Donald Trump worried 'dangerous' fruits could be thrown at him by protesters, a new deposition revea

[AZLD4Candidate]

Source: Business Insider via MSN

Donald Trump worried that "dangerous" fruits could be flung at him by protesters, according to newly-released excerpts from his sworn deposition for an upcoming trial in New York.

"It's very dangerous stuff," Trump said in the deposition, invoking a fruit-basket worth of potential projectiles, including tomatoes, pineapples, and, perplexingly, bananas. "You can get killed with those things," he said.

Trump expressed his concerns while under oath in October for a lawsuit that alleges he sicced his security on protesters outside Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.

He was being asked about his past statements condoning violence at rallies, including one in 2016 when he told supporters that if anyone threw a tomato at him, they should "knock the crap out of them," and he'd pay the legal fees.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-worried-dangerous-fruits-could-be-thrown-at-him-by-protesters-a-new-deposition-reveals/ar-AAWEPFf?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=f3b77a8925284d21b4a5a27c8c309ec6

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Totally off the rails.

[CTyankee]

1. I favor pineapples, myself. They look like they could do damage.

[cstanleytech]

17. I would not throw a pineapple at Trump. Now shoving it in a certain area top end is what

should be done to him.

[canuckledragger]

31. Reminds me of something...

[cstanleytech]

41. Well, it would certainly be fitting for Trump to have to go through that for

atleast a little bit of time after all that he has done.

[Roy Rolling]

111. Defense from Fresh Fruit

[Evolve Dammit]

80. Ouch! I like it. Maybe Stormy could insert with prejudice??

[smb]

116. Instead Of A Dominatrix Outfit, Stormy Could Dress Like Carmen Miranda nt

[Evolve Dammit]

117. I'd pay to see that!

[Kittycatkat]

25. I would choose the cluster munitions his BFF Putin is using on the Ukrainians...

but that's just me.

[smb]

124. Cluster Munitions? You Mean Somebody Threw A Bunch Of Grapes At Trumpelthinskin? nt

[catbyte]

27. I'm more of a coconut person myself.

Seems like it would stun that vile thing a little more, but those prickly pineapple things could be very effective.

Hey, maybe we could make a piña colada afterward if we have any left,

[LittleWoman]

115. Pineapple is military slang for hand grenade

That kind of pineapple would certainly do a great deal of damage

[Turbineguy]

2. Maybe if he wasn't such a shitty president

Nah, that couldn't be it.

[world wide wally]

3. How about a canteloupe?

[speak easy]

9. Lemons?

[world wide wally]

32. A 20 lb watermelon?

[Evolve Dammit]

81. Gallagher style!

[The Unmitigated Gall]

4. Ace rock-thrower here.

I can get a really good range with a kiwi.

The fruit, that is. *ahem*

[Vinca]

5. I can see the headline now: "Pulped to Death By a Deadly Banana."

[AngryOldDem]

119. Slightly better than being shelled to death by a rogue elephant.

Showing my age here.

[tanyev]

6. LOL, that's why he doesn't eat fruit or vegetables.

They’re dangerous!

[smb]

123. The Way He's Carrying On, You'd Think Somebody Tried To Make Him EAT Some Fruit! nt

[secondwind]

7. What a snowflake this man is!!!!

Unbelievable!!!!

[Evolve Dammit]

83. He is a real milktoast coward. Always was. All loud mouthed spewage to try to compensate.

And making everyone else do actual "work". Such a miserable humanoid.

[Ray Bruns]

8. Reminds me of an old Monty python sketch where John Cleese

was training the guys to defend themselves from an attacker with a banana.

[Retired Engineer Bob]

19. Love John Cleese

[AZLD4Candidate]

106. I've heard of Death by Chocolate, but never death by banana.

[targetpractice]

10. Trump was also afraid of cans of soup...

Janey Godley...

[They_Live]

21. I liked that a lot.

Thank you.

[targetpractice]

50. Janey Godley is awesome (sensitive content)...

She's a Scottish comedian... Follow her on Twitter... This is her claim to fame, protesting in front of Trump's golf course resort...

Link to tweet

?s=21&t=6sUP0FRpdAFw6bPXyUwW_w

[Evolve Dammit]

84. Priceless. Love that woman

[XacerbatedDem]

44. Ty, that was great. LMAO!!!

[niyad]

68. Thank you for that bizarre memory.

[VGNonly]

11. Coconuts

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. Pineapples? Have you seen the price of pineapples lately?

