself to watch that movie and know the plot only from reading a brief description. So, what the heck?!?! Thank you.

[Klarkashton]

1. Didn't it start when he thought that one of the

Actors that played the part had complemented him? When it turned out he was wrong and that nobody complemented him he changed the story to something about 'illegals" or some such shit.

[StarryNite]

2. Because he's bat shit crazy.

[Different Drummer]

24. This is the answer. n/t

[phylny]

3. I saw a reel that suggested

since there is discussion of immigrants needing “asylum,“ he thinks that it’s an insane asylum that they’re coming from. It’s the best I got lol.

[2naSalit]

15. I have to say...

I was truly puzzled, due to not seeing the movie either, too creepy, but you may be on to it. He is that confused about words with double meanings that he probably does make that connection just as you described. I never made that connection before, I think it may be as simple as that.

[Chellee]

31. I was going to mention this.

I'm willing to bet actual money that he doesn't know that asylum has two meanings.

Trump's brain: Immigrants - asylum - insane asylum - Hannibal Lector - they're emptying out mental hospitals and dropping them off at the border - aaarrhhhggg!!!! - hair on fire.

[Irish_Dem]

4. What does Trump like about Hannibal Lecter?

Shocks and entertains his cult.

HL is a brutal ruthless criminal who got away with unthinkable crimes.
Even when jailed, people were afraid of him.

[BlueKota]

5. I wonder if he is a Dahmer fan too?

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Someone should write a book, "Serial Killers Who Eat Their Victims, and the Ex-President who Loves Them!"

[lame54]

27. Alive and well Dahmer

[Freethinker65]

6. Reference from 35 year old movie...hmm, living in the past, perhaps?

Had a thing for Jody Foster before she came out?

Most recent psychological horror film reference he could come up with while trying to ad lib about how current and with it he is?

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Asylum!

This code has been cracked. Trump doesn’t know the difference between asylum seekers at the border and insane asylums. That’s why he’s been carrying on about Venezuela emptying their insane asylums and sending them to our border. So he rants and raves about asylums and Hannibal Lecter was in one.

[gab13by13]

8. Because he believes that the people

Coming across the southern border seeking asylum, come from mental asylums, hence the reference to Hannibal Lecter.
Hard to believe he is that stupid.

[Think. Again.]

9. Dementia? Reliving his glory days in the 1980's?

Or maybe he just likes the soundtrack?

https://m.

[dweller]

10. Delilah ... 🎶

😁



✌🏻

[usonian]

11. Two possible reasons

1. A TikTok"er said that he mixes up asylum as in immigrant with asylum as in where he belongs.

He's always projecting. Nothing else, it seems.

2. As the bullet flew by, he had a premonition.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Somehow the idea that migrants are cannibals got fixed in his mind. . . . . nt

[Different Drummer]

25. You give him too much credit when you talk of something being fixed in his mind.

He is one of the people whom Dan Quayle characterized as never having a mind to lose.

[H2O Man]

13. Recommended.

That's easy. For the same reason a 12 year old wears a Michael Jordan shirt while playing basketball in his driveway.

[sboatcar]

14. He doesn't know the difference between political asylum and insane asylum

That's why he thinks Venezuela emptied out all their mental hospitals and sent them to the US

[B.See]

16. He idolizes Lecter for the same reason

his words echo those of Hitler, and why he idolizes authoritarians, and people like Orban, Putin, and Kim Jong-Un. He loves dictators, despots, and those who strike terror in others.

It's simple. When they show/tell you who they are, BELIEVE them.

[love_katz]

20. ∆∆∆∆∆THIS∆∆∆∆

You nailed it. I think he is really that horrible. He wants to make himself feel big and important by attempting to strike fear in other people. Just sick.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. It is a sign of his dementia

[Blaukraut]

18. He might have watched the movie for the first time recently

And it left an indelible impression on him.

[canetoad]

19. My favourite aunty

Being Scottish, watched Braveheart every single day in her dotage. Sometimes more than once. She knew the script by heart.

I took a tv with an inbuilt DVD player to the nursing home for her. One day she complained that it didn't work; she'd managed to insert 3 DVDs into the slot.

Aunty Mary - Scotland will be free!

[Sky Jewels]

21. I saw a theory that he doesn't know the difference between

migrants who "seek asylum" and "insane asylums" a la Hannibal Lecter, and he's equating the two. Seriously. He is that stupid.

[on edit: I see this is mentioned above]

[dalton99a]

22. Demented fixation

[Maru Kitteh]

23. What. You expect him to talk about policy or something? Lol. Seriously, in 2016

In 2016 it was the poem about the snake. I think it's just filler that he can grab off the top of his small and shrinking brain. Plus, none of them (him or his cult audience) are there to actually learn anything, so it's perfect.

It's the oratorical equivalent of Easy Cheese. Just empty, orange calories.

[cilla4progress]

26. Because

he's a wannabe cannibal?

[Blue Owl]

28. He thinks Hannibal is a real person who voted for him

[orange jar]

29. The funniest thing about this

is that both Silence of the Lambs and the Hannibal TV show have substantial fandoms made up of progressive women and LGBTQ+ individuals.

Trump is doing himself no favors when he references Hannibal Lecter.

[surfered]

30. See this previous post on this subject

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=19187250

[Shermann]

32. Trump voters place the lotion in the basket. nt

[surfered]

33. Here's a copy of that thread. I am not the author

I have done an extensive personal study of Psychopathy and Serial Killers, their motivations, and how they are tracked and discovered by policing agencies.
I have read Silence of the Lambs several times. This is just my opinion but:
I believe that Donald Trump identifies with the character of Hannibal Lecter. The character of Lecter is that of the ultimate ALPHA being.
He has, by way of his psychopathy, evolved from human to superhuman in that he has become 100% true to his animal nature. He takes what he wants, manipulates without remorse, kills without remorse, and eats his prey like a lion.
He sees himself as a lion, more cunning and intelligent than any mere human and free from moral constraint.

Donald Trump admires all of this. He WISHES he could be freed of all moral constraint, He admires and desires that state,
Donald Trump is a psychopath and if he had not been born into money and influence, he would be either dead or in jail and they would be digging up his basement looking for body parts.

The fact that he keeps trying to call our attention to his desire for this evolution by praising this twisted fictional character is very very SICK.

[Dem4life1234]

34. His brain is like Swiss cheese

[duncang]

35. His mind is stuck playing in a loop.

He heard the maga crowd laugh one time so he replays his favorite clip.

[applegrove]

36. Trump and some of his MAGA politicos as well as

some politicians championing him are psychopaths or narcissists. Trump needs to defend from that truth so he projects a cartoon version of a psychopath, Hannibal Lecture, onto Democrats by claiming they are letting psychopaths from all over the world into the country at the border. It is deflection. Projection. It is to defend the psychopaths all over MAGA and fool their cult followers into thinking evil psychopaths are a Democratic issue.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

37. BREAKING: Hannibal Lecter distances himself from Donald Trump.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Bundbuster]

38. Among many other obsessions, he's a control freak

Getting inside tRump's brain is just as precarious as analyzing Dahmer, Bundy, and Hannibal Lecter.