Actually, I haven't, but they don't lend themselves to being thrown.

[fierywoman]

78. Now "on sale" 2 for $6 -- used to be $5 ... 20% increase...

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Well, considering TFG is nuttier than a fruitcake. . .

. . .doesn't surprise me he's afraid of fruits. And windmills.

[rurallib]

14. "perplexing bananas"? Is he admitting bananas are smarter than he is?

[SergeStorms]

73. Marjorie Taylor Greene....

is smarter than Trump. You can't get much lower on the totem pole than Empty Greene.

[oldsoftie]

15. Maybe a watermelon

[mahatmakanejeeves]

16. International terrorist organization releases videos:

#sambadasantiga
Carmen Miranda - Chica Chica Boom Chic
2,339,720 views Feb 10, 2012

CineLeonor
4.37K subscribers

É carnaval no Leonor!

#sambadasantiga

The Lady In The Tutti Frutti Hat
1,210,585 views Oct 17, 2008

Gregory May
15.6K subscribers

From 1943 Busby Berkeley Technicolor Musical, "The Gang's All Here" starring Carmen Miranda.

[AllaN01Bear]

24. cartoon wabbit causes mayhem.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

26. That's wonderful. Thank you. NT

[colorado_ufo]

39. Adorable!

[world wide wally]

38. That would make Trump freeze with fear!

A Trump horror movie

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

108. Carmen Miranda's Ghost...

...is haunting Space Station 3.

[link:

]

[sarcasmo]

18. Are plantains the perplexingly bananas?

[icnorth]

20. From the archives of the redoubtable Mrs. Doubtfire...

"A drive by fruiting, I believe."

[AllaN01Bear]

22. tomatoes are good ones too also.

[wnylib]

70. The juicy, is by ones.

[samnsara]

23. i call dibs on the dragon fruit

[NullTuples]

28. I thought we like to throw cans of soup?

Also, "dangerous" to him has a different meaning and probably has to do with his ego and image.

Imagine if there was video of him having rotten fruit thrown at him and splatting on his face.

I mean, there probably is, but it's in Putin's vault with the other one and will never see the light of day...

[Evolve Dammit]

85. we can only hope and dream

[IronLionZion]

29. It has to be something hard like coconuts or smelly like durian

what a buffoon

[TheBlackAdder]

96. Durian would freaking hurt!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

114. For this thread

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Tetrachloride]

30. "Fruit of the chicken"

[DFW]

33. Does anyone know a local store that sell Durians?

If so, I'd say, yes, Trump has something to worry about here.

Especially now that he has given everyone the idea!!

[PatSeg]

34. Oh, that's the best thing I've read all day

What a tough guy, afraid of fruit!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

35. A wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom

Little Richard - Tutti Frutti [Screen Test]
1,589,374 views Apr 23, 2015

Little Richard
70.7K subscribers

Little Richard's legendary screen test performing "Tutti Frutti" for the 1956 film “The Girl Can’t Help It”.

[Mickju]

49. Love it!

[Buckeye_Democrat]

36. Not a fruit, but I'm willing to try to...

... emulate my grandfather, who purportedly busted the hull of black walnut (when it was green) by throwing it against a drunk man's head MANY years ago. (The man had made inappropriate gestures and comments to his wife, my grandmother.)

That happened according to my father, anyway, who witnessed it as a child. He was amazed by both the accuracy and the velocity of the throw, especially since those green hulls were hard to break open even with a hammer.

I'll be nice and give Trump some distance before my wind-up.

[tavernier]

47. Oh yeah, and how about some of those choke apples?

The ones that are green and pimply looking and absolutely hard as a rock.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

51. I've never seen them!

Sounds like a good choice for Trump, though!

My father grew up on a Midwest farm that had several black walnut trees, but nobody around there had apple trees as far as I know.

[tavernier]

55. They aren't apples so I'm not sure why they are called that

They are about grapefruit size and solid all the way through. Cows will sometimes try to eat them and have been known to choke on them. I don’t think they actually have any use at all. They are not an edible fruit. I know they grow in Michigan and on my daughters farm in Indiana. The skin smells a little citrusy when you scratch it.

[findeerror]

63. Maybe Osage Oranges or hedge apples

That's what I've heard what you describe called... they aren't edible, some people use them as bug repellent in closets.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

71. Ah! Thanks!

I Google-searched "choke apples" earlier, but I gave up pretty quickly when the top search results were lousy.

Osage oranges seemed to be the best match (as another poster wrote), but I wasn't sure. I've indeed seen those several times at parks around here.

And they'd be a good choice for Trump's skull, which is probably all-bone except for a pea-sized brain in the middle.

[Evolve Dammit]

91. Those might leave a mark!

[tavernier]

122. Bingo!

Will have to try in my closets to see if they repel bugs… not a bug fan.

[usaf-vet]

37. This is the "big tough guy" who, in reality, is a snowflake. Dangerous fruit? This is the GQP hero?

[colorado_ufo]

40. Maybe a jackfruit?

[AZLD4Candidate]

43. Jackfruit for the jackass?

[Shipwack]

42. Reminds me of a song we used to sing at scout camp...

To market, to market with my brother Tim,
When somebody threw a tomato at him!
Tomatoes are soft, they don't hurt on the skin,
But this one sure did it was still in the tin!
Ha-ha, ho-ho, hee-hee.

There are several stanzas... We might have picked it up from a British troop that visited regularly.

Edited to add a link to the song... Google is amazing!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

45. I've seen that movie. He should be afraid.

"Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Killer_Tomatoes

[Cronezilla]

46. Hey, I've got just the perfect fruit for the job

growing right in my backyard- Hatchiya Persimmons! The unripe ones
will leave a bruise if thrown and a fully ripe ones will leave a
huge, sticky, orange mess! I'm going to have to wait until autumn
to restock my persimmon arsenal, though.

[llmart]

48. I swear I had to check first to see if this was from the Onion.

How many times have we had to do this on here? Each article about this buffoon gets more and more insane. Where are the men in white coats to drag him away to the funny farm?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

52. Sure. Go ahead and laugh. You won't be laughing when Antifa rolls out one of these.

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This is a highlight reel from the 2012 0TEEA Throwing Machine contest held at Granville Middle School in Granville, Ohio on November 17th.

[niyad]

102. Thank you. I see those at our annual fruitcake toss.

[PA_jen]

53. He's afraid of Vitamins & Nutrients getting into his body?

[gibraltar72]

54. And Watermelons.

[marmar]

56. Unripened large avocados?

[peppertree]

61. Perhaps he meant Jeff Sessions or Lindsey Graham

[Harker]

57. If someone threw lettuce...

he might finally wind up with a good head on his shoulders.

[FarPoint]

58. I have to ask....

Why is his attention seeking muttering considered LBN...? It only gives him a warm fuzzy feeling....

Please be responsible...don't post his nothingness.

[peppertree]

59. As craven as he is paranoid

[Initech]

60. He does know that was a 1950s Z-grade horror movie, right?

[peppertree]

62. '78

But you're right: it was a parody of '50s shlock.

And ended up being one of the pearls of the neo-schlock era (1976-86).

[bucolic_frolic]

67. In that movie, in the twirling helicopter scene

as told to me several times by someone who watched it many times, a black actor with a mustache plays Adolph Hitler. So I'm thinking Trump did watch this movie at some point. Maybe it knocked him off the rails.

[chowder66]

64. Are Sharks considered fruit?

[Harker]

79. I've never thrown a shark.

I've thrown a few fits and a party, though.

[chowder66]

97. : )

[LiberalFighter]

65. Rotten eggs and tomatoes is the preference.

[PJMcK]

66. Don't we taxpayers pay for his Secret Service protection?

He just doesn't want to sit for the deposition so he cam up with a stupid excuse.

He's such an ass.

He's also an idiot.

[TygrBright]

69. He needs to take this class:

Very helpful!

I have never successfully been injured by a would-be assassin with a banana, since completing this course.

wisely,
Bright

[MontanaMama]

72. I'd rapid fire tomatoes at that orange tub of goo.

They splatter nicely and would stain his shirt. Yup. Tomatoes. All day long.

[C Moon]

74. I had to look at the source--I thought it was Andy Borowitz! nt

[BlueJac]

75. Eggs are not fruit!

LMAO

[Warpy]

76. Dangerous fruits?

Now there's a straight line begging for a wisecrack if ever I saw one, but I'll refrain, TFG aint that witty and I don't want to make him look good.

I suppose he was worried someone would waste money on something like a pineapple. Never fear, Donny, you're not worth that much, you'd only have to dodge soft, squishy veg and rotten eggs.

[IcyPeas]

77. It's Antifa fruit!!

grown on Antifa trees.

[asiliveandbreathe]

82. I will donate my pineapple I have been nurturing..

?1

What a slug tfg..

[twodogsbarking]

86. Fructophobia It is a real thing. Fear of fruit.

[cliftoncooper]

87. Fits with his preference for Burger King, McDonalds, KFC, et al.

We know he doesn't really like eating his fruits and vegetables.

[YoshidaYui]

88. He needs to be strapped to the wall

and have Pineapples thrown at him naked.

[AZLD4Candidate]

105. Just the thought of his flabby, obese, naked body made me go instantly sterile

Especially with all that fumunda cheese he probably has with his dunlop's disease.

I would place even money he is part of the Dickie Doo club.

[niyad]

107. ewwwwwww! I think that I will be skipping dinner tonight.

[twodogsbarking]

89. Freeze it first then throw.

[vsrazdem]

90. A run-by fruiting (Mrs. Doubtfire)

Oh no, so dangerous.

[3auld6phart]

92. Seriously

I thought I was reading an Andy Borowitz artic,e. What a chicken
shit piece of excrement, a freakin’ coward. Somewhat like that
asshole from the Gulag, hiding out in the Kremlin. Pathetic.cowards.

[VMA131Marine]

93. How to defend against a person armed with a banana

[DBoon]

94. Durian may smell bad

but having it thrown at you probably won't kill you

[samplegirl]

95. I'd love to throw

A fruit a him….a big pineapple. A coconut! A few cantaloupes!

[CJW]

98. Coconuts

Coconuts

[Lulu KC]

99. Comic relief!

I know there's a dark side here, but I AM LAUGHING. Thank you!

[dalton99a]

100. Cotton Candy grapes are particularly lethal

worse than Moon Drop grapes

[Ouroborosnek]

101. A nice ripe durian

opened up would be perfect

[niyad]

103. FRUITCAKE!!! Everyone forgot FRUITCAKE! The post upthread about the

pumpkin toss reminded me of our annual fruitcake toss. Most of us would have a fruitcake or two to spare for the F'n, murdering, orange TRAITOR**.

[AZLD4Candidate]

104. Fruitcake for the fruitcake!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

109. He deserves feces and old shoes by the ton.....

just for his treatment of immigrant and refugee children......

[Bayard]

110. I laughed all the way through Rachel's description of this tonight

And as she said--this man used to have the nuclear codes.

Total buffoonish wackadoo!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

112. Trump is 'exposing his weakness to the world' by announcing fear of hecklers throwing tomatoes:

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/rachel-maddow-trump-2657227609/

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow found a great deal to mock after a transcript was released showing a deposition of Donald Trump last fall...

.In the section of transcript she read, Trump detailed his fear of being killed by a tomato throw by a heckler. Or, as The Washington Post put it, the "potentially lethal effects of projectile produce."

"With the release of this deposition in this past day, we now know a whole new thing we didn't know before about former President Trump, which is that he is apparently desperately afraid of a flying tomato," she said.

"I don't know. If I were a man in his position, I am not sure I would let the world know I had that kind of a phobia — just seems like you're it exposing your weakness to the world, right?" she continued. "But his fear of a flying tomato is apparently so all-consuming that when confronted verbally with a discussion about the possibility of somebody throwing a tomato, he immediately extrapolates that from the tomato to the threat of a flying banana and then to the threat of a flying pineapple."

[sakabatou]

113. One could call it a run-by fruiting.

[AngryOldDem]

118. Paging Carmen Miranda....

Thanks, all, for the much-needed .

Damn, he is such a fucking moron.

[bucolic_frolic]

120. Beware those Frozen Flying ASPARAGUS SPEARS!!

Vegetable Chuckuhs on the loose everywhere!!

[sheilahi]

121. Killer grapes.

You crazy fuck. And so what would it be called? A drive-by fruiting.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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

TFG is an idiot and these memes will be fun to use

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/27/trump-says-he-feared-being-pelted-with-very-dangerous-fruit-rallies/

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